José Tomás y Piera
| Josep Tomàs i Piera | |
|---|---|
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| Minister of Labor, Health and Social Welfare | |
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In office 4 September 1936 – 4 November 1936 |
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| Preceded by | Juan Lluhí |
| Succeeded by |
Anastasio de Gracia (Labor and Planning) Federica Montseny (Health and Social Policy) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 August 1900 Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 9 January 1976 (aged 75) Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Occupation | Lawyer, politician |
Josep Tomàs i Piera (Spanish: José Tomás Piera, 6 August 1900 – 9 January 1976) was a Catalan lawyer and politician. He became active in politics, and was elected to the Spanish legislature in 1933 on the platform of the Republican Left of Catalonia. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) he was briefly Minister of Labor, Health and Social Welfare in the first government of Francisco Largo Caballero, before being made Spanish consul in Montreal, Canada. After the war he lived in exile in Mexico, where he was a leader of the Catalan community.
Josep Tomàs i Piera was born in Barcelona on 6 August 1900. His parents were Josep Tomàs i Boix and Àngela Piera i Trias, He obtained a degree in Law at the University of Barcelona in 1920. He became active in politics as a member of the Casino Regionalista de la Bordeta, where he was librarian. In 1921 he married Rosa Pons i Millet. They had four children.
Tomàs was a member of Republican Action of Catalonia (Acció Republicana de Catalunya, ARC), a party created by left-wing members who split from Catalan Action (Acció Catalana, AC), during the 1923–30 dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera. In 1930 he represented the ARC in the Revolutionary Committee of Catalonia (Comitè Revolucionari de Catalunya), which brought together various political groups opposed to the dictatorship. In the early part of 1931 he participated in the process of recombining the ARC and AC, leading to the formation of the Catalan Republican Party (Partit Catalanista Republicà, PCR). He ran in the municipal elections of April 1931 for the 7th district of Barcelona, but was not elected.
With the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic the PCR announced its final organization. In May 1931 Tomàs joined the executive council of the PCR, holding this position until the end of 1932. He was a candidate in the June 1931 elections for the Constituent Assembly on the PCR platform, but was not elected. He ran for election to the Parliament of Catalonia in the elections of November 1932, but did not succeed. In 1932 he was one of the founders of the Executive Committee for Catalanization, which aimed to ensure that advertisements and shop signs were in Catalan.
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