Eduardo Alonso Colmenares (October 13, 1820 – March 31, 1888) was a Spanish

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 lawyer

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, judge

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 and politician

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. He was Minister of Justice during the reign of Amadeo I

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, later becoming Minister of Public Works and the Economy during the First Spanish Republic

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.

Biography

Born in Corella

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 on October 13 1820, after qualifying in law in Madrid he practised law there and in Pamplona

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 after which he became a judge

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 and public prosecutor in the Courts of Seville

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, Barcelona

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 and Granada

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 until in 1859 when he moved to the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. He served as a judge in Havana

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, Cuba

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 and Santo Domingo

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, Dominican Republic

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 and Chief quartermaster in Cuba. With the Revolution of 1868, he returned to Spain and became active in politics, and was chosen deputy in Congress by the circumscription of Navarre Province in the elections of 1871, returning to be chosen in the elections of1872 for Logroño (province) too .

Later, in 1877, he would become a life senator of the Senate. Alonso Colmenares was Minister of Justice between 5 October 1871 and 26 May 1872 in the governments of Jose Malcampo and Monge and Práxedes Mateo Sagasta

Práxedes Mateo Sagasta

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. Later, and again under the presidency of Sagasta, he served again as Minister of Justice of Spain between 3 September and the 31 December of 1874.

He died on March 31 1888.