monarch branch death_date children nationality birth_date term_end commands death_place order term_start spouse rank name vicepresident predecessor birth_place party office successor article_title birth_name
juan carlos i army 6 november 1994 5 spain 23 july 1910 july 3 , 1976 april 24 , 1974 superior polytechnic army college madrid , spain 72nd democratic transition -lrb- 1975 -- 1977 -rrb- president of the government of spain 2nd of july 1 , 1976 march 4 , 1971 san fermín de los navarros lieutenant general fernando de santiago y díaz juan miguel villar mir carlos arias navarro josé maría pérez de lerma madrid , spain falange -lrb- 1936-1980 -rrb- movimiento nacional governor-general of the spanish sahara adolfo suárez federico gómez de salazar fernando de santiago y díaz
 fernando de santiago y díaz de mendívil
fernando de santiago y díaz

fernando de santiago y díaz de mendívil -lrb- july 23 , 1910 -- november 6 , 1994 -rrb- was a conservative deputy and interim prime minister of spain during the spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s .
he had earlier been a general in the spanish civil war and under the dictatorship of francisco franco .
as an active soldier , santiago participated in the second moroccan war in the 1920s and threw in with the spanish nationalists in the 1936 civil war , rising to the rank of lieutenant general .
during the franco regime , he served as a professor and later director of the `` escuela politécnica superior del ejército '' -lrb- superior polytechnic army college -rrb- .
in the waning years of franco 's rule , from march 4 , 1971 to april 24 , 1974 , the dictator gave santiago a task as political as it was military : serve as governor-general of spanish sahara after spanish forces had massacred members of a native independence movement in the `` zemla intifada '' .
santiago presided over the introduction of limited home-rule in the region , which was eventually decolonized a few years later .
following the dictator 's death , november 20 , 1975 , santiago was named `` vicepresidente del gobierno para la defensa '' -lrb- deputy prime minister for defense -rrb- of spain 's first post-franco government , under prime minister carlos arias navarro .
following arias ' resignation , santiago briefly served as interim prime minister , july 1-july 3 , 1976 .
under the administration of adolfo suárez , santiago remained the principal deputy prime minister but gave up oversight of the defense ministry .
while arias navarro had been considered a francoist , suárez would turn out to be a reformer , putting spain on the road to democracy .
santiago would become a harsh critic of suárez ' government .
he submitted a resignation letter shortly after suárez announced he would support the `` ley para la reforma political '' -lrb- political reform law -rrb- and its call for open elections ; his resignation was accepted september 21 , 1976 .
out of office , santiago continued to meet with conservative military officials disturbed by spain 's democratization and liberalization .
in september 1977 , he met with a group of army leaders -- including jaime milans del bosch -- who secretly wrote a letter to king juan carlos i asking him to undertake `` actions to rescue the destiny of the fatherland '' .
bosch would later be implicated in the `` 23-f '' coup attempt , february 23 , 1981 .
he married at san fermín de los navarros in madrid on 6 january 1934 maría ignacia morales de los ríos y palacio , daughter of santiago morales de los ríos y chávarri -lrb- b. madrid , salvador y san nicolás , 1 may 1886 - ? -rrb-
and wife -lrb- m. madrid , santa teresa , 12 december 1910 -rrb- ana maría de palacio y velasco -lrb- 29 april 1890 - ? -rrb-
, daughter of the 6th marquess of casa palacio and wife the 1st marchioness of villarreal de Álava and grandaunt of loyola de palacio and ana de palacio , and had issue : ana maría de santiago y morales de los ríos maría ignacia de santiago y morales de los ríos maría fernanda de santiago y morales de los ríos maría del dulce nombre de santiago y morales de los ríos fernando de santiago y morales de los ríos
