Josep Tomàs i Piera, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josep Tomàs i Piera

Spanish jurist, lawyer and politician (1900-1976)

Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1900

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1976

Profession: lawyer, politician, jurist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Josep Tomàs i Piera (Spanish: José Tomás Piera, 6 August 1900 – 9 January 1976) was a Spanish lawyer and politician. He became active in politics, and was elected to the Spanish legislature in 1933 on the platform of the Republican Left of Catalonia. During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) he was briefly Minister of Labor, Health and Social Welfare in the first government of Francisco Largo Caballero, before being made Spanish consul in Montreal, Canada. After the war he lived in exile in Mexico, where he was a leader of the Catalan community.