Juan Lamamié de Clairac
Juan Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios | |
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Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 15 November 1907 – 14 April 1910 | |
Constituency | Salamanca |
Personal details | |
Born | 24 June 1831 Integrist Party |
Children | José María Lamamié de Clairac y Colina and 7 more |
Education | University of Salamanca |
Occupation | Journalist and politician |
Juan Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios (24 June 1831 – 19 October 1919) was a Spanish journalist and traditionalist politician.
Biography
Family and youth
He descended from a noble family of French origin residing in Spain since the beginning of the 18th century. His father José Lamamié de Clairac y Tirado had been a colonel at the
His father moved to Madrid and left him at Salamanca under his family guardianship, considering his infirm health and few expectations of survival were unfit for travelling. He lived with his aunt María Trespalacios and his uncle Manuel Mercado Dusmet, who had been a
He studied at the University of Salamanca, obtaining a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1848, another in Jurisprudence in 1854 and later a licenciatura in 1856. He soon started his political activity and was elected a provincial deputy by the Alba de Tormes district in 1863.[1]
Carlist political engagement
After the
Clairac collected signatures for an exposition at the
In April 1870 he took part in the Junta católico-monárquica of
He was elected again a deputy in 1871 by the Salamanca district. The same year he was designated as president of the local Junta carlista de Armamento y Defensa (Carlist board of Arming and Defense) and was commissioned for one year to prepare the province for a future uprising. The Civil Guard imprisoned him in July 1872 along with other conspirers and sent him to the cárcel del Saladero at Madrid.[1]
His family obtained his release thanks to their contacts at the government, but Clairac refused to abandon the prison if his companions were not freed as well. After achieving the release of all of them he promised the governor of Madrid Fernando Sartorius Chacón to abandon the country and go into exile abroad.[1]
He took a ship at Santander and emigrated to Bayonne. Along with his wife Isabel Bermúdez de Castro he kept financing the Carlist rebels and gave economic support to those who were banished to France. In 1874 he was indulted after the coronation of Alfonso XII and could return to Spain. In 1876 he recovered his personal goods the government had seized. His wife would die the same year.[1] He married Petra Celestina de la Colina y Fernández Cavada in 1882,[2] with whom he had 8 children.[3]