Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta
{{short description|Spanish lawyer and politician}}
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{{family name hatnote|Callejo|de la Cuesta|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts
| term_start = December 1925
| term_end = January 1930
| office2 = President of the Council of State
| term_start2 = 1945
| term_end2 = 1950
| office3 = Member of the Francoist Cortes
| term_start3 = 1943
| term_end3 = 1950
| birth_date = 21 September 1875
| death_date = 21 January 1950
| birth_place = Madrid
| death_place = Madrid
| citizenship = Spanish
| occupation = Professor · politician · lawyer
}}
Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta (1875–1950) was a Spanish jurist, politician and professor of the University of Valladolid who served as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts during the Civil Directory of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1925–1930). His institutional career ended with his office presiding over the Council of State in Francoist Spain.
Early life
Born on 21 September 1875 in Madrid,{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|pp=138–139}} he moved to Sigüenza when he was eight and later to Cáceres, where he did the latest years of his secondary school education and passed the Baccalaureate.{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|p=141}} He started his university studies in law at the Central University of Madrid, graduated the University of Valladolid and obtained a PhD in the same area at the Central University.{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|p=142}} He was employed by the Audience of Seville from 1902 to 1905, when he returned to Valladolid to work in the later city audience.{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|p=146}} He became a lawyer in 1908 and in 1912 obtained the chair of Natural Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|pp=146–148}}
Political career
From 1925 to 193, he served as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.{{Sfn|Martínez Chávez|2011}}
The attempted enactment of Article 53 of the Law of University Reform, promoted by Callejo in 1928, equating private education (Augustinian and Jesuit religious institutions in particular) with public education for the purposes of the issuance of academic degrees. That generated a wave of unrest and protests by the students.{{Sfn|González Calleja|2005|pp=32–33}}{{Sfn|González Cuevas|2008|p=51}} In 1930, soon after the end of the Primo de Rivera government, he joined the National Monarchist Union along other nostalgics for the regime such as José Calvo Sotelo, Ramiro de Maeztu and the son of the dictator, José Antonio.{{Sfn|Porto Ucha|Vázquez Ramil|2015|p=99}}
After the onset of the Spanish State, he was designated member of the Cortes Españolas in 1943.{{Sfn|Martínez Chávez|2011}} In 1945, he was appointed as President of the Council of State and served until his death on 21 January 1950 in Madrid.{{Sfn|Calonge Velázquez|2017|pp=138–139}}{{Sfn|Martínez Chávez|2011}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite journal|title=Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta: Un ministro primorriverista|first=Antonio|last=Calonge Velázquez|year=2017|journal= Revista Aequitas: Estudios sobre historia, derecho e instituciones|issn=2174-9493|issue=2017|pages=137–173|url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/6605114.pdf}}
- {{Cite journal|journal=Ayer|location=Madrid|publisher=Asociación de Historia Contemporánea; Marcial Pons Historia|title=Rebelión en las aulas: un siglo de movilizaciones|first=Eduardo|last=González Calleja|author-link=Eduardo González Calleja|url=https://www.ahistcon.org/PDF/numeros/ayer59_JuventudPoliticaEspanaContemporanea_GonzalezCalleja.pdf|issue=3|volume=59|year=2005|issn=2255-5838|pages=21–49|access-date=8 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114173712/https://www.ahistcon.org/PDF/numeros/ayer59_JuventudPoliticaEspanaContemporanea_GonzalezCalleja.pdf|archive-date=14 November 2016|url-status=dead}}
- {{Cite journal|last=González Cuevas|first=Pedro Carlos|volume=71|issue=3|title=Tradicionalismo, catolicismo y nacionalismo: la extrema derecha durante el régimen de la Restauración (1898-1930)|year=2008|pages=21–52|journal=Ayer|location=Madrid|publisher=Asociación de Historia Contemporánea; Marcial Pons Historia}}
- {{Cite journal|year=2011|url=http://portal.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos/lcatedraticos/ccuesta|journal=Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de derecho (1847–1943)|title=Callejo de la Cuesta, Eduardo (1875–1940)|first=Eva Elizabeth|last=Martínez Chávez|publisher=Universidad Carlos III de Madrid|location=Getafe}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S7DRCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA99|year=2015|first1=Ángel Serafín|title=María de Maeztu. Una antología de textos|last1= Porto Ucha|last2=Vázquez Ramil|first2=Raquel|publisher=Editorial Dykinson|location=Madrid|isbn=978-84-9085-383-2}}
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{{s-bef|before=Joaquín Salvatella Gisbert}}
{{s-ttl|title=Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts|years = 1925-1930}}
{{s-aft|after=Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart}}
{{s-bef|before=Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta}}
{{s-ttl|title=President of the Council of State|years = 1945–1950}}
{{s-aft|after=José Ibáñez Martín}}
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Valladolid