Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)
after the abdication of Alfonso XIII on 14 April there was no official head of state, meaning that the Prime Minister, officially known as President of the Government, was in effect the highest office in the land.
Read more about this topic: President Of Spain
Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or republic:
“The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)