Cristino Martos y Balbí

Cristino Martos y Balbí (13 September 1830, in

Juan Prim, 1st Marquis of los Castillejos, and held other important offices such as Mayor of Madrid. He was a member of the Radical Democratic Party

.

Biography

He was educated there and at

Queen Isabella

. He distinguished himself as a journalist on El Tribuno.
He joined

Emilio Castelar y Ripoll, and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta it the unsuccessful movements of 1866, and was obliged to go abroad. His political career had not prevented Martos from rising into note at the bar, where he was successful for forty years.^[1]

After remaining abroad three years, he returned to Spain to take his seat in the Cortes of 1869 after the revolution of 1868. Throughout the revolutionary period he represented in cabinets with Prim, Serrano and

Marshal Serrano, with Sagasta and Ulloa.^[2]

Martos returned to the Bar in May 1874, and quietly looked on when the restoration took place at the end of that year. He stuck to his democratic ideals for some years, even going to Biarritz in 1881 to be present at a republican congress presided over by Ruiz Zorilla. Shortly afterwards Martos joined the dynastic Left organized by Marshal Serrano,

House of Deputies. Having failed to form a rival party against Sagasta, Martos subsided into political insignificance, despite his great talent as an orator and debater, and died in Madrid on 16 January 1893.^[3]

References

^ Chisholm 1911, p. 803.
^ Chisholm 1911, pp. 803–804.
^ Chisholm 1911, p. 804.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Martos, Christino". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 803–804.
Cristino Maros y Balbi at Base documental d'Història Contemporània de Catalunya (in Spanish)

Political offices
Preceded by Manuel Silvela	Minister of State 1 November 1869 – 9 January 1870	Succeeded by Práxedes Mateo Sagasta
Preceded by Juan Bautista Topete	Minister of State 4 January 1871 – 24 June 1871	Succeeded by The Marquis of Mendigorría Acting
Preceded by Augusto Ulloa	Minister of State 13 June 1872 – 11 February 1873	Succeeded by Emilio Castelar

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[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911803-1] Chisholm 1911, p. 803.

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911803–804-2] Chisholm 1911, pp. 803–804.

[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911804-3] Chisholm 1911, p. 804.

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