State Representative Representative of National Life Activities , for the National Consultative Assembly
What position did José Olaguer Feliú take in Feb 1928?
José Olaguer Feliú José Olaguer Feliú y Ramírez ( October 25 , 1857 – November 21 , 1929 ) was a Spanish lieutenant general , Minister of War and politician . Biography . Olaguer Feliú was born on October 25 , 1857 in Manila , but both parents were Spanish of Catalan origin . In 1876 he entered the Academy of the General Staff . In 1882 he was promoted to lieutenant and served in different places in Spain . In 1890 he went to the Philippines with the rank of commandant . He was director of the School of Arts and Crafts in Manila . Olaguer Feliú took an active part in numerous military operations during the Philippines Campaign . He participated in the Battle of Kakarong de Sili in the island of Luzon on January 1 , 1897 , where the Commandant Olaguer Feliu achieved victory with only 600 men against 6.000 indigenous fighters katipuneros . As a result he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the prestigious Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand . Feliú was then appointed as Chief of Staff to the Commanding Officer of Luzon . A year later he was promoted to the rank of colonel in recognition of his performance in operations in the province of Zambales . Following the outbreak of the war with the United States , Olaguer Feliú remained in Manila where he performed distinguished services during the siege and blockade during the Battle of Manila . As Deputy Chief of Staff of the Captaincy General of Manila , Olaguer Feliú was one of the senior officers who participated in the surrender of the city . In 1898 he returned to mainland Spain with the rank of Colonel and in 1902 was appointed as chief of staff of the Captaincy General of Galicia . In 1910 he was promoted to the rank of Brigade General and was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Second Region , a position he held until 1915 . Then he was promoted to divisional general and given command of the Second Division . In 1912 Brigadier-General Feliú was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit . In 1916 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of San Hermenegildo . In 1917 he was appointed Military Governor of Cádiz , taking up command of the Ninth Division the same year . In 1918 Olaguer Feliú was received as an academic member of the Royal Hispanic-American Academy of Cadiz . In 1921 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and assumed the command of the Captaincy General of Catalonia until 1922 , where he was replaced by Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera , 2nd Marquis of Estella In March 1922 , Lieutenant-General Jose Olaguer Feliú was appointed as Minister of War by José Sánchez Guerra , Prime Minister of Spain . Olaguer Feliú occupied the position of Minister of War during one of the most difficult and turbulent periods in modern Spanish military and political history : firstly the Moroccan campaign exacerbated by the hesitation of the government , after the events of the Disaster of Annual in July 1921 ; and on the other hand the actions of the military defenses boards ( political juntas organised amongst the officer corps of the Spanish Army ) . All of these occurred in the middle of intense press and parliamentary debate about the report known as the Expediente Picasso ( concerning responsibility for the Annual disaster ) . He resigned in July 1922 . Then he was appointed Captain General of the Fifth Region of Aragon . In August 1923 Olaguer Feliú became Director General of Carabineros of Spain , where he improved the service conditions of the personnel of this frontier guard/customs force . Amongst other reforms he reduced the daily working hours to twelve hours . He organised the expansion and improvement of the Colleges of the Carabineros ( training academy ) . Feliú arranged for the repair of existing barracks asd well as the construction of new buildings ; as well as the creation of schools for the children of Carabineros . These improvements were undertaken at a time of budgetary constraints imposed by the Government , in spite of opposition from within both the Carabineros and Army hierarchy . Finally He increased the number of vacancies in the Alfonso XIII Orphans College of El Escorial and tripled the number of orphan students in the Pastoras Sisters College of Madrid . In 1924 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Christ by the Government of Portugal . On 14 December 1925 he was appointed as a member of the Army Review Board for Generals , Colonels ( Junta Classificadora de Ascensos de Generales , Coroneles y asimilados del Ejército in Spanish ) . In 1927 Olaguer Feliú was elected as State Representative and as Representative of National Life Activities , for the National Consultative Assembly , remaining in this position until 1928 . In 1927 by order of His Majesty the King , Lieutenant General José Olaguer Feliú retired as Director General of Carabineros and passed into the first reserve . On November 21 1929 Olaguer Feliú died in Madrid . External links . - Assemblyman Record as State Representative - Assemblyman Record as Representative of National Life Activities