Javier Santamaría was born in Abades, province of Segovia on 5 April 1951[1] the son of two local school teachers.
[2] His political career began in 1991 when he was elected mayor of his hometown for the PP, office he held until 1996 to take charge of the Territorial Delegation of the Junta of Castile and León.
[2] He had previously worked as a Maths teacher at the IES Giner de los Ríos in Segovia.
[2] In 2003 he was elected president of the Segovia Provincial Deputation, and until 2011, when he returned to teach Maths at the same school he had left 15 years earlier.
[1] Santamaría was admitted to the Segovia health care complex on 19 March 2020, affected by COVID-19 during the pandemic in Spain.