Fernando de Santiago

Fernando de Santiago
Prime Minister of Spain
Acting
In office
1 July 1976 – 5 July 1976
MonarchJuan Carlos I
DeputyJuan-Miguel Villar Mir
Preceded byCarlos Arias Navarro
Succeeded byAdolfo Suárez
Governor-General of the Spanish Sahara
In office
4 March 1971 – 24 April 1974
Preceded byJosé María Pérez de Lerma
Succeeded byFederico Gómez de Salazar
Personal details
Born
Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil

(1910-07-23)23 July 1910
Madrid, Spain
Died6 November 1994(1994-11-06) (aged 84)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyFalange (1936–1980)
Movimiento Nacional
SpouseMaría Ignacia Morales de Los Ríos y Palacio
Children5
Military service
Branch/serviceArmy
RankLieutenant general
CommandsSuperior Polytechnic Army College

Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil (23 July 1910 – 6 November 1994) was a conservative politician who served as deputy prime minister of Spain and briefly as acting prime minister during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s. He had earlier been a general in the Spanish Civil War and under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.


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