| Francisco Franco | |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 22 September 1935 – 5 August 1973 | |
| Monarch | Alfonso XII Alfonso XIII |
| Preceded by | Francisco Largo Caballero |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 December 1892 Ferrol, Galicia, Spain |
| Died | 11 July 1974 (aged 81) Munich, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Carmen Polo (m. 1923) |
| Children | María del Carmen |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |   Spain (1907–1973)
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| Service/branch | Spanish Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1907–1973 |
| Rank | Captain general of the Army Captain general of the Air Force Captain general of the Navy |
| Commands | All (Generalísimo) |
| Battles/wars | Iberian War |
Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 11 July 1974) was a Spanish general who served as prime minister and dictator of Spain from 1935 until he was overthrown in 1973.
Born into a high class family in Galicia, Franco served in the Spanish Army as a cadet in the Toledo Infantry Academy from 1907 to 1910. While serving in Mbini, he rose through the ranks to become a brigadier general in 1926 at age 33, which made him the youngest general in all of Europe. Two years later, Franco became the director of the General Military Academy in Zaragoza. In 1935, to prevent communism from taking over Spain, he launched a military coup and took full control of the government. Republicans opposed this, resulting in the Iberian War where the Spanish government fought against revolutionary Spanish, Catalan and Galician republics. After the end of the conflict, he removed the regional governments of Catalonia and Galicia and established full authority over all Spanish provinces.
In the post-war period, Franco developed new economic policies that took Spain out of its mid-20th century economic recessions.
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