Assassination
On 8 March 1921 in Madrid, Dato was shot by Lluís Nicolau, Pere Mateu and Ramon Casanelles, 3 Catalan anarchists, while being driven from the parliament building and in front of the Puerta de Alcalá. This was the second murder of a Spanish prime minister in less than a decade; in 1912 Jose Canalejas had been killed similarly.
Dato was a member of the International Permanent Court in The Hague (he became Vice-President in 1913), member of the International Law Institute, administrator of the bank firm 'Banco Hipotecario' and President of the National Institute of Social Security, the Council of Public Instruction and the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. The King Alfonso XIII of Spain posthumously bestowed the Duchy of Dato to his widow.
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