Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra

The Most Excellent Modesto Cortázar

Prime Minister of Spain
In office 28 August 1840 – 11 September 1840
Monarch	Isabella II
Preceded by	Valentín Ferraz
Succeeded by	Vicente Sancho

Personal details
Born	Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra
Nationality	Spanish

Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra (15 June 1783, in Briviesca (Burgos) – 25 January 1862, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister.^[1]

Cortázar was a member of the Progressive Party in Spain.

When the government of Valentín Ferraz y Barrau fell on 28 August 1840, he was appointed by Regent María Cristina de Borbón to form a government in which he became acting Prime Minister and also held the post of Minister of Justice. After 2 weeks, he was replaced by Vicente Sancho y Cobertores.

During the Década Moderada, he became in January 1847 President of the Congress of Deputies and in September 1847 Foreign minister in the cabinet of Florencio García Goyena.

References

^ M.C. de Onís (1853). Observaciones político-económicas sobre la Junta o Consejo de sres. Ministros con algunas máximas política ...: organización de las Secretarías del Despacho, de otras dependencias del Estado. Imprenta de la viuda de Antonio Yenes. pp. 131–.

Prime ministers of Spain

Acting prime ministers shown in italics.

Queen Isabella II
(1833–1868)