Estanislao Figueras y de Moragas was a Spanish politician who served as the first President of the First Spanish Republic

First Spanish Republic

The First Spanish Republic was the political regime that existed in Spain between the parliamentary proclamation on 11 February 1873 and 29 December 1874 when General Arsenio Martínez-Campos's pronunciamento marked the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration in Spain...

 from 12 February to 11 June 1873).

Figueras was born at Barcelona

Barcelona

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.

He led the Republican Party after Queen Isabella II

Isabella II of Spain

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 was overthrown in 1868. He briefly became President after King Amadeo

Amadeo I of Spain

Amadeo I was the only King of Spain from the House of Savoy...

 abdicated. He was succeeded as President by Francisco Pi y Margall

Francisco Pi y Margall

Francisco Pi y Margall was a liberal Spanish statesman and romanticist writer. He was briefly president of the short-lived First Spanish Republic in 1873.-Early life:...

. After the 1875 restoration of the monarchy he withdrew from public life.

He died in Madrid

Madrid

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in 1882.