Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil (July 23 1910 – November 6 1994) was a conservative deputy and interim prime minister of Spain during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s. He had earlier been a general in the Spanish Civil War and under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.As an active soldier Santiago participated in the Second Moroccan War in the 1920s and threw in with the Spanish Nationalists in the 1936 Civil War rising to the rank of lieutenant general.
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active years end date
1974-04-24, 1976-07-03
active years start date
1971-03-04, 1976-07-01
birth date
1910-07-23
birth place
Spain, Madrid
death date
1994-11-06
death place
Spain, Madrid
military branch
Spanish Army
military command
Superior Polytechnic Army College
monarch
Juan Carlos I of Spain
nationality
Spain
office
Governor-General of the Spanish Sahara
order in office
( 2nd of Democratic Transition (1975–1977) ), 72nd President of the Government of Spain
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