Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez de Valcárcel and the second or maternal family name is Nebreda.

Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel y Nebreda (25 December 1917 – 22 October 1976) was a Spanish falangist politician and State lawyer, who served in important positions during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel
Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel in 1975
President of the Regency Council of Spain
In office 20 – 22 November 1975
Preceded by	Francisco Franco as Head of the Spanish State
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos I as King of Spain
President of the Cortes Españolas
In office 27 November 1969 – 5 December 1975
Preceded by	Antonio Iturmendi Bañales
Succeeded by	Torcuato Fernández-Miranda
Personal details
Born	(1917-12-25)25 December 1917 Burgos, Spain
Died	22 October 1976(1976-10-22) (aged 58) Madrid, Spain
Political party	FE de las JONS (until 1937) FET y de las JONS (1937–1976)

Biography

Born in December 1917 in Burgos to a bourgeois family,^[1] he joined the Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU) in 1934.^[1] A camisa vieja Falangist,^{[note 1]} he entered the Civil War as volunteer in a Bandera of Falange.^[1]

From 27 November 1969 to 5 December^[3] 1975 he served as the President of the Francoist Cortes.

He was a chief endorser of the Asociación Nacional para el Estudio de Problemas Actuales [es] (ANEPA).^{[4][note 2]}

In the capacity of President of the Council of Regency, he briefly served as acting Head of State, from Franco's death on 20 November to 22 November 1975, when then Prince Juan Carlos took an oath and was proclaimed King of Spain.

He died on 22 October 1976 in the Ciudad Sanitaria La Paz in Madrid.^[6] His corpse was buried at the San José cemetery in Burgos.^[7] On 5 January 1977 he was posthumously bestowed the nobiliary title of Count of Rodríguez de Valcárcel.^[8]

Notes

1. According to Stanley G. Payne, he became a member of the Falange in the beginning of the Civil War.^[2]
2. According to a 1974 report by the Ministry of Information and Tourism, he was the direct creator of the association, founded under the acquiescence of Franco.^[5]