Eduardo Callejo de la Cuesta (1875–1950) was a Spanish jurist, politician and professor of the University of Valladolid who served as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts during the Civil Directory of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship (1925–1930).
His institutional career ended with his office presiding over the Council of State in Francoist Spain.
Born on 21 September 1875 in Madrid,[1] he moved to Sigüenza when he was eight and later to Cáceres, where he did the latest years of his secondary school education and passed the Baccalaureate.
[5] From 1925 to 193, he served as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of the Primo de Rivera dictatorship.
[7][8] In 1930, soon after the end of the Primo de Rivera government, he joined the National Monarchist Union along other nostalgics for the regime such as José Calvo Sotelo, Ramiro de Maeztu and the son of the dictator, José Antonio.