José López Domínguez Explained

José López Domínguez
Office:Prime Minister of Spain
Term Start:6 July 1906
Term End:30 November 1906
Predecessor:Segismundo Moret
Successor:Segismundo Moret
Birthname:José López Domínguez
Nationality:Spanish
Signature:Firma de José López Domínguez.svg
Honorific Prefix:The Most Excellent
Monarch2:Alfonso XIII
Office2:President of the Senate of Spain
Predecessor2:Marquess of Pidal
Termstart2:9 October 1905
Termend2:6 July 1906
Successor2:Eugenio Montero Ríos
Office3:Under Secretary of the Presidency
1Namedata3:Francisco Serrano
1Blankname3:Regent
2Blankname3:Prime Minister
2Namedata3:Fracisco Serrano
Juan Prim
3Blankname3:Minister of Grace and Justice
3Namedata3:Antonio Romero Ortiz
Cristóbal Martín de Herrera
Monarch4:Alfonso XII
Monarch5:Alfonso XIII
Monarch6:Alfonso XIII
Office4:Minister of War of Spain
Termend3:26 June 1869
Termstart3:10 October 1868
Predecessor3:Isidoro Lora
Successor3:Feliciano Herreros de Tejada
Termstart4:13 October 1883
Termend4:18 January 1884
Termstart5:11 December 1892
Termend5:23 March 1895
Termstart6:6 July
Termend6:15 October 1906
Primeminister4:José Posada Herrera
Predecessor4:Arsenio Martínez-Campos
Successor4:Marquis of Miravalles
Predecessor5:Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero
Predecessor6:Agustín de Luque y Coca
Successor6:Agustín de Luque y Coca
Primeminister5:Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Successor5:Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero
Primeminister6:Himself
Office7:Minister of the Navy of Spain
Termstart7:11 December
Termend7:14 December 1892
Monarch7:Alfonso XIII
Primeminister7:Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Predecessor7:José María Beránger
Successor7:Pascual Cervera y Topete
Office8:Captain General of Catalonia
Termstart8:20 July
Termend8:31 December 1874
President8:Francisco Serrano
Predecessor8:Francisco Serrano Bedoya
Successor8:Arsenio Martínez Campos

José López Domínguez (29 November 1829, in Marbella – 17 October 1911, in Madrid), was a Spanish military officer and politician who was 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 a 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 Cartagena, 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, between 1892 and 1895, in the Sagasta government.

During the Second Melillan campaign, he became captain-general and was also the 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. In 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 five months. After his resignation, he retired from politics

In 1908, he was given the Toison de Oro, or Order of the Golden Fleece.

He died on 17 October 1911 in Madrid.

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