Eduardo Ortega y Gasset

Born in Madrid on 11 April 1882.^[1] He was the older brother of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.^[2]

He became a member of the Congress of Deputies after the 1910 general election, in representation of the electoral district of Coín (province of Málaga). He joined the Liberal fraction.^[3] He renovated his seat at the 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920 and 1923 elections.^[4]

He joined the Freemasonry in 1922.^[1] During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Ortega y Gasset self-exiled to Paris; he became there a close acquaintance of Miguel de Unamuno,^[5] collaborating along the latter and Blasco Ibáñez in the España con Honra magazine.^[6] He was one of the founders of the Radical Socialist Republican Party (PRRS) in 1929.^[7]

He was among the signatories of the Pact of San Sebastián on 17 August 1930.^[8]

On 15 April 1931, immediately after the proclamation of the Second Republic, he was appointed Civil Governor of the Province of Madrid.^[9] In June 1931, he was replaced as civil governor by Emilio Palomo Aguado.^[9] He ran as candidate for the 1931 Constituent election in the constituencies of Ciudad Real, Guadalajara and Granada; elected in the three constituencies, he chose to remain as legislator representing the first constituency.

He was expelled from the PRRS in 1932 along Juan Botella Asensi [es], chiefly on the basis of having repeatedly broke party discipline.^[10][4] They formed then the Izquierda Radical Socialista [es] ("Radical Socialist Left").^[4] By that time he was Master of the Logia Luis Simarro No. 3 in Madrid.^[1]

A target of right-wing terrorist groups, he suffered an attempt on his life on 7 April 1936, when a bomb hidden in a basket of eggs exploded in his residence at the calle de Rafael Calvo 12.^[11][12]

He was appointed Attorney General of the Republic in December 1936.^[13]

Exiled to Venezuela after the end of the Spanish Civil War,^[14] he died on 25 February 1965 in Caracas.^[15]

• — (1935). Etiopía. El conflicto italo-abisinio.^[16]

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