13 Facts About Antonio Maura

Antonio Maura Montaner was Prime Minister of Spain on five separate occasions.

In 1878, Antonio Maura married Constancia Gamazo y Calvo, the sister of German Gamazo.

Antonio Maura was elected a Congressman at Spain's Cortes Generales for Palma de Mallorca in 1881, which he would represent until 1923 in successive legislatures.

Antonio Maura went served as Minister of Grace and Justice from November 1894 to March 1895 under the same administration.

Antonio Maura was appointed by President Francisco Silvela as Minister of the Interior from December 1902 to July 1903.

Antonio Maura first assumed the presidency of the Council of Ministers in December 1903.

Antonio Maura was President again between January 1907 and October 1909, in a period of rare stability that earned the nickname "Long Government".

Antonio Maura was a hero of a youth movement, the Mauristas, that wanted him as a new head of state of Spain at a time of substantial resentment of King Alfonso XIII.

That and Antonio Maura's ambition caused him to fall out with the King.

Antonio Maura later headed coalition cabinets with other parties but his time in power was limited.

Antonio Maura was President between March and November of 1918, again in 1919, and between August 1921 and March 1922, following the Disaster of Annual.

Antonio Maura was elected to the Moral and Political Sciences Academy, and the Fine Arts of San Fernando, in recognition of his gifts as a watercolorist.

Antonio Maura died on December 13,1925, while painting in El Canto del Pico, Torrelodones.