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Manuel Fraga

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Spanish politician (1922–2012)

Person · Open Library

Works
106

Top works

  • El Canal de Panamá
  • El Congreso y la politica exterior de los Estados Unidos
  • El hombre y lo humano en el pensamiento político contemporáneo
  • La acción meramente declarativa
  • Fraga Iribarne

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
AR
Active from
1958

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
473
Total plays
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Key facts

Monarch
Juan Carlos I
Preceded by
Fernando González Laxe
Succeeded by
Emilio Pérez Touriño
Prime minister
Carlos Arias-Navarro
Leader
Francisco Franco
Constituency
Madrid
Born
( 1922-11-23 ) 23 November 1922, Vilalba , Spain
Died
15 January 2012 (2012-01-15) (aged 89), Madrid , Spain
Party
People's Party (since 1989), People's Alliance (1977–1989), Democratic Reform (1976–1977), FET y de las JONS (1962–1976)
Spouse
Carmen Estévez Eguiagaray ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 17 January 1948</span>"}]]}'>1948 ; died</span>"}]]}'>d. 23 February 1996</span>"}]]}'>1996 ) ​
Children
5, including Carmen
Alma mater
University of Santiago de Compostela

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Manuel Fraga, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Manuel Fraga Iribarne ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwel ˈfɾaɣa‿i̯ɾiˈβaɾne]; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and one of the founders of the People's Alliance (Alianza Popular; AP). Fraga was the Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1975, Minister of the Interior in 1975, Second Deputy Prime Minister between 1975 and 1976.

After the fall of the regime, Fraga was one of the Fathers of the Constitution and the President of the People's Alliance/People's Party (PP) between 1979 and 1990. He served as President of Galicia between 1990 and 2005, being a member of the Congress of Deputies and a senator until November 2011. A key political figures in Spain, Fraga was active during both General Francisco Franco's regime and the subsequent transition to representative democracy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manuel Fraga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.