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Eduardo Dato (1856-1921), Spanish politician,
the government's president (1913-1915; 1917; 1920-1921).
he/she was born August of 1856, 12 in The Coruña.
Graduate in Right for the Central University of Madrid,
reached great reputation in the exercise of the legal
profession. From the beginnings of their political career
it belonged to Antonio's Conservative Party Cánovas
of the Castle, and it was chosen per time first deputy
in 1884, at the end of XII Alfonso's reign. During the
widow's regency of this, María Cristina of Habsburgo-Lorena,
joined, starting from 1895, in the conservative group
led by Francisco Silvela who during her first cabinet
minister of Government named him (March of 1899-October
of 1900), I load from which impelled the first legislation
of social character of the period of the Restoration.
After the king's access XIII Alfonso to most of age,
was part of the last cabinet presided over by Silvela,
in quality of minister of Grace and Justice, from December
of 1902 until July of 1903. That same year it accepted
Antonio's conservative headquarters Maura and, next,
it occupied different political positions, as the governorship
of Madrid (1907) or the presidency of the Congress of
the Deputies (1907-1908). In 1913, however, it broke
up with Maura when accepting the regal responsibility
of forming government October of that year 27, what
supposed the fracture of the Conservative Party among
their followers (qualified of “suitable”)
and the mauristas, followers of that. As the government's
president, he/she declared the Spanish neutrality in
the recently begun I Guerra World cup. In that its first
cabinet that lasted up to December of 1915, 9 carried
out also, again, the Ministry of Grace and Justice between
October of 1914 and January of the following year.
He/she presided over the government again starting from
June of 1917, 11 and he/she must face the triple crisis
caused by the creation of the Military Meetings, the
general strike of August and the acquaintance's convocation
as Assembly of Parliamentarian. It accepted the activity
of the first ones whose help had to repress the second
vigorously, and it negotiated a solution of commitment
with Francesc Cambó, the politician Catalan leader
of the mentioned Assembly.
After concluding their second government headquarters
November of 1917, 1 it passed to exercise the Ministry
of State (responsible for the external relationships)
in the second concentration government, fruit of the
mentioned crisis of 1917, presided over by Maura (March-November
of 1918). May 5 1920 returned to the government's presidency,
from which continued with their reformist work in social
matter (like sample the creation of the Ministry of
Work three days after the formation of the cabinet),
although it combatted with expeditious methods to the
anarchist pistolerismo in Barcelona. March of 1921,
8 when it still exercised the headquarters of the cabinet
(in which occupied Marina's Ministry also), it was murdered
in Madrid by three gunmen Catalan anarcosindicalistas.
Their widow received from XIII Alfonso duchess's of
Fact title, with Greatness of Spain, in recognition
to the public work deployed by the deceased who, from
1910, she was member of the Academy of Sciences Morales
and Political.
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