Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz

{{Short description|Spanish politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Salustiano de Olózaga

| image = Salustiano de Olózaga Armandoz 1872 Antonio Gisbert Pérez.jpg

| imagesize =

| office = Prime Minister of Spain

| monarch = Isabella II

| term_start = 20 November 1843

| term_end = 5 December 1843

| predecessor = Joaquin Maria Lopez

| successor = Luis Gonzalez-Bravo

| birth_date = 8 June 1805

| birth_place = Oyon, Spain

| death_date = 23 September 1873 (aged 68)

| death_place = Enghien-les-Bains, France

| restingplace = Pantheon of Illustrious Men

| birthname = Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz

| nationality = Spanish

| party = Progressive Party (Spain)

| spouse = Felisa Camarasa

| alma_mater = University of Zaragoza
Central University (Madrid)

| occupation = Soldier, writer and lawyer

| awards = Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Great Cross of the Order of Charles III

| honorific_prefix = The Most Excellent

| office2 = Minister of State

| predecessor2 = Joaquin de Frias

| successor2 = Luis González Bravo

| term_start2 = 20 November 1843

| term_end2 = 29 November 1843

| office3 = Seat N of the Real Academia Española

| term_start3 = 23 April 1871

| term_end3 = 23 September 1873

| predecessor3 = Frutos Saavedra Meneses{{efn|Saavedra was elected for the position in 1867 but never took the seat}}

| successor3 = {{ill|León Galindo de Vera|es}}

}}

Salustiano de Olózaga y Almandoz (8 June 1805, in Oyón-Oion, Álava – 26 September 1873, in Enghien-les-Bains, France) was a Spanish politician, diplomat, lawyer and writer who served as Prime Minister of Spain and was appointed three times ambassador to France.

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Family and Surroundings

Olózaga was born into a comfortable liberal family who lived in the Rioja Alavesa part of Northern Spain. {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/847485062|title=Liberales eminentes|date=2008|publisher=Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia|others=Manuel Pérez Ledesma, Isabel Burdiel|isbn=978-84-15817-46-8|location=Madrid|oclc=847485062}} His grandfather, Ramón Antonio obtained in 1791 the recognition of his nobility thanks to the rule of universal hidalgocy. His grandfather would go on to serve as regidor of Logroño. Olózaga's father was a Doctor of Medicine who worked for the city of Arnedo earning a comfortable wage. {{Cite book|last=de los Ríos|first=Angel Fernández|title=Olózaga|year=1863}}

Soon after being born, he moved to the family house in Arnedo where he would learn his first letters and words. Years later Olózaga would go on to say that he learned these reading from the Spanish Constitution of 1812, updating it as more articles where passed in parliamentary sessions.

His Latin teacher was Marcelino Magro, a liberal cathedraticum who was originally from Cuenca, Spain but had taken refuge in Arnedo. Marcelino Magro would use texts from Latin authors as his learning materials, instead of the catechism as was normal at that time.

At this time he would be successful in the Latin tournament held by the franciscans in the Convento de Vico. The winner obtained the right for the rest of the students to chant their town. That chant of "Viva Arnedo!" would stay with him for his entire life, such that in his death bed he still wrote a letter to his son remembering that moment.

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Category:Prime ministers of Spain

Category:1805 births

Category:1873 deaths

Category:Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain)

Category:Progressive Party (Spain) politicians

Category:Ambassadors of Spain to France

Category:Civil governors of Madrid