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Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta

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Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta
Born22 April 1808 Edit this on Wikidata
Llerena Edit this on Wikidata
Died11 March 1899 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 90)
Madrid Edit this on Wikidata

Joaquín Ignacio Figueroa y Mendieta (22 April 1808 – 11 March 1899) was a Spanish politician and businessman.

Biography

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Born in Llerena on 22 April 1808,[1] the only son of Luis Figueroa y Casaus (an afrancesado who moved to Marseille after May 1808 and made a considerable fortune investing in mining companies dedicated to lead extraction in Andalusia)[2] and Luisa Mendieta.[3] Ignacio would inherit his father's companies.[4] He received an education in Paris, and, after working for a time as the representative of the interests of his father in Spain, he settled in Madrid in 1845.[5]

In 1852, he married Ana de Torres, viscountess of Irueste, forming a union between an affluent bourgeois—him—and an aristocrat in economic hardship,[6] so he got to enter aristocratic circles.[4] He earned a seat at the Congress of Deputies for the first time in 1865, replacing the vacant seat left by Manuel García Barzanallana in the district of Guadalajara.[1] He renewed his seat during the reign of Isabella II in 1865[7] and 1867.[8] He became senator for the first time in the 1867–1868 period.[9] Durante the reign of Amadeo I , Figueroa was elected as deputy in representation of Puentedeume at the 1872 election.[10]

Following the Bourbon Restoration, he was elected member of the Congress in the first election that took place in the new regime in 1876, in representation of Guadalajara; appointed as Senator he renounced to his deputy seat in 1877.[11] He served at the Senate until 1899.[9]

He died in Madrid on 11 March 1899.[1][9]

He was the father of Francisca de Paula,[12] José,[13] Álvaro (the Count of Romanones), Gonzalo[13] and Rodrigo, spawning one of the most influential families in Spain during the Restoration period.[14]

References

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Citations
  1. ^ a b c "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 24. Elecciones 22.11.1864". Congreso de los Diputados.
  2. ^ Chastagnaret 2000, pp. 344–345.
  3. ^ Gortázar 1989, pp. 252, 254–255.
  4. ^ a b Moreno Luzón 1996, p. 147.
  5. ^ Gortázar 1989, p. 258.
  6. ^ Shubert 2003, pp. 65–66; Moreno Luzón 1996, p. 147.
  7. ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 25. Elecciones 1.12.1865". Congreso de los Diputados.
  8. ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 26. Elecciones 10.3.1867". Congreso de los Diputados.
  9. ^ a b c "Figueroa y Mendieta, Ignacio. Marqués de Villamejor". Senado de España.
  10. ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 29. Elecciones 2.4.1872". Congreso de los Diputados.
  11. ^ "Figueroa y Mendieta, Joaquín Ignacio. 32. Elecciones 20.1.1876". Congreso de los Diputados.
  12. ^ De Figueroa y Melgar, Alfonso (1900). Estudio Histórico Sobre Algunas Familias Españolas. Fabiola. p. 156. ISBN 8493717320.
  13. ^ a b Peña Guerrero & Sierra 2001, p. 36.
  14. ^ Gortázar 1989, p. 252.
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