Background
Francesc Cambó was born in Verges in the comarca of Baix Empordà, Catalonia, Spain.
Francesc Cambó was born in Verges in the comarca of Baix Empordà, Catalonia, Spain.
University of Barcelona.
He was minister in several Spanish governments. He also supported a number of artistic and cultural endeavours, especially, the translation of Greek and Latin classical texts to Catalan. He founded the Lliga Regionalista, a regionalist conservative party, in 1901.
His party, the Lliga, was the main representative of the Catalan regionalist or nationalist movement.
During the Spanish Civil War, Cambò financed and supported the Rebel faction. in fear that a Republican victory would lead to a leftist Republic controlled by the Soviet Union. He died in Argentina in 1947.
He was one of the first to propose an autonomous system of government for Catalonia, although, at the time, he only managed to achieve a fusion of the four provincial entities in Catalonia (Mancomunitat de Catalunya), with limited power. However, in 1931, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, a left-wing nationalist party, won the elections and formed the new autonomous Catalan government (Generalitat of Catalonia).
He was elected a member of the Spanish parliament several times, and was twice appointed minister in a Spanish conservative government.
