Figueras

Figueras, ESTANISLAO, a Spanish statesman, was born at Barcelona, 13th November 1819. Although he joined the republican party in 1840, he was not elected to the Cortes until 1850. For taking part in republican plots in 1866 he was in the following year cast into prison; but after the expulsion of Queen Isabella he became a member of the republican committee of government. Finally the abdication of King Amadeus, in 1873, opened the way for Figueras, and he became president of the Spanish republic; but, owing to differences with his colleagues in power, he was constrained to resign office after only about four months' exercise of authority. Retiring from public life, he died at Madrid on 11th November 1882.