Preceded by Niceto Alcala-Zamora Nationality Spanish Profession politician, journalist Role Spanish Politician Succeeded by Manuel Azana | Preceded by Alejandro Lerroux Political party Republican Union Party Name Diego Barrio Party Republican Union Party | |
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Preceded by Santiago Casares Quiroga Born 25 November 1883
Seville, Spain ( 1883-11-25 ) Died January 1, 1962, Paris, France | ||
Diego Martínez Barrio, último presidente de la II República española
Diego Martinez Barrio (25 November 1883, Seville – 1 January 1962) was a Spanish politician during the Second Spanish Republic, Prime Minister of Spain between 9 October 1933 and 26 December 1933 and was briefly appointed again by Manuel Azana after the resignation of Santiago Casares Quiroga, on 19 July 1936 - three days after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. From 16 March 1936 to 30 March 1939 Martinez was President of the Cortes. In 1936, he briefly was interim President of the Second Spanish Republic from 7 April to 10 of May.
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Barrio was born in Seville. A member of the Radical Republican Party, he was the Minister in the Alejandro Lerroux government, although later he left the party due to his dissatisfaction with the politics of Lerroux.
Martinez consequently founded and led the Republican Union Party and participated in the Spanish Popular Front, being elected to government in 1936. He led the integration of the Republican Union Party into the Popular Front, being elected the speaker of the Cortes (Spanish Parliament). In February 1939, he rejected to replace Manuel Azana as president of the Republic. He fled the country after Francisco Franco came to power in 1939.
He was the Grand Master of the Grande Oriente Espanol from 1929 to 1934.
After the fall of the Republic he went into exile, first to France and then to Mexico where in 1945 he was designated president of the Republic in exile until 1962. Martinez finally returned to Paris, where he died.
In 2000, his remains were moved to Seville.