Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel y Nebreda (25 December 1917 – 22 October 1976) was a Spanish falangist politician and

State lawyer The State Lawyers Corps (Spanish: ''Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado'') is a body of top civil servants in Spain, dependent on the Solicitor General of the State, itself organically integrated (currently) within the Ministry of Justice. It was crea ...

, who served in important positions during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Biography

Born in December 1917 in Burgos to a bourgeois family, he joined the

Sindicato Español Universitario The Sindicato Español Universitario ("Spanish University Union"; SEU) was a corporatist students' union in Spain, created in the 1930s during the Second Spanish Republic, by the Falange Española (later the Falange Española de las JONS) under th ...

(SEU) in 1934. A ''camisa vieja'' Falangist, he entered the Civil War as volunteer in a ''Bandera'' of Falange. From 27 November 1969 to 5 December 1975 he served as the President of the

Francoist Cortes Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

. He was a chief endorser of the (ANEPA). In the capacity of President of the Council of Regency, he briefly served as acting Head of State, from Franco's death on 20 November to 22 November 1975, when then Prince Juan Carlos took an oath and was proclaimed

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. He died on 22 October 1976 in the Ciudad Sanitaria La Paz in Madrid. His corpse was buried at the San José cemetery in Burgos. On 5 January 1977 he was posthumously bestowed the nobiliary title of Count of Rodríguez de Valcárcel.

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