Eduardo Ortega y Gasset

Spanish lawyer and politician (1882–1964)
Eduardo Ortega y Gasset
69th Attorney General of the Republic
In office
December 1936 – November 1937
Civil Governor of Madrid
In office
April 1931 – June 1931
Personal details
Born11 April 1882
Madrid, Spain
Died25 February 1965
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer
  • journalist

Eduardo Ortega y Gasset (1882–1965) was a Spanish politician, journalist and lawyer.

Biography

Born in Madrid on 11 April 1882.[1] He was the older brother of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.[2]

He became a member of the Congress of Deputies after the 1910 general election, in representation of the electoral district of Coín (province of Málaga). He joined the Liberal fraction.[3] He renovated his seat at the 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1923 elections.[4]

He joined the Freemasonry in 1922.[1] During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Ortega y Gasset self-exiled to Paris; he became there a close acquaintance of Miguel de Unamuno,[5] collaborating along the latter and Blasco Ibáñez in the España con Honra magazine.[6] He was one of the founders of the Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS) in 1929.[7]

He was among the signatories of the Pact of San Sebastián on 17 August 1930.[8]

On 15 April 1931, immediately after the proclamation of the Second Republic, he was appointed Civil Governor of the Province of Madrid.[9] In June 1931, he was replaced as civil governor by Emilio Palomo Aguado.[9] He ran as candidate for the 1931 Constituent election in the constituencies of Ciudad Real, Guadalajara and Granada; elected in the three constituencies, he chose to remain as legislator representing the first constituency.

He was expelled from the PRRS in 1932 along Juan Botella Asensi [es], chiefly on the basis of having repeatedly broke party discipline.[10][4] They formed then the Izquierda Radical Socialista [es] ("Radical Socialist Left").[4] By that time he was Master of the Logia Luis Simarro No. 3 in Madrid.[1]

A target of right-wing terrorist groups, he suffered an attempt on his life on 7 April 1936, when a bomb hidden in a basket of eggs exploded in his residence at the calle de Rafael Calvo 12.[11][12]

He was appointed Attorney General of the Republic in December 1936.[13]

Exiled to Venezuela after the end of the Spanish Civil War,[14] he died on 25 February 1965 in Caracas.[15]

Works

  • — (1935). Etiopía. El conflicto italo-abisinio.[16]

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c Esteban Barahona 1999, pp. 19–20.
  2. ^ Lasaga 2014, pp. 17–18.
  3. ^ "Ortega y Gasset, Eduardo. 46. Elecciones 8.5.1910". congreso.es. Congress of Deputies.
  4. ^ a b c Cucalón Vela 2016.
  5. ^ Urrutia León 2009, pp. 194–195.
  6. ^ Urrutia León 2009, p. 195.
  7. ^ Tuñón de Lara 1967, p. 129.
  8. ^ Núñez Rivero 2017, p. 251.
  9. ^ a b Serralonga i Urquidi 2007.
  10. ^ Avilés Farré 2006, p. 211.
  11. ^ "Estalla una bomba en un piso de la calle de Rafael Calvo, causando daños materiales". ABC. Madrid: 47. 8 April 1936.
  12. ^ Sánchez Pérez 2015, p. 108.
  13. ^ "Eduardo Ortega y Gasset, fiscal general de la República". ABC. Madrid: 7. 11 December 1936.
  14. ^ Pradera, Javier (19 February 2002). "Las dianas del arquero". El País.
  15. ^ "Esquela". ABC. Madrid: 107. 24 February 1966.
  16. ^ González Aimé 2011, pp. 215–217.
Bibliography
  • Avilés Farré, Juan (2006). La izquierda burguesa y la tragedia de la II República Juan Avilés Farré (PDF). Madrid: Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid. ISBN 84-451-2881-7.
  • Cucalón Vela, Diego (2016). "Ejercer el poder con herencias del pasado: el Partido republicano Radical Socialista ante la Segunda República española". Cahiers de civilisation espagnole contemporaine (in Spanish) (17). doi:10.4000/ccec.6331. ISSN 1957-7761.
  • Esteban Barahona, Luis Enrique (1999). "Masones en Guadalajara: una primera aproximación" (PDF). Añil (17): 13–20. ISSN 1133-2263.
  • González Aimé, Elsa (2011). "Ortega y Gasset, Eduardo, Etiopía. El conflicto italo-abisinio, Ediciones del Viento, Madrid, 2009 [1ª edición 1935]" (PDF). Relaciones Internacionales (16). Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
  • Lasaga, José (2014). "Ortega y Gasset y la Guerra Civil española" (PDF). Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos (774). Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo. ISSN 0011-250X.
  • Núñez Rivero, José María Cayetano (2017). "La masonería y la Segunda República española (1931–1939)" (PDF). Estudios de Deusto. 65 (1). Universidad de Deusto: 243–270. doi:10.18543/ed-65(1)-2017pp243-270. ISSN 0423-4847.
  • Sánchez Pérez, Francisco (2015). "El 'Héroe' frente a la maligna república". Hispania Nova. Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. ISSN 1138-7319.
  • Serralonga i Urquidi, Joan (2007). "El aparato provincial durante la Segunda República. Los gobernadores civiles, 1931–1939" (PDF). Hispania Nova (7). Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. ISSN 1138-7319.
  • Tuñón de Lara, Manuel (1967). Historia y realidad del poder (el poder y las élites en el primer tercio de la España del siglo XX). Madrid: Edicusa.
  • Urrutia León, Manuel María (2009). "Miguel de Unamuno y "España con honra" (1924–1925)". Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno (in Spanish). 47 (1). Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca: 193–234–234. ISSN 0210-749X.
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