José García-Margallo y Marfil
| José García-Margallo y Marfil | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation | |
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In office 22 December 2011 – 4 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by | Trinidad Jiménez |
| Succeeded by | Alfonso Dastis |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil 13 August 1944 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | People's Party |
| Alma mater |
University of Deusto Harvard University |
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (born 13 August 1944) is a Spanish politician. Between 2011 and 2016, he served as Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Previously García-Margallo was a Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, part of the European People's Party and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He was also a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
García-Margallo was born in Madrid. In 1960, he joined the Young Spanish Monarchists. He graduated in Law and Economics from the University of Deusto in Bilbao (1965) and subsequently received a master's degree in Law (LLM) from Harvard University (1972).
In 1976, Margallo was one of the founding members of the center-right People's Party (Partido Popular), a party unrelated to the current party of the same name. In 1977, that party joined others in forming the Union of the Democratic Centre, a coalition which won the first democratic elections of the modern era in Spain and formed the government from 1977 to 1982. At the 1977 election, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies as member for the single member district of Melilla and was re-elected in 1979, although he lost his seat at the 1982 election to the PSOE.
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