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Segismundo
Moret (1838-1913), Spanish politician, the government's
president (1905-1906; 1906; 1909-1910), as well as minister
in numerous occasions during the Democratic Sexenio
and the Restoration, period this last one in which developed
their main government work as outstanding leader of
the Liberal Party.
DEMOCRATIC SEXENIO: FIRST MINISTERIAL POSITIONS
Born in Cádiz June of 1838, 2 he studied right
in the Central University of Madrid and in 1858 it passed
to carry out the Class of Institutions of Treasury.
In October of 1863 it was elected deputed by first time.
It got a bench again in January of 1869, in the first
Constituent Cortes of the Democratic Sexenio, after
the victory of the revolution of 1868 that had dethroned
the queen Isabel II. Member of most parliamentarian
that you/they formed the main parties liberal non conservatives
(Liberal Union, Democratic Party and Progressive Party),
it integrated the commission in charge of editing the
one that must become the Constitution of 1869.
In March of 1870 it carried out for first time a government
work, in the cabinet presided over by the general Juan
Prim, as minister of Overseas (I load from the one that
abolished the slavery in Puerto Rico, to the time that
promoted a bigger autonomy for the island), as well
as of Treasury from December 2. That same year, the
provisional governments formed respectively by John
the Baptist Collide you and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
after the attack that cost the life to Prim, designated
Moret minister of Treasury again, but the wallet of
Overseas only occupied it up to December 27. The general
and the government's president Francisco Serrano, duke
of the Tower, counted on him as minister of Treasury
from January of 1871, but six months later he forced
him to resign for presumed financial irregularities.
Soon after ambassador was named in Great Britain, function
that exercised shortly before being devoted to his own
business in London, aided in his family relationships
(his second last name was Prendergast, of British origin).
RESTORATION: LIBERAL MINISTER
He/she returned to Spain at the beginning of the Restoration
and of XII Alfonso's reign, in 1875, year in which the
Party Democratic-monarchist was founded which finished
being integrated in the Liberal Party Fusionista, later
the Liberal Party, led by Sagasta. He/she returned to
the Congress of the Deputies in 1879 and to the government
from October of 1883 until January of 1884, when Posed
José Herrera minister of Government designated
him.
Initiate María's regency Cristina of Habsburgo-Lorena
after their husband's death, the King, was the first
government's of the same one part, headed by Sagasta,
in which was the responsible for the external relationships
as minister of State (November of 1885-June of 1888),
and, also, minister of Government (June of 1888-July
of 1890).
It exercised different ministerial positions in other
three governments of Sagasta among December of 1892
again (when it passed to carry out for first and only
time the Ministry of Development, until March of 1894)
and December of 1902 (when it occupied for penultimate
time the Ministry of Government, position that carried
out in the same government from March until July of
1901 and again starting from March of 1902). During
those ten years it was also minister of State (April
of 1893-November of 1894) and of Overseas (October of
1897-May of 1899). In that same period, during which
most of the king's age took place XIII Alfonso, it promoted
the creation of the Institute of Social Reformations,
embryo of the future Ministry of Work. After the death
of Sagasta at the beginning of 1903, he/she faced without
success Eugenio Montero Ríos for the headquarters
of the Liberal Party.
PRESIDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT
December 1 1905 were able to consent to the government's
presidency, but it was forced to resign July 6 from
1906 when not having most enough in the Cortes, although
it carried out shortly again and in equals conditions
so high position from November 30 up to December of
that same year 4. After the dramatic events of the Tragic
Week in 1909, October 21 reached the government's presidency
again, at the time that carried out the wallet of Government,
but again he/she must resign February 9 from the following
year when not getting the liberal support that allowed
him to achieve the breakup of the Cortes and a new convocation
with the one that to obtain a parliamentary majority
that supported their project.
At the end of 1912, it exercised their last political
activity, when he was elected president of the Congress
of the Deputies. It died January 28 1913 in Madrid.
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