List of Basques - Political Figures

Political Figures

  • José Antonio Aguirre
  • Sabino Arana
  • José Antonio Ardanza Garro
  • Xabier Arzalluz
  • Miguel Ángel Blanco
  • Fernando Buesa
  • René Cassin.
  • Pete T. Cenarrusa, former Idaho secretary of state
  • Vicente Emparan
  • Carlos Garaikoetxea, former Basque President.
  • Dominique-Joseph Garat, writer and politician.
  • Juan José Ibarretxe, former Basque President.
  • Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria.
  • José de Iturrigaray, viceroy of New Spain.
  • Paul Laxalt, former governor and senator of Nevada.
  • Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez Former Basque President
  • Jaime Mayor Oreja
  • Telesforo de Monzón, founder of Ertzaina and the Herri Batasuna party.
  • Martín de Mujica y Buitrón, governor of Chile from 1646 to 1649
  • Arnaldo Otegi, former leader Batasuna party
  • Ramón Rubial Cavia, Spanish Socialist leader
  • Étienne de Silhouette, Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV.
  • Don Diego de Gardoqui, diplomat
  • Patxi López Basque President.
  • Antonio Basagoiti Leader of the Basque Popular Party.
  • José Luis de Arrese Leading Politician with Falange
  • María San Gil Former leader of the Basque Popular Party.
  • José María de Areilza Politician and diplomat.
  • José Félix de Lequerica Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain.
  • Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Galician polititian of Basque ancestry.
  • Iñigo Urkullu president of the PNV

Read more about this topic:  List Of Basques

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or figures:

    “In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
    With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
    people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)