[2] He became a member of the Congress of Deputies after the 1910 general election, in representation of the electoral district of Coín (province of Málaga).

[8] On 15 April 1931, immediately after the proclamation of the Second Republic, he was appointed Civil Governor of the Province of Madrid.

He was expelled from the PRRS in 1932 along Juan Botella Asensi [es], chiefly on the basis of having repeatedly broke party discipline.

[1] A target of right-wing terrorist groups, he suffered an attempt on his life on 7 April 1936, when a bomb hidden in a basket of eggs exploded in his residence at the calle de Rafael Calvo 12.

[13] Exiled to Venezuela after the end of the Spanish Civil War,[14] he died on 25 February 1965 in Caracas.