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procurador en Cortes (1975–1976); Deputy Prime Minister of Spain (1975–1976); director (1974–1975); Capitán general de las Islas Baleares (1974–1974)."},{"q":"Where did Fernando de Santiago study?","a":"Fernando de Santiago was educated at General Military Academy."}],"related":[{"name":"José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jose-luis-rodriguez-zapatero"},{"name":"Mariano Rajoy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/mariano-rajoy"},{"name":"Felipe González","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/felipe-gonzalez"},{"name":"José María Aznar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jose-maria-aznar"},{"name":"Santiago Casares Quiroga","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/santiago-casares-quiroga"},{"name":"Adolfo Suárez","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolfo-suarez"},{"name":"Hipólito Gómez de las Roces","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hipolito-gomez-de-las-roces"},{"name":"Alberto Martín-Artajo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alberto-martin-artajo"},{"name":"Fernando de Parias Merry","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fernando-de-parias-merry"},{"name":"Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/leopoldo-calvo-sotelo"},{"name":"Carlos Arias Navarro","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/carlos-arias-navarro"},{"name":"Luis Carrero Blanco","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/luis-carrero-blanco"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/fernando-de-santiago-ea07f3d802.jpg","width":479,"height":570,"license":"CC0","credit":"TomyViss","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fernando_de_Santiago_y_D%C3%ADaz_de_Mend%C3%ADvil.png"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Fernando de Santiago","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_de_Santiago","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q547426","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547426","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil.png by TomyViss (CC0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fernando_de_Santiago_y_D%C3%ADaz_de_Mend%C3%ADvil.png","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Fernando de Santiago, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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