José López Domínguez

Prime Minister of Spain

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6 July 1906 – 30 November 1906

José López Domínguez, (Marbella, 29 November 1829 – Madrid, 17 October 1911), was a Spanish military and politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain between 6 July and 30 November 1906. Biography As a lieutenant of the artillery, he participated in the pronunciamiento of Leopoldo O'Donnell in 1854. He was sent as observer to the Crimean War and the Second Italian War of Independence. In 1859 - 1860 he fought in the Spanish-Moroccan War and reached the rank of Colonel. He joined the Liberal Union Party, and was elected as deputy several times. Related to general Serrano, he participated with him in the Revolution of 1868 and the Battle of Alcolea, in which the loyalists under Manuel Pavía were defeated. López Dominguez was promoted to General. In 1871, he became Mariscal de campo and personal military advisor to King Amadeo I of Spain. In 1873, he was appointed commander of the Army of the North against the Carlists in the Third Carlist War, But in the same year, he was asked by Emilio Castelar to lay siege to Carthagena, where the Cantonal Revolution had broken out. He had the city intensively bombarded and on 12 January 1874 Cartagena was retaken. He then returned to the North and liberated Bilbao, which was under siege by the Carlists. In 1874, under the new Serrano government, he became captain general of Catalonia. In 1883, he was Minister of War in the Posada Herrera Government and also between 1892 and 1895 in the Sagasta Government. During the Second Melillan campaign, he became Captain-General and was also representative of Malaga in the Spanish Senate, a chamber of which he became the President between 1905 and 1907. In July 1906, aged 77, he became Prime Minister of Spain with a government supported by José Canalejas. The first months, he was also Minister of War. After a plot within his own party, led by Segismundo Moret, he was forced to resign after 5 months. After his resignation, he retired from politics and died 5 years later in Madrid. In 1908, he was given the Toison de Oro, or Order of the Golden Fleece. Sources Links (in Spanish) Biografias y vidas (in Spanish) Expediente personal del Senador D. José López Domínguez, por la provincia de Málaga y por derecho propio on the site of the Spanish Senat Political offices Preceded by Segismundo Moret Prime Minister of Spain 6 July – 30 November, 1906 Succeeded by Segismundo Moret Preceded by Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero President of the Senate 1905–1907 Succeeded by Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero vtePrime ministers of SpainActing prime ministers shown in italics.Queen Isabella II (1833–1868) Martínez de la Rosa Toreno Álava Álvarez Mendizábal Istúriz Calatrava Espartero Bardají Heredia-Spínola Frías Alaix Pérez de Castro A. González Ferraz Cortázar Sancho Espartero Ferrer A. González Rodil J. M. López Gómez Becerra Olózaga González Bravo Narváez Miraflores Narváez Sotomayor Pacheco Salamanca García Goyena Narváez Clonard Bravo Murillo Roncali Lersundi Sartorius Mendigorría Rivas Espartero O'Donnell Narváez Armero Istúriz O'Donnell Arrazola Mon Narváez O'Donnell Narváez González Bravo Havana Democratic Sexennium (1868–1874) Madoz Serrano Prim Topete Serrano Ruiz Zorrilla Malcampo Sagasta Topete Serrano Mendigorría Ruiz Zorrilla Figueras Pi Salmerón Castelar Serrano Sierra Bullones Sagasta The Restoration (1874–1931) Cánovas Jovellar Martínez Campos Sagasta Posada Azcárraga Silvela Fernández-Villaverde Maura Montero Moret López Domínguez Vega de Armijo Canalejas García Prieto Romanones Dato Maura Sánchez de Toca Bugallal Sánchez-Guerra Primo de Rivera Berenguer Aznar-Cabañas Second Republic (1931–1939) Alcalá-Zamora Azaña Lerroux Martínez Barrio Samper Chapaprieta Portela Barcía Casares Martínez Barrio Giral Largo Negrín Spain under Franco (1936–1975) Franco Carrero Blanco Fernández-Miranda Arias Since 1975 Arias Santiago Suárez Calvo-Sotelo F. González Aznar Zapatero Rajoy Sánchez Authority control General Integrated Authority File (Germany) ISNI 1 VIAF 1 WorldCat National libraries Spain France (data) Catalonia United States Other Faceted Application of Subject Terminology SUDOC (France) 1