Luis Carrero Blanco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish admiral and politician
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Place of Birth: Santoña, Cantabria, Spain
About Luis Carrero Blanco
- Luis Carrero Blanco (4 March 1904 – 20 December 1973) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Spain from June 1973 until his assassination in December of that year.
- He participated in the two major Spanish conflicts of the Interwar period: the Rif War in Morocco, and later the Spanish Civil War, in which he supported the Nationalist side.
- Carrero Blanco, a long-time confidant and right-hand man of Francisco Franco, was one of the most prominent figures in the Francoist dictatorship's power structure, holding throughout his career a number of high-ranking offices such as those of Undersecretary of the Prime Minister's Office and Deputy Prime Minister.
- He also was the main drafter behind the 1947 Law of Succession to the Headship of the State.
- Carrero ended up succeeding Franco as head of government in June 1973, due to Franco's worsening health. Shortly after his ascension to the premiership Carrero Blanco was assassinated in a roadside bombing on 20 December 1973 by the armed Basque nationalist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) while returning from mass in his car.
- He was posthumously awarded the nobiliary title of Duke of Carrero Blanco.
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