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MARTOS, CHRISTINO (183o-1893)

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MARTOS, CHRISTINO (183o-1893) , See also:Spanish politician, was See also:born at See also:Granada on the 13th of See also:September 183o. He was educated there and at See also:Madrid University, where his Radicalism soon got him into trouble, and he narrowly escaped being expelled for his See also:share in student riots and other demonstrations against the governments of See also:Queen See also:Isabella. He distinguished himself as a journalist on El Tribuno. He joined O'Donnell and See also:Espartero in 1854 against a revolutionary See also:cabinet, and shortly afterwards turned against O'Donnell to assist the Democrats and Progressists under See also:Prim, Rivero, Castelar, and See also:Sagasta in the unsuccessful movements of 1866, and was obliged to go abroad. His See also:political career had not prevented Martos from rising into See also:note at the See also:bar, where he was successful for See also:forty years. After remaining abroad three years, he returned to See also:Spain to take his seat in the See also:Cortes of 1869 after the revolution of 1868. Throughout the revolutionary See also:period he represented. in cabinets with Prim, Serrano and See also:Ruiz Zorilla, and lastly under See also:King Amadeus, the advanced See also:Radical tendencies of the men who wanted to give Spain a democratic See also:monarchy. After the See also:abdication of Amadeus of See also:Savoy, Martos played a prominent See also:part in the See also:proclamation of the federal See also:republic, in the struggle between the executive of that republic and the permanent See also:committee of the Cortes, backed by the generals and See also:militia, who nearly put an end to the executive and republic in See also:April 1873. When the republicans triumphed Martos retired into See also:exile, and soon afterwards into private See also:life. He reappeared for a few months after See also:General See also:Pavia's coup d'etat in See also:January 1874, to join a See also:coalition cabinet formed by See also:Marshal Serrano, with Sagasta and Ulloa. Martos returned to the Bar in May 1874, and quietly looked on when the restoration took See also:place at the end of that See also:year. He See also:stuck to his democratic ideals for some years, even going to See also:Biarritz in 1881 to be See also:present at a republican See also:congress presided over by Ruiz Zorilla.

Shortly afterwards Martos joined the dynastic See also:

Left organized by Marshal Serrano, General See also:Lopez Dominguez, and Moret, See also:Becerra, See also:Balaguer, and other quondam revolutionaries. He sat in several parliaments of the reign of Aiphonso XII. and of the regency of Queen See also:Christina, joined the dynastic Liberals under Sagasta, and gave Sagasta not a little trouble when the latter allowed him to preside over the See also:House of Deputies. Having failed to See also:form a See also:rival party against Sagasta, Martos subsided into political insignificance, despite his See also:great See also:talent as an orator and debater, and died in Madrid on the 16th of January 1893.

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