Manuel García Prieto, Marquis of Alhucemas

Spanish politician (1859–1938)

Manuel García Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas (5 November 1859 – 8 March 1938) was a Spanish politician who served as prime minister several times in his life and as the 30th Solicitor General of Spain. He was a member of the Liberal Party. During his last term, he was deposed by Miguel Primo de Rivera.

Biography

Born on 5 November 1859 in Astorga, province of León.^[1][2]Formed in the law firm of Eugenio Montero Ríos, García Prieto entered the former's cacique network and married one of his daughters, María Victoria.^[3]

Following the assassination of Prime Minister José Canalejas in 1912, and the ensuing factional division within the Liberal Party, García-Prieto led the so-called demócrata ("democratic") minority, rival of the romanonista majority.^[4]

On 27 November 1912, he and French ambassador to Spain Léon Geoffray signed the Treaty between France and Spain regarding Morocco, which established de jure Spanish zones of influence in northern and southern Morocco, both zones already under de facto Spanish control, while France remained the primary colonial power as the sole non-Moroccan state signatory of the 1912 Treaty of Fes.^[5][6]

Within the cadres of the Liberal party, the Marquis of Alhucemas espoused just like Miguel Villanueva the policy of neutrality of Spain during World War I, forcing pro-ally Romanones to resign as Prime Minister in 1917.^[7]

He died in San Sebastián on 8 March 1938.^[8]

References

Citations

1. Viñas, Verónica (30 December 2018). "Autores leoneses que pasan a ser de dominio público". Diario de León.
2. "Una fundación para el ilustre hijo". Diario de León. 25 March 2003.
3. Prada & López Blanco 2001, p. 362.
4. Moreno Luzón 2004, pp. 133–164.
5. Treaty Between France and Spain Regarding Morocco, in: The American Journal of International Law, vol.7, no.2, Apr. 1913
6. Marchat, Henry (1971). "La France et l'Espagne au Maroc pendant la période du Protectorat (1912-1956)". Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée. 10 (1): 81–109. doi:10.3406/remmm.1971.1122.
7. Rosenbusch 2017, p. 357.
8. Francisco Olmos 2010, p. 18.

Bibliography

• Francisco Olmos, José María de (2010). La concesión de Títulos Nobiliarios a los Presidentes del Consejo de Ministros durante la Restauración (1874–1931) (PDF). Madrid: Real Academia Matritense de Heráldica y Genealogía.
• Moreno Luzón, Javier (2004). "El Partido Liberal Español y la Crisis da la Restauración (1917–1923)". In Baiôa, Manuel (ed.). Elites y poder/ La crisis del sistema liberal en Portugal y España (1918–1931). Évora: Publicações do Cidehus, Edições Colibri. pp. 133–164. doi:10.4000/books.cidehus.3732. ISBN 9789727724536.
• Prada, Julio; López Blanco, Rogelio (2001). "Galicia". In Varela Ortega, José (ed.). El poder de la influencia del caciquismo en España (1875–1923). Madrid: Marcial Pons Historia; Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales. ISBN 84-259-1152-4.
• Rosenbusch, Anne (2017). "Guerra Total en territorio neutral: Actividades alemanas en España durante la Primera Guerra Mundial". Hispania Nova. 15 (15). Getafe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: 357. doi:10.20318/hn.2017.3493.