Alejandro Lerroux
| Alejandro Lerroux | |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
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In office 12 September 1933 – 9 October 1933 |
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| President | Niceto Alcalá Zamora |
| Preceded by | Manuel Azaña |
| Succeeded by | Diego Martínez Barrio |
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In office 16 December 1933 – 28 April 1934 |
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| President | Niceto Alcalá Zamora |
| Preceded by | Diego Martínez Barrio |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo Samper |
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In office 4 October 1934 – 25 September 1935 |
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| President | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora |
| Preceded by | Ricardo Samper |
| Succeeded by | Joaquín Chapaprieta |
| Personal details | |
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Alejandro Lerroux García 4 March 1864 La Rambla, Córdoba, Spain |
| Died | 25 June 1949 (aged 85) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Radical Republican Party |
| Spouse(s) | Teresa López |
| Children | Aurelio Lerroux (adoptive) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Alejandro Lerroux y García (La Rambla, Córdoba, 4 March 1864 – Madrid, 25 June 1949) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party during the Second Spanish Republic. He served as Prime Minister of Spain three times from 1933 to 1935 and held several cabinet posts as well.
The word Lerrouxism (Spanish: Lerrouxismo, Catalan: Lerrouxisme) was coined after this politician's name. It was used to refer to a demagogic anti-Catalan discourse in Catalonia.
Lerroux agitated as a young man in the ranks of the radical republicans, as a follower of Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla. He practised a demagogic and aggressive journalistic style in the diverse publications that he directed (El País, El Progreso, El Intransigente and El Radical).
His populist and anticlerical speeches, as well as his intervention in diverse campaigns against the governments of the Restoration, made him very popular among workers in Barcelona, who later constituted the base of a loyal electorate. He was chosen as a deputy for the first time in 1901, and again in 1903 and 1905, as a member of the Republican Union Party party that he had helped to form with Nicolás Salmerón. The defection of Salmerón to the Catalan Solidarity coalition in 1906 led Lerroux to form the Radical Republican Party (1908) and headed the struggle against increasing Catalan nationalism. He had to go into exile on several occasions, first to escape condemnation dictated by one of his articles (1907) and later fleeing from governmental repression in response to the Tragic Week in Barcelona (1909).
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