José Calvo Sotelo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

José Calvo Sotelo

Spanish politician

Date of Birth: 06-May-1893

Place of Birth: Tui, Galicia, Spain

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1936

Profession: lawyer, politician, jurist, economist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

José Calvo Sotelo, 1st Duke of Calvo Sotelo, GE (6 May 1893 – 13 July 1936) was a Spanish jurist and politician, minister of Finance during the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera and a leading figure of the anti-republican right during the Second Republic.
His assassination in July 1936 by the bodyguards of Socialist party leader Indalecio Prieto was an immediate prelude to the triggering of the military coup plotted since February 1936, the partial failure of which marked the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.