Francisco Silvela y Le Vielleuze (15 December 1843, in Madrid[1] – 29 May 1905, in Madrid[2]) was a Spanish politician who became Prime Minister of Spain on 3 May 1899, succeeding Práxedes Mateo Sagasta. He served in this capacity until 22 October 1900. Silvela also served a second term from 6 December 1902 to 20 July 1903, in which he succeeded another one of Práxedes Mateo Sagasta's many separate terms as prime minister.[3]
Francisco Silvela belonged to the Conservative Party led by Antonio Cánovas del Castillo.[4] He was a Deputy in Parliament continuously from 1876 to 1903, mostly representing Ávila, but for one term he served Pontevedra.[5] He became leader of the Party after the assassination of Cánovas in 1897.[6][7] His government concluded the German–Spanish Treaty (1899), selling the remainder of the Spanish East Indies.[8]
Silvela named the general Arsenio Linares y Pombo, who had fought in the Spanish–American War, Minister of War in 1900. He withdrew from politics in 1903 and appointed Antonio Maura as his successor. He died in Madrid in 1905.
Silvela was elected to seat K of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 30 April 1893.[8]
Family
Francisco Silvela married Amalia Loring y Heredia;[9] their children were Jorge and Tomas.
Notes
- ^ Pérez Pastor was elected for the position in 1905 but never took the seat
References
- ^ Ruiz, Angel Salcedo y (1888). Francisco Silvela (in Spanish). F. Fê. p. 21. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Almagro, Melchor Fernández (1977). Historia del reinado de Alfonso XIII (in Spanish). Montaner y Simon. p. 65. ISBN 978-84-274-0379-6. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Balfour, Sebastian (1997). The End of the Spanish Empire, 1898-1923. Clarendon Press. pp. 57–61. ISBN 978-0-19-820507-4.
- ^ GOYANES, ENRIQUE SANCHEZ (31 December 1980). SISTEMA CONSTITUCIONAL ESPAÑOL (in Spanish). Ediciones Paraninfo, S.A. p. 138. ISBN 978-84-283-1062-8. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "Buscador histórico - Congreso de los Diputados". www.congreso.es. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Calvo, Juan A.; Prado, Carlos Gómez del (1972). La veta hispana: panorama de la civilización española (in Spanish). Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-390-16378-3. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ Jiménez-Landi, Antonio (1996). La Institución Libre de Enseñanza y su ambiente: Periodo escolar (1881-1907) (in Spanish). Edicions Universitat Barcelona. p. 335. ISBN 978-84-89365-98-8. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ a b "Francisco Silvela - letra K". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
- ^ Uceta, Enrique Domínguez; Lopez, Mercedes Pelaez (February 2011). Málaga (in Spanish). Alhena Media. p. 19. ISBN 978-84-92963-26-3. Retrieved 28 December 2024.