Ramón Álvarez-Valdés

Ramón Álvarez-Valdés (1866,

Pola de Siero Pola de Siero (in Asturian and as official name La Pola Siero, and also known as La Pola colloquially) is a town in the autonomous community of Asturias on the north coast of the Kingdom of Spain. It is the administrative capital of the municipal ...

– 23 August 1936) was a Spanish

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

and

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. He was Minister of Justice of during the

Second Spanish Republic The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII, and was dissolved on 1 ...

between 16 December 1933 and 17 April 1934 under the presidency of

Alejandro Lerroux Alejandro Lerroux García (4 March 1864, in La Rambla, Córdoba – 25 June 1949, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party. He served as Prime Minister three times from 1933 to 1935 and held sev ...

. He was arrested after the military revolt of 18 July 1936 in the

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and jailed and was killed about a month later. 1866 births 1936 deaths People from Siero Reformist Party (Spain) politicians Justice ministers of Spain Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Spanish Restoration Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Politicians from Asturias 20th-century Spanish lawyers Assassinated Spanish politicians Politicians killed in the Spanish Civil War People murdered in Spain Spanish people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Spanish detention 19th-century Spanish lawyers Politicians assassinated in the 1930s {{Spain-law-bio-stub