Juan Bautista Topete
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Juan Bautista Topete | |
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3rd President of the Ministerial Council of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 27 December 1870 – 2 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Juan Prim |
Succeeded by | Himself (as President of the Ministerial Council of Kingdom of Spain) |
1st President of the Ministerial Council of Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 2 January – 4 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Preceded by | Himself (as President of the Ministerial Ocuncil of the Provisioanl Government) |
Succeeded by | Francisco Serrano |
Acting President of the Ministerial Council of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain[1] | |
In office 25 August – 21 September 1869 | |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Juan Prim |
Succeeded by | Juan Prim |
Acting President of the Ministerial Council of Kingdom of Spain[2] | |
In office 26 May – 5 June 1872 | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Preceded by | Francisco Serrano |
Succeeded by | Francisco Serrano |
5th Minister of State of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 27 December 1870 – 2 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Práxedes Mateo Sagasta |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Minister of State of Kingdom of Spain) |
1st Minister of State of Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 2 January – 4 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Preceded by | Himself (as Minister of State of Provisional Government) |
Succeeded by | Cristino Martos |
2nd Minister of Overseas of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 21 May – 21 July 1869 (Acting) | |
Prime Minister | Juan Prim |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera |
Succeeded by | Manuel Becerra Bermúdez |
4th Minister of Overseas of Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 21 December 1871 – 20 February 1872 | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Práxedes Mateo Sagasta |
Preceded by | Víctor Balaguer i Cirera |
Succeeded by | Cristóbal Martín de Herrera |
2nd Minister of War of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 27 December 1870 – 2 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Juan Prim |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Minister of War of Kingdom of Spain) |
1st Minister of War of Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 2 January – 4 January 1871 (Acting) | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Himself |
Preceded by | Himself (as Minister of War of Provisional Government) |
Succeeded by | Francisco Serrano (acting) |
2nd and 4th Minister of the Navy of Provisional Government of the Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 8 October 1868 – 6 November 1869 | |
Prime Minister | Francisco Serrano Juan Prim |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Antonio Estrada González Guiral |
Succeeded by | Juan Prim (acting) |
In office 9 January – 20 March 1870 | |
Prime Minister | Juan Prim |
Regent | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | Juan Prim (acting) |
Succeeded by | José María Beránger Ruiz de Apodaca |
3rd Minister of the Navy of Kingdom of Spain | |
In office 26 May – 13 June 1872 | |
Monarch | Amadeo I |
Prime Minister | Francisco Serrano |
Preceded by | José Malcampo y Monge |
Succeeded by | José María Beránger Ruiz de Apodaca |
5th Minister of the Navy of First Spanish Republic | |
In office 3 January – 13 May 1874 | |
President | Francisco Serrano |
Prime Minister | Francisco Serrano Juan de Zavala |
Preceded by | José Oveyro y Villavicencio |
Succeeded by | Rafael Rodríguez de Araias Villavicencio |
Personal details | |
Born | Juan Bautista Topete y Carballo 24 May 1821 San Andrés Tuxtla, New Spain |
Died | 29 October 1885 (aged 64 years) Madrid, Spain |
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Juan Bautista Topete y Carballo (24 May 1821 – 29 October 1885) was a Spanish Navy officer and politician. He was born in San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico.[3] His father and grandfather were also Spanish admirals. He entered the navy at the age of seventeen, cut out a Carlist vessel in 1839, and became a midshipman at twenty-two, obtaining the cross of naval merit for saving the life of a sailor in 1841 and became a lieutenant in 1845. He served on the West Indian station for three years, and was engaged in repressing the slave trade before he was promoted frigate captain in 1857. He was promoted chief of staff to the fleet during the Moroccan War, 1859, after which he received the crosses of Saint Ferdinad and Saint Hermenegild.[3]
Having been appointed chief of the Carrara arsenal at Cádiz, he was elected a deputy and joined the Union Liberal of O'Donnell and Serrano. He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.[3]
On his return to Spain, Topete was made port captain at Cádiz, which enabled him to take the lead of the conspiracy in the fleet against the Bourbon monarchy. He sent the steamer "Buenaventura" to the Canary Islands for Serrano and the other exiles; and when Prim and Sagasta arrived from Gibraltar, the whole fleet under the influence of Topete took such an attitude that the people, garrison and authorities of Cádiz followed suit.[3]
Topete took part in all the posts of the revolutionary government, accepted the post of marine minister, was elected a member of the Cortes in 1869, and supported the pretensions of Antoine, Duke of Montpensier. He initially opposed the election of Amadeus, but latter sat on several cabinets seats of that king's reign. He was prosecuted by the federal republic of 1873 and again took charge of the marine under Serrano in 1874. After the Restoration, he was held aloof for many years, but finally accepted the presidency of a naval board in 1877. Later, he sat in the Senate as a life peer until his death in Madrid.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Juan Prim was the de jure officeholder from 18 June 1869 to 30 December 1870. As a result of a travel to France, Minister of the Navy Juan Bautista Topete took on the ordinary discharge of duties from 26 August to 21 September 1869.
- ^ Serrano at the head of the Army of the North, Juan Bautista Topete appointed interim until his arrival.
- ^ a b c d e Chisholm 1911.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Topete, Juan Bauptista". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 49. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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