Antonio Goicoechea (21 January 1876, in

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– 11 February 1953, in

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) was an Alfonsine monarchist

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and

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during the period of the

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and the

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. He started to become politically relevant when he became the leader of the Juventudes Mauristas, and he would later serve as

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from 15 April 1919 to 20 July 1919 in a Maura cabinet. He led the

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'' Renovación Española'' political party. Prior to the Civil War, Goicoechea in 1934 had negotiated along with the Carlists Antonio Lizarza Iribarren and Rafael de Olazábal y Eulate with the Italian dictator

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on a military agreement to guarantee Italian support of their movements if a civil war erupted in Spain. However, according to Lizarza, when the Civil War erupted in 1936, it had not been initiated by Goicoechea or other members of the agreement but by a group of army officers and so Goicoechea's agreement with Mussolini did not go forward.Burnett Bolloten. ''The Spanish Civil War: revolution and counterrevolution''. University of North Carolina Press, 1991. Pp. 11 After Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista emerged in 1937, Goicoechea dissolved ''Renovación Española'' and served as the 58th Governor of the Bank of Spain (from 1938 to 1950)Gobernadores del Banco de España
– Bank of Spain and Procurador en Cortes (representative of the Francoist legislature).

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