Jose Sánchez Guerra

Jose Sánchez Guerra Martinez (Córdoba, June 28th 1859 - Madrid, January 26th 1935) was a Spanish politician there. He became President of the Council of Ministers in 1922.

Lawyer and journalist, it directed the publications the lberia (1885), Revista de España (1888) there El Español (1898)

In 1886, it started its political career as a Député of Cabra (Córdoba) under the colors of the Liberal party of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. It joined, thereafter, the Conservative party of Antonio Maura. Between 1903 and 1904, it was named Minister of Interior Department and Town and country planning in 1908. It also occupied the station of Gouverneur of the Bank of Spain between July and December 1903, then between January 1907 and September 1908.

During the various crises which the Conservative party passed through, Sánchez Guerra kept away, although it acceptat again the load of the Ministry for the Interior in 1913-15 and 1917, in the governments chaired by Eduardo Dato. The death of this one, several conservative governments followed one another including one chaired, between March and December 1922, by Jose Sanchez Guerra. In its government conservatives maurists and members of the Lliga Catalane found themselves. It tried to put an end to the employers' Pistolerismo with Barcelona by relieving the civil Gouverneur Severiano Martínez Anido, considered to be too tolerant towards the Pistoleros and severe repressor of the groups Anarchistes inhabitant of Barcelona. The assassination of Dato had given wings to Martinez Anido which had been posed like one of the main obstacles to the re-establishment of social peace. But the movements around the Rapport Picasso, which informed on the disaster of Annual (Morocco, Guerre of Rif), precipitated its fall.

With the introduction of the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Jose Sanchez Guerra entered the opposition. He initially criticized it before exiling himself in France in 1927. He returned to Valence (Spain) the January 29th 1929 to direct a revolutionary action against the dictator who showed a resounding failure. Refusing to flee, it was stopped but the courts released it. Its firm position in favor of the Constitution was one of the factors which contributed to the discredit of the dictatorship and of the Monarchie which of it was accessory.

In spite of its criticism towards the position of Alphonse XIII, after the fall of the government Dámaso Berenguer, it accepted the request of the king and tried to tie a pact with the members of the Republican Committee which it solicited with the Modelo prison where they were held. Although he was elected Député of the preserving group favorable to the République with the elections of the the Cortes of the June 28th 1931, he had to withdraw political life for health reasons.

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