Person
Ossorio Gallardo, Ángel (1873-1946)Other forms
Madrid (España) 1873 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) 1946
Spanish law specialist, politician, and ambassador. He was a son of the writer Manuel Ossorio y Bernard and of Manuela Gallardo Rodríguez, as well as brother of the journalist Carlos and the writer, translator and journalist María de Atocha Ossorio y Gallardo de Riu. Ángel Ossorio Gallardo studied law at the Central University of Madrid. During the monarchy of Alfonso XIII he was councilman and deputy mayor of the City of Madrid, civil governor of Barcelona, parliamentary deputy and Minister for Development in 1917. During the Second Republic he was parliamentary deputy for Madrid as an independent. Although he opposed Frente Popular (Popular Front), during the Spanish Civil War he was ambassador of the Second Republic in Brussels, in Paris and in Buenos Aires, as well as delegate of Spain to the League of Nations in Geneva. He was personal friend of President Manuel Azaña. Moreover, Ossorio Gallardo was a member of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and president of the Universal Union for Peace. Dean of the Madrid Bar Association. He was married to Rosalía Florit Arizcun and they were parents of Manuel, Álvaro, Josefina, and Francisco Gallardo Florit. He was exiled to Argentina with his family after the Spanish Civil War and he died in Buenos Aires.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Diccionario de la Guerra Civil española, de Manuel Rubio Cabeza.
Código de Referencia de PARES: ES.37274.CDMH/5.2611//