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Identification

Type:

Person

Preferred form:

Esperabé de Arteaga, Jesús (1909-1987)Other forms

Dates of existence/Biographical dates:

Salamanca 1909 - Salamanca 1987

History:

Spanish politician, businessman, and cattleman. He was born in Salamanca in 1909 and he was the son of Enrique Esperabé Arteaga, who was Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of Salamanca during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. Doctor in Law with the thesis 'Literary and artistic property in the field of Private International Law, Treaties related to the international protection of the right to think'.

Before the Spanish Civil War he was a member of the Republican Left, which cost him reprisals in the Franco regime and Jesús was separated from the teaching career. He was President of the Asociación de Ganaderías de Lidia. In the final stage of Francoism he represented a certain reformist option and he was elected family lawyer in Cortes for the province of Salamanca. In the transition to democracy he had a prominent role in the Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD/Union of Democratic Centre). He was elected Deputy in the Constituent Cortes of 1977 for the province of Salamanca and he held the position of First Vice‑President of the Congress. He was subsequently re‑elected deputy in I Parliamentary term (1979-1982). He died in Salamanca on 10 March 1987.

Spanish transition to democracy

Cortes Constituyentes, 1977-1979

Date of the event: 1977-07-13 - 1979-01-02

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Date of the event: 1936 - 1939