page_title: Manuel Senante Martinez
section_title: Family and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel Senante Martinez / Family and youth
caption_attribution_description: Català: Vista del castell d'Alacant dominant tota la ciutat. Foto de Jean lauren (1816-1886).
context_page_description: Manuel Senante Martínez was a Spanish Traditionalist politician and publisher, until 1931 adhering to the Integrist current and afterwards active in the Carlist ranks. He is known mostly as the longtime editor-in-chief of the Madrid daily El Siglo Futuro. During 8 consecutive terms he served as the Integrist deputy to the Cortes.
context_section_description: Manuel was born to a distinguished Alicantine family. His paternal grandfather, Manuel Senante Sala, was professor of Retórica y Poética at Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza of Alicante and its longtime director (1854-1889). His father, Emilio Senante Llaudes (died 1916), was in 1881-1909 teaching geography and history at the very same institute, in 1891-1904 also serving as its director. In 1907 he assumed directorship of the local Escuela Normal de Maestros. Senante Llaudes wrote a number of textbooks in history, fairly popular in secondary education across Levante. Apart from his educative posts, he was also active as a lawyer, periodista and local politician. His brother Francisco Senante Llaudes was a locally recognized composer and maestro.
  At unspecified time Senante Llaudes married a girl from Alicante, María Teresa Martínez Torrejón (died 1885). None of the sources consulted provides information on her ancestors; her brother Antonio Martínez Torrejón  would later become a locally known personality, deputy-mayor, poet and publisher, director of the local daily El eco de la provincia. The couple had at least 3 children, Manuel born as the oldest one. His younger brother Jose died in infancy; another one, Joaquin, perished at 16 years of age.
  The young Manuel was brought up in a fervently Catholic ambience; in the 1890s he studied law in Barcelona and Madrid. By the turn of the century he returned to Alicante, launching his own career as a lawyer in 1897. Representing his clients in cases ranging from private to commercial law, he gradually grew to prominence and got engaged in politically sensitive cases, like a dispute over a forcibly closed local parish cemetery, speaking for the Alicantine San Nicolás community before the Supreme Court; in 1903 he was already one of the Alicante municipal judges. Manuel Senante married Joséfa Esplá Rizo (1870-1957), daughter of the Alicantine merchant marine captain and also a local Alicantine municipal counselor. The couple had 6 daughters (3 of them became nuns) and a son, Manuel Senante Esplá, also a Carlist activist. A lawyer, in the 1930s he defended in court individuals charged with engagement in Sanjurjada. He followed in the footsteps of his father and entered the publishing business, serving as member of the board of El Siglo Futuro in the 1930s; during early Francoism he served as municipal judge in Madrid. Senante's daughter Immaculada married Francisco Urries, catedrático of philosophy in Madrid. The family initially lived at the estate of Santa Rosa in San Juan, now a bedroom suburb of Alicante; in the early 20th century it moved permanently to Madrid.
caption: Alicante, 1870s
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