Miguel Maura

Miguel Maura Gamazo (13 December 1887 – 3 July 1971) was a Spanish politician who served as the minister of interior in 1931 being the first politician to hold the post in the Second Spanish Republic.^[1] He was the founder of the Conservative Republican Party.^[2]

Miguel Maura
Minister of Interior
In office April 1931 – 14 October 1931
Prime Minister	Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Personal details
Born	13 December 1887 Madrid, Spain
Died	3 July 1971(1971-07-03) (aged 83) Zaragoza, Spain
Political party	Conservative Republican Party
Parent	Antonio Maura (father)

Early life and education

Miguel Maura was born in Madrid on 13 December 1887.^[3] His father was Antonio Maura who was among the Prime Ministers of Spain.^[1][4] His elder brother, Gabriel, also was a politician.^[1]

Miguel Maura received a degree in law.^[3]

Career

Following his graduation Maura worked at the city council in Madrid.^[3] Then he was elected as a member of the parliament in 1916 and 1919 representing the province of Alicante.^[3] In April 1931 he was made a member of the Republican Revolutionary Committee and also, was appointed minister of interior in the provisional government.^[1][5] Maura and the Prime Minister Niceto Alcalá-Zamora resigned from the office on 14 October that year.^[6]

In 1932, he founded a conservative political party, the Conservative Republican Party.^[2]

Later years and death

Maura left Spain after the civil war and went into exile in Paris.^[7] While in exile he met José Antonio de Sangróniz who was serving as the representative of the Spanish ruler, Francisco Franco, to form a transitional government of national unity in 1944.^[8] However, his initiative was not fruitful.^[8]

He died in Zaragoza on 3 June 1971.^[3]

See also

• Ministry of the Interior (Spain)

References

1. Gerald Blaney Jr (2007). "Keeping Order in Republican Spain, 1931–36". In Gerald Blaney Jr (ed.). Policing Interwar Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 33, 60. doi:10.1057/9780230599864_3. ISBN 978-1-4039-9264-2.
2. Stanley G. Payne (1993). Spain's First Democracy: The Second Republic, 1931-1936. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-299-13674-1.
3. "Miguel Maura Gamazo" (in Spanish). Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
4. Morgan Hall (1999). "Work in Progress The Court of Alfonso XIII and the Crisis of the Bourbon Restoration in Spain, 1902–1931". The Court Historian. 4 (3): 260. doi:10.1179/cou.1999.4.3.009.
5. Julián Casanova (2010). The Spanish Republic and Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-139-49057-3.
6. Richard Robinson (1971). "The Parties of the Right and the Republic". In Raymond Carr (ed.). The Republic and the Civil War in Spain. London: Palgrave. p. 50. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-00058-6_4. ISBN 978-1-349-00060-9.
7. Anna Lane Lingelbach (February 1945). "What hope for Spain?". Current History. 8 (42): 138. JSTOR 45306650.
8. David J. Dunthorn (2000). Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940–1950. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 39. doi:10.1057/9781403919441. ISBN 978-0-333-91796-1.

External links

• Media related to Miguel Maura at Wikimedia Commons