Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta
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Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts | |
| In office December 1925 – January 1930 | |
| President of the Council of State | |
| In office 1945–1950 | |
| Member of the Francoist Cortes | |
| In office 1943–1950 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 September 1875 Madrid |
| Died | 21 January 1950 Madrid |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Occupation | Professor · politician · lawyer |
Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta (1875–1950) was a Spanish jurist, politician and professor of the University of Valladolid who served as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts during the Civil Directory of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1925–1930). His institutional career ended with his office presiding over the Council of State in Francoist Spain.
Born on 21 September 1875 in Madrid,[1] he moved to Sigüenza when he was eight and later to Cáceres, where he did the latest years of his secondary school education and passed the Baccalaureate.[2] He started his university studies in law at the Central University of Madrid, graduated the University of Valladolid and obtained a PhD in the same area at the Central University.[3] He was employed by the Audience of Seville from 1902 to 1905, when he returned to Valladolid to work in the later city audience.[4] He became a lawyer in 1908 and in 1912 obtained the chair of Natural Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Valladolid.[5]
