Diego de Medrano y Treviño
Diego de Medrano y Treviño | |
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| Deputy to the Cortes | |
| In office 1820–1822 | |
| Monarch | Ferdinand VII of Spain |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 1822–1823 | |
| Preceded by | José María Moscoso y Quiroga |
| Procurator of the Cortes | |
| In office 1834–1836 | |
| Monarch | Joseph I or Napoleon I |
| Vice President of the Estate of Proceres | |
| In office 1835–1836 | |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| Assumed office 1835 | |
| Prime Minister | Francisco Martínez de la Rosa |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 November 1784 |
| Died | 2 July 1853 (aged 68) Ciudad Real, Kingdom of Spain |
| Party | Liberal Triennium |
| Profession | Military officer, Politician |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | |
| Branch/service | Army |
| Rank | lieutenant colonel of the Royal Corps of Artillery, Aide-de-camp to the staff of the Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo |
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Diego de Medrano y Treviño (November 13, 1784 – July 2, 1853) was a noble from the House of Medrano serving as a Basque-Spanish military officer, a liberal politician during the reign of Ferdinand VII, and a technical essayist reformer. Diego served as the Minister of the Interior of Spain in 1822 and again in 1835 in the Government presided over by Martínez de la Rosa, Senator of Spain during the reign of Isabel II, founder of the first Royal Basque Economic Societies of Friends of the Country (1834), civil governor of the province of Ciudad-Real from 1833 to 1834, founder of the Savings Banks of Spain (1835), Vice President of the Estates Proceres and Chamber of Peers (1835).
Diego was active in the entire Peninsular War, obtaining the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Royal Corps of Artillery. Medrano went to war against the royal troops of the "Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis" at the end of 1823. The Senate of Spain holds an important archive with 17 of Medrano's hand-written correspondences.