Eduardo Ortega y Gasset

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

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

Biography

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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

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

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