Ricardo Samper e Ibáñez was a Spanish

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 political figure during the Second Spanish Republic

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Samper served as Valencia mayor between 1920 and 1923. In 1931 he was elected as Member of the Parliament with Alejandro Lerroux

Alejandro Lerroux

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's Radical Republican Party

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. He served first as Minister of Labor and later as Minister of Industry.

On 28 April or 2 May 1934, he was appointed as the 127th President of the Government

Prime Minister of Spain

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when Lerroux quit. Samper quit himself on 4 October or 24 October, after losing CEDA's support. He served in the following government for one month, after which he quit politics.