Marcelo de Azcarraga y Palmero
| Marcelo de Azcárraga Ugarte y Palmero-Versosa de Lizárraga | |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
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In office August 8, 1897 – October 4, 1897 |
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| Monarch | Alfonso XIII of Spain |
| Preceded by | Antonio Cánovas del Castillo |
| Succeeded by | Práxedes Mateo Sagasta |
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In office October 23, 1900 – March 6, 1901 |
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| Monarch | Alfonso XIII of Spain |
| Preceded by | Francisco Silvela y de le Vielleuze |
| Succeeded by | Práxedes Mateo Sagasta |
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In office December 16, 1904 – January 25, 1905 |
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| Monarch | Alfonso XIII of Spain |
| Preceded by | Antonio Maura |
| Succeeded by | Raimundo Fernandez |
| Minister of Spanish Royal Navy | |
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In office October 23, 1900 – October 31, 1900 |
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| Preceded by | Farncisco Silvela |
| Succeeded by | José Ramos Izquierdo |
| Minister of War of Spain | |
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In office July 5, 1890 – December 11, 1892 |
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| Preceded by | Eduardo Bermúdez Reina |
| Succeeded by | José López Domínguez |
| Personal details | |
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Marcelo de Azcárraga Palmero September 1, 1832 Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | May 30, 1915 (aged 82) Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Liberal-Conservative Party |
| Alma mater | Royal University of Santo Tomas, Bachelor of Laws |
Marcelo de Azcárraga Ugarte y Palmero-Versosa de Lizárraga, hidalgo del condado de Lizárraga (September 1, 1832 – May 30, 1915) was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Spain following the restoration of the Spanish monarchy. Azcárraga was also the only Spanish Prime Minister of Filipino descent.
Azcárraga was born in 1832, in Manila in the Spanish East Indies, to General José de Azcárraga y Ugarte, a native of Vizcaya, Spain, a bookshop owner in Escolta, Manila, and to María Palmero Versosa, a Mestiza from Albay.
General José Azcárraga had many sons and daughters. Azcárraga was the second of the family's children. He studied law in the Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila then entered the Nautical School or Escuela Nautica De Manila/Presently Philippine Merchant Marine Academy), where he was awarded the first prize in Mathematics. He was sent to Spain by his father to enter the military academy and soon earned the rank of Captain in three years. Due to his services against the O'Donnell revolution in Spain, he was promoted to Major.
At the age of 23, he was awarded the Cross of San Fernando, which is a pension grant. He was sent to various colonies of Spain, including Mexico, Cuba, and Santo Domingo. Afterwards, he returned to Cuba and married one of the daughters of the wealthy Fesser family, owner and founder of Banco y Casa de Seguros Fesser, one of the biggest banks of Cuba, who allegedly gave him £20,000 on the day of his marriage.. He was the husband of Margarita Fesser y Diago, a daughter of Edward also known as Don Eduardo Fesser y Kirchnair of the United States and Micaela Diago y Tato of Havana. They owned the Almacenes de Regla (Regla Warehouse) and Banco de Comercio and all the rail lines between Regla, Cuba and Matanzas, Cuba, then known as the Ferrocaril de la Bahia de la Habana. Almacenes de Regla, founded in 1843 with initial capital of 150,000 Cuban pesos, was so large that it stored half of all of Cuba's sugar production, and by 1853, had increased its original capital ten fold.
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