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Pascual Madoz was born on May 7, 1806, in Pamplona, Spain.
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Pascual Madoz was born on May 7, 1806, in Pamplona, Spain.
In 1813, he moved with his family to Barbastro (Huesca), where he went to the school of San Lorenzo. He studied the law at the University of Zaragoza in 1823. Later he participated in the defense of the castle of Monzón (Huesca), before the siege by French troops, which cost him a few months in prison. In 1825 he received the title of Bachelor in Law.
In 1831, after completing his studies, he was forced into exile for political reasons to France, country where he remained until 1833, in the cities of Tours and Tulle. After the Amnesty enacted in the Regency of María Cristina, he returned to Spain. He settled in Barcelona, there served his profession as a lawyer and joined the Catalan industrial interests, defended at all costs by him from the newspaper El Catalán (1834-1836). Elected during the progressive biennium, on August 11, 1835 he was appointed mayor of Barcelona, and on November 19 of that same year, Governor of the Valle de Arán. On the constituents of 1836-1837, he was elected Deputy for Lleida province which represented continuously until 1840. In a letter written in Madrid, on 27 June 1839, and published in the gibberish (No. 154) the next day, he denied flatly that the jovellanistas worked it out Deputy for the province of Huesca. It established a Board of Government of Alto Aragón, which tried to resist the triumph of reaction, and was also President of the Board of Lleida in Barbastro. Three months in prison earned him the matter.
In 1840 he supported the revolution, but three years later turned against the regime of Espartero. He won a seat on the Supreme Court of Justice, where he presented the draft law of civil and ecclesiastical confiscation with opposition from some sectors, especially the Catholics, which made him resign his office. In 1844 he was imprisoned for three months in the company of the jurist and friend Manuel Cortina.
After the revolution of 1854, on 8 August 1854 he was appointed civil Governor of Barcelona, the city where had many sympathies. Conciliator was specifically and comprehensively with worker claims, during the time he held this post, until October 20, when they left to return to his seat of Deputy and preside over the courts. From January 21 until July 6, 1855 he held the portfolio of finance; in his position it presented its draft of confiscation Act that, despite being approved, had severe competitions, among others that of the Crown, all of which prompted him to resign from their posts. In 1856, it resisted the coup d'etat of O'Donnell at the forefront of the national militia. He was one of the founders of "The peninsula", a society of insurance against the fifth, which constituted one of the most despicable businesses of the era. Between 1866 and 1867, he was again elected Deputy for Barcelona. He took an active part in the revolution of 1868 with Prim and then was Governor of Madrid for a few days. He was elected to be part of the Commission, but not could carry to term this mission, because the death surprised him on December 13, 1870, in Genoa when he traveled.
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