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Julián Besteiro

1870 - 1940

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Julián Besteiro Fernández ([xuˈljam besˈtejɾo], 21 September 1870 – 27 September 1940) was a Spanish socialist politician, elected to the Cortes Generales and in 1931 as Speaker of the Constituent Cortes of the Spanish Republic. He also was elected several times to the town council of Madrid. During the same period, he was a university professor of philosophy and logic, and dean of the department at the University of Madrid. As the leader of the moderate wing of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement with the nationalist faction during the last year of the Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Julián Besteiro is the 15,057th most popular politician (down from 14,404th in 2024), the 1,568th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,492nd in 2019) and the 391st most popular Spanish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Julián Besteiro ranks 15,057 out of 19,576. Before him are František Ladislav Rieger, Charles Lang, Sakari Tuomioja, Roger B. Taney, Hamilcar I of Carthage, and Laodice II. After him are Phạm Hùng, Bob Dadae, Georg Friedrich von Martens, Hassan Habibi, Athanasios Miaoulis, and Roman Starovoyt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Julián Besteiro ranks 138. Before him are R. B. Bennett, José María Moncada, Ivan Perestiani, Hermann Harms, Sascha Schneider, and Frank Norris. After him are Edwin Foster Coddington, DeLisle Stewart, Lloyd Hildebrand, Charles Homer Haskins, John Marin, and Marcus Loew. Among people deceased in 1940, Julián Besteiro ranks 160. Before him are Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Albert Richter, Charley Chase, Wilhelm Anderson, and Agnes Ayres. After him are Georgia Coleman, Alicia Boole Stott, Wilfred Lucas, Kalliroi Parren, Yuly Shokalsky, and Manuel González García.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Julián Besteiro ranks 1,568 out of 3,355. Before him are Pedro Solbes (1942), Urbano Navarrete Cortés (1920), Eladio Silvestre (1940), Rosario Flores (1963), Ana Torroja (1959), and Francisco Martínez Soria (1902). After him are Abelardo Fernández (1970), Marcelo González Martín (1918), Maria del Mar Bonet (1947), Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823), Xosé María Díaz Castro (1914), and Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez (1852).

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Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Julián Besteiro ranks 391. Before him are Joaquín Sánchez de Toca (1852), Juan Ruiz de Apodaca, 1st Count of Venadito (1754), Francisco Silvela (1843), Ernest Lluch (1937), Esperanza Aguirre (1952), and Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols (1872). After him are Maria del Mar Bonet (1947), Teresa Ribera (1969), Ada Colau (1974), Ricardo Samper (1881), Joaquín Chapaprieta (1871), and Fernando de Santiago (1910).

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