Rodolfo Llopis

{{Short description|Spanish politician}}

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Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz (27 February 1895, Callosa d'En Sarrià, Alicante, Spain{{cite book |last1=Sánchez-Albornoz |first1=Sonsoles Cabeza |title=Historia política de la Segunda República en el exilio |date=1997 |publisher=Fundación Universitaria Española |isbn=978-84-7392-394-1 |page=412 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TBBpAAAAMAAJ&q=Rodolfo+Llopis+%2227+de+febrero+de+1895%22 |access-date=31 December 2024 |language=es}} – 22 July 1983, Albi, France{{cite book |last1=García |first1=Manuel |title=Exiliados: la emigración cultural valenciana (siglos XVI-XX) |date=1995 |publisher=Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Cultura |isbn=978-84-482-0613-0 |page=115 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iRpAAAAMAAJ&q=Rodolfo+Llopis+%2222+de+julio+de+1983%22 |access-date=31 December 2024 |language=es}}) was a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in exile from 1944 to 1974.{{cite web |title=Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz {{!}} Real Academia de la Historia |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/12205/rodolfo-llopis-ferrandiz |website=dbe.rah.es |access-date=31 December 2024}}

In 1947 he succeeded José Giral as prime minister of the Spanish Republican government in exile.{{cite web |title=Llopis Ferrándiz, Rodolfo |url=https://fpabloiglesias.es/entrada-db/llopis-ferrandiz-rodolfo/ |website=Fundación Pablo Iglesias |access-date=31 December 2024 |language=es |date=25 February 2012}} Álvaro de Albornoz y Liminiana succeeded him the same year. Prior to this, from 1931 to 1936, he was a Deputy representing Alicante and briefly Madrid.{{cite web |title=Buscador histórico - Congreso de los Diputados |url=https://www.congreso.es/es/web/guest/historico-diputados?p_p_id=historicodiputados&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&_historicodiputados_mvcRenderCommandName=indiceDiputado&_historicodiputados_ndip=(61450) |website=www.congreso.es |access-date=31 December 2024}}

During the period of the Spanish Second Republic, Llopis was heavily involved with primary education reforms.{{cite web |title=Rodolfo Llopis Ferrándiz |url=https://diccionariobiograficodecastillalamancha.es/biografias/llopis-ferrandiz-rodolfo/ |website=Diccionario Biográfico de Castilla-La Mancha |access-date=31 December 2024 |language=es}} His achievements in this role were great and this, combined with his dapper appearance and youth, earned him the title of "the Rudolph Valentino of pedagogy."Stanley G. Payne, 'The Spanish Revolution', p. 99