José Calvo Sotelo
| José Calvo Sotelo | |
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Calvo Sotelo over 1930's
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| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 3 December 1925 – 21 January 1930 |
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| Leader | Miguel Primo de Rivera |
| Preceded by | José Corral Larre |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Moreno Zuleta |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 1919 – 1920; 1934 – 1936 |
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| Constituency | Carballino; Orense |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 May 1893 Tui, Spain |
| Died | 13 July 1936 (aged 43) Madrid, Spain |
| Resting place | Almudena cemetery |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Renovación Española |
| Other political affiliations |
Maurist |
| Spouse(s) | Enriqueta Grondona |
| Relations | Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo (brother) Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (nephew) |
| Occupation | politician, jurist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
José Calvo Sotelo (6 May 1893 – 13 July 1936) was a Spanish politician, minister of Finance during the Dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and a leading figure of the anti-republican radical right during the Second Republic. His assassination in July 1936 by a unit of the Guardia de Asalto was an immediate prelude to the triggering of the military coup plotted since February 1936 whose partial failure marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Calvo Sotelo was born on 6 May 1893 in Tui, Pontevedra, to Pedro Calvo y Camina and Elisa Sotelo Lafuente.
Calvo Sotelo, having just received his degree in Law, moved to the capital, Madrid and joined in 1913 a maurist circle in the Ateneo where he hanged with other members of the Maurist Youth such as Melchor Fernández Almagro, Pío Zabala, Antonio Ballesteros Beretta, Pío Ballesteros Álava, Quintiliano Saldaña, Manuel Palacios Olmedo, Rogerio Sánchez and Fernando Suárez de Tangil. He became Secretary of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of the Ateneo Mercantil de Madrid and university professor of the Universidad Central. He was a member of Antonio Maura's Conservative Party. He first served as an administrative officer in the Ministry of Grace and Justice.
In the 1919 election to the Congress of Deputies, despite Maura having in mind the plan of not presenting a Maurista in the district of Carballino in exchange for a seat in another district, a 25 years old Calvo Sotelo ended up imposing his will of presenting himself as candidate. Challenging mainstream conservative candidate Leopoldo García Durán, follower of Gabino Bugallal (Count of Bugallal), Calvo Sotelo finally obtained the seat in the election.
In 1922 he was made civil governor of Valencia.
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