Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Alcalá-Zamora in 1931
President of Spain
In office
10 December 1931  7 April 1936
Prime MinisterManuel Azaña
Alejandro Lerroux
Diego Martínez Barrio
Ricardo Samper
Joaquín Chapaprieta
Manuel Portela
Preceded byFrancisco Serrano
(President of the Executive Power of the Republic, 1874)
Alfonso XIII
(King of Spain, 1931)
Succeeded byManuel Azaña
Prime Minister of Spain
In office
14 April 1931  14 October 1931
PresidentHimself
Preceded byJuan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas
Succeeded byManuel Azaña
Minister of War
In office
7 December 1922  28 May 1923
MonarchAlfonso XIII
Prime MinisterManuel García Prieto
Preceded byJosé Sánchez Guerra
Succeeded byAntonio López Muñoz
Minister of Public Works
In office
1 November 1917  21 March 1918
MonarchAlfonso XIII
Prime MinisterManuel García Prieto
Preceded byLuis de Marichalar y Monreal
Succeeded byFrancesc Cambó
Seat D of the Real Academia Española
In office
8 May 1932  18 February 1949
Preceded byJosé Francos Rodríguez
Succeeded byMelchor Fernández Almagro
Personal details
Born(1877-07-06)6 July 1877
Priego de Córdoba, Spain
Died18 February 1949(1949-02-18) (aged 71)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political partyLiberal Party
(1899–1923)
Independent
(1923–1931)
Liberal Republican Right
(1931–1936)
SpousePurificación Castillo Bidaburu
Children3 sons
3 daughters
Alma materUniversity of Granada
ProfessionLawyer, teacher
AwardsOrder of Isabella the Catholic
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Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres (6 July 1877 – 18 February 1949) was a Spanish lawyer and politician who served, briefly, as the first prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then—from 1931 to 1936—as its president.