Estanislao Figueras
{{Short description|Spanish politician (1819–1882)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|Figueras|Moragas|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Estanislao Figueras
| image = Estanislao Figueras.png
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1819|11|13|df=y}}
| birth_place = Barcelona, Spain
| residence =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1882|11|11|1819|11|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Madrid, Spain
| office = President of the Executive Power
| term_start = 11 February 1873
| term_end = 11 June 1873
| primeminister = Himself
| predecessor = Amadeo I
(King of Spain)
| successor = Francisco Pi y Margall
| office2 = Prime Minister of Spain
| president2 = Himself
| term_start2 = 11 February 1873
| term_end2 = 11 June 1873
| predecessor2 = Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla
| successor2 = Francisco Pi y Margall
| party = Progressist
(1848–1849)
Democratic
(1849–1868)
Democratic Federal Republican
(1868–1880)
Organic Federal Republican
(1880–1882)
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Estanislao Figueras y Moragas (13 November 1819 – 11 November 1882) was a Spanish politician who served as the first President of the First Republic from 12 February to 11 June 1873.{{Sfn|Urquijo Goitia|2008|pp=70-71}}
Biography
Figueras was born in Barcelona on 13 November 1819.{{Sfn|Bermejo|1877|p=394}}
He led the Republican Party after Queen Isabella II was overthrown in 1868. He briefly became president after King Amadeo abdicated. He was succeeded as president by Francisco Pi y Margall. He is famous for having said, after one more fruitless Council of Ministers: "Gentlemen, I can not stand this anymore. I will be frank to you: I am up to my bollocks of all of us."{{Sfn|Rolandi Sánchez-Solís|2009|p=204}} After the 1875 restoration of the monarchy he withdrew from public life. He died in Madrid in november 1882,{{Sfn|Rolandi Sánchez-Solís|2009|p=414}} at the age of 62.
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last= Bermejo |first= Ildefonso Antonio |title= Historia de la interinidad y guerra civil de España desde 1868 |volume= III |publisher= R. Labajos |year= 1877 |location= |language=Spanish |isbn= }}
- {{Cite book |last= Rolandi Sánchez-Solís |first= Manuel |title= El republicanismo y el federalismo español del siglo XIX: la búsqueda de un nuevo orden político y social al servicio de los ciudadanos |publisher= Centro de Investigación y Estudios Republicanos |year=2009 |location=Madrid |language=Spanish |isbn= 9788461294497 }}
- {{cite book |last= Urquijo Goitia |first= José Ramón |title= Gobiernos y ministros españoles en la edad contemporánea |year= 2008 |publisher= Editorial CSIC |isbn= 978-84-00-08737-1}}
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Category:Prime ministers of Spain
Category:Politicians from Barcelona
Category:Presidents of the Executive Power of the First Spanish Republic