José Antonio Aguirre

✶March 6, 1904

†March 22, 1960

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José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Spanish politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic.

Basque association football player and politician (1904–1960)

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Biography from the article José Antonio Aguirre on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.