Baldomero Argente del Castillo (1877–1965) was a Spanish politician, sociologist, lawyer, economist, writer and journalist. He was a disseminator of the ideas of georgism in Spain. A member of the Liberal Party, he briefly served as Minister of Supply from 1918 to 1919.
Baldomero Argente | |
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Minister of Supply | |
In office December 1918 – February 1919 | |
Preceded by | Pablo Garnica |
Succeeded by | Leonardo Rodríguez Díaz |
Personal details | |
Born | 6 February 1877 Province of Granada, Spain |
Died | 28 September 1965 Madrid, Spain |
Political party | Liberal Party (romanonista) |
Occupation | Journalist, politician, economist, sociologist, lawyer, writer |
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Biography
editBorn on 6 February 1877 in the province of Granada (sources report as birthplace either Jerez del Marquesado or "Granada"),[1][2][3] he was the natural son of a priest, and was raised by his aunt.[4]
He took baccalaureate studies in Granada.[2] He began university studies in Law in Valencia, ending them in Manila, earning the licentiate degree in 1896.[2] He served as lecturer in Mechanics at a school in the Philippines.[2] He also worked as lead writer for the Diario de Manila and as editor of El Porvenir de Bisayas.[2] He served as volunteer in a cavalry regiment, fighting against the insurgent tagalos.[2] Following the loss of the Philippines at the 1898 Spanish–American War, Argente returned to Mainland Spain by mid 1899.[2]
José Francos Rodríguez appointed him as ed-in-chief of El Globo.[2] He took an interest in the reading of books on Economy, Administration and Sociology, becoming an adept of the theories of Henry George.[2] Translator of the American economist's works,[5] Argente had a central role in the dissemination of the ideas of georgism in Spain.[6]
Argente opened a law firm in Madrid, and was appointed as substitute prosecutor of the Audiencia of Madrid.[7] He did not stop writing books and collaborating in newspapers, such as Diario Universal , Heraldo de Madrid, and El Imparcial,[7] as well as magazines,[7] such as Nuevo Mundo .[8]
He was elected member of the Congress of Deputies in representation of Alcaraz (Albacete) at the 1910 election.[9][10] He was elected as Madrid municipal councillor at the 1911 municipal election and was appointed as deputy major in 1912.[11][12] He earned a parliamentary seat in representation of Las Palmas at the 1914, 1916, 1918, 1919,[n. 1] 1920 and 1923 elections,[13] and as representative of Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz) at the 1919 election.[14]
A follower of the Count of Romanones,[1] he was appointed as Minister of Supply in December 1918, only to leave the portfolio in February 1919.[15]
He became a member of the executive board of the Asociación Española Pro Sociedad de Naciones (AEPSDN), established in April 1920 (repeating as member in the new board appointed in January 1929).[16]
He took office as member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on 1 June 1924, reading La Reforma Agraria, a discourse replied by Eduardo Sanz Escartín .[17]
During the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, Argente served as member of the National Assembly and the Council of State.[18]
References
edit- Informational notes
- ^ Although, as he was elected also in representation of Fregenal de la Sierra in 1919, he was chosen to remain exclusively as representative of that district after a draw.
- Citations
- ^ a b "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero". Diputación Provincial de Badajoz .
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Arco 1918, p. 558.
- ^ a b Cuenca Toribio & Miranda García 1992, p. 114.
- ^ Cuenca Toribio & Miranda García 1992, p. 105.
- ^ Martín Rodríguez 2000, p. 246.
- ^ Perdices de Blas 2015, p. 68.
- ^ a b c Arco 1918, p. 559.
- ^ Urrutia León 1999, p. 162.
- ^ "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 46. Elecciones 8.5.1910". Congress of Deputies.
- ^ "Candidatos a concejales. Baldomero Argente". La Correspondencia de España. LXII (19623). 3 November 1911.
- ^ Soldevilla 1919, p. 406.
- ^ "Los nuevos concejales madrileños". Las Ocurrencias. I (28): 3. ISSN 2444-6718.
- ^
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 47. Elecciones 8.3.1914". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 48. Elecciones 9.4.1916". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 49. Elecciones 24.2.1918". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 50. Elecciones 1.6.1919". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 51. Elecciones 19.12.1920". Congreso de los Diputados.
- "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 52. Elecciones 29.4.1923". Congreso de los Diputados.
- ^ "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 50. Elecciones 1.6.1919". Congreso de los Diputados.
- ^ "Reinado de Alfonso XIII. (25.11.1885/14.04.1931)". CSIC.
- ^ Pérez Casanova 2015, pp. 196, 296–297.
- ^ Yanguas Messía 1965, p. 252.
- ^ "Argente del Castillo, Baldomero. 53. 12.9.1927". Congreso de los Diputados.
- ^ Yanguas Messía 1965, p. 251.
- Bibliography
- Arco, Ángel del [in Spanish] (31 December 1918). "Siluetas granadinas. Baldomero Argente". La Alhambra. Granada: 557–560. ISSN 1889-8572.
- Cuenca Toribio, José Manuel; Miranda García, Soledad (1992). "Sociología de los ministros de la Restauración (1902–1931)". Revista de Estudios Políticos (75): 87–130. ISSN 0048-7694.
- Martín Rodríguez, Manuel (2000). "La Liga Española para el Impuesto Único y la Hacienda Municipal de Sevilla en 1914" (PDF). Revista de Estudios Regionales (56): 245–285. ISSN 0213-7585.
- Perdices de Blas, Luis (2015). "Manuel Martín Rodríguez. El georgismo en Espana. Liberalismo social en el primer tercio del siglo xx. Pamplona, Thomson Reuters-Civitas, 2014, 337 págs., ISBN: 978-84-470-4830-4". Investigaciones de Historia Económica. 11 (1): 68. doi:10.1016/j.ihe.2014.07.006.
- Pérez Casanova, Guillermo Jorge (2015). La búsqueda de la Unidad europea: el europeísmo español entre 1914 y 1931 (PDF). Alicante: Universidad de Alicante.
- Soldevilla, Fernando [in Spanish] (1919). El año político. 1918. Imprenta y Encuadernación de Julio Cosano.
- Urrutia León, Manuel M.ª (1999). "Unamuno y la revista Nuevo Mundo (artículos desconocidos)" (PDF). Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno. 34. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISSN 0210-749X.
- Yanguas Messía, José de (1965). "In memoriam del Excmo. Sr. académico de número D. Baldomero Argente del Castillo" (PDF). Anales de la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas. Madrid: Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas: 251–253.