Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra
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Modesto Cortázar | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 28 August 1840 – 11 September 1840 | |
| Monarch | Isabella II |
| Preceded by | Valentín Ferraz |
| Succeeded by | Vicente Sancho |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra (15 June 1783, in Briviesca (Burgos) – 25 January 1862, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister.[1]
Cortázar was a member of the Progressive Party in Spain.
When the government of Valentín Ferraz y Barrau fell on 28 August 1840, he was appointed by Regent María Cristina de Borbón to form a government in which he became acting Prime Minister and also held the post of Minister of Justice. After 2 weeks, he was replaced by Vicente Sancho y Cobertores.
During the Década Moderada, he became in January 1847 President of the Congress of Deputies and in September 1847 Foreign minister in the cabinet of Florencio García Goyena.
References
- ^ M.C. de Onís (1853). Observaciones político-económicas sobre la Junta o Consejo de sres. Ministros con algunas máximas política ...: organización de las Secretarías del Despacho, de otras dependencias del Estado. Imprenta de la viuda de Antonio Yenes. pp. 131–.