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CHRISTINO See also:MARTOS (183o-1893)
, See also:Spanish politician, was See also:born at See also:Granada on the 13th of See also:September 183o
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He was educated there and at See also:Madrid University, where his Radicalism soon got him into trouble, and he narrowly escaped being expelled for his See also:share in student riots and other demonstrations against the governments of See also:Queen See also:Isabella
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He distinguished himself as a journalist on El Tribuno
.
He joined O'Donnell and See also:Espartero in 1854 against a revolutionary See also:cabinet, and shortly afterwards turned against O'Donnell to assist the Democrats and Progressists under See also:Prim, Rivero, Castelar, and See also:Sagasta in the unsuccessful movements of 1866, and was obliged to go abroad
.
His See also:political career had not prevented See also:Martos from rising into See also:note at the See also:bar, where he was successful for See also:forty years
.
After remaining abroad three years, he returned to See also:Spain to take his seat in the See also:Cortes of 1869 after the revolution
of 1868
.
Throughout the revolutionary See also:period he represented. in cabinets with Prim, Serrano and See also:Ruiz Zorilla, and lastly under See also: Shortly afterwards Martos joined the dynastic See also:Left organized by Marshal Serrano, General See also:Lopez Dominguez, and Moret, See also:Becerra, See also:Balaguer, and other quondam revolutionaries . He sat in several parliaments of the reign of Aiphonso XII. and of the regency of Queen See also:Christina, joined the dynastic Liberals under Sagasta, and gave Sagasta not a little trouble when the latter allowed him to preside over the See also:House of Deputies . Having failed to See also:form a See also:rival party against Sagasta, Martos subsided into political insignificance, despite his See also:great See also:talent as an orator and debater, and died in Madrid on the 16th of January 1893 . |
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