José López Domínguez

José López Domínguez (29 November 1829, in Marbella – 17 October 1911, in Madrid), was a Spanish military officer and politician who was prime minister of Spain between 6 July and 30 November 1906.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal family name is Domínguez.

The Most Excellent José López Domínguez
Prime Minister of Spain
In office 6 July 1906 – 30 November 1906
Monarch	Alfonso XIII
Preceded by	Segismundo Moret
Succeeded by	Segismundo Moret
President of the Senate of Spain
In office 9 October 1905 – 6 July 1906
Monarch	Alfonso XIII
Preceded by	Marquess of Pidal
Succeeded by	Eugenio Montero Ríos
Under Secretary of the Presidency
In office 10 October 1868 – 26 June 1869
Regent	Francisco Serrano
Prime Minister	Fracisco Serrano Juan Prim
Minister of Grace and Justice	Antonio Romero Ortiz Cristóbal Martín de Herrera
Preceded by	Isidoro Lora
Succeeded by	Feliciano Herreros de Tejada
Minister of War of Spain
In office 13 October 1883 – 18 January 1884
Monarch	Alfonso XII
Prime Minister	José Posada Herrera
Preceded by	Arsenio Martínez-Campos
Succeeded by	Marquis of Miravalles
In office 11 December 1892 – 23 March 1895
Monarch	Alfonso XIII
Prime Minister	Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Preceded by	Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero
Succeeded by	Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero
In office 6 July – 15 October 1906
Monarch	Alfonso XIII
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Agustín de Luque y Coca
Succeeded by	Agustín de Luque y Coca
Minister of the Navy of Spain
In office 11 December – 14 December 1892
Monarch	Alfonso XIII
Prime Minister	Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Preceded by	José María Beránger
Succeeded by	Pascual Cervera y Topete
Captain General of Catalonia
In office 20 July – 31 December 1874
President	Francisco Serrano
Preceded by	Francisco Serrano Bedoya
Succeeded by	Arsenio Martínez Campos
Personal details
Born	José López Domínguez
Nationality	Spanish
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Biography

As a lieutenant of the artillery, he participated in the pronunciamiento of Leopoldo O'Donnell in 1854. He was sent as observer to the Crimean War and the Second Italian War of Independence. In 1859 - 1860 he fought in the Spanish-Moroccan War and reached the rank of colonel.

He joined the Liberal Union Party and was elected as a deputy several times. Related to General Serrano, he participated with him in the Revolution of 1868 and the Battle of Alcolea, in which the loyalists under Manuel Pavía were defeated. López Dominguez was promoted to general.

In 1871, he became mariscal de campo and personal military advisor to King Amadeo I of Spain. In 1873, he was appointed commander of the Army of the North against the Carlists in the Third Carlist War, but in the same year, he was asked by Emilio Castelar to lay siege to Cartagena, where the Cantonal Revolution had broken out. He had the city intensively bombarded and, on 12 January 1874, Cartagena was retaken. He then returned to the north and liberated Bilbao, which was under siege by the Carlists.

In 1874, under the new Serrano government, he became captain general of Catalonia.

In 1883, he was minister of war in the Posada Herrera government and, between 1892 and 1895, in the Sagasta government.

During the Second Melillan campaign, he became captain-general and was also the representative of Malaga in the Spanish senate, a chamber of which he became the president between 1905 and 1907.

In July 1906, aged 77, he became prime minister of Spain with a government supported by José Canalejas. In the first months, he was also minister of war. After a plot within his own party, led by Segismundo Moret, he was forced to resign after five months. After his resignation, he retired from politics

In 1908, he was given the Toison de Oro, or Order of the Golden Fleece.

He died on 17 October 1911 in Madrid.

Sources

External links

• (in Spanish) Biografias y vidas
• (in Spanish) Expediente personal del Senador D. José López Domínguez, por la provincia de Málaga y por derecho propio on the site of the Spanish Senat

Political offices
Preceded by Segismundo Moret	Prime Minister of Spain 6 July – 30 November, 1906	Succeeded by Segismundo Moret
Preceded by Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero	President of the Senate 1905–1907	Succeeded by Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero