Teodomiro Menéndez

Teodomiro Menéndez Fernández (Oviedo, 1879 – Madrid, 1978) was a Spanish politician and socialist syndicalist.

He began to work at a very early age in the Weapons Factory of La Vega (Oviedo) obtaining his training attending to the classrooms of the University Extension ovetense.

He started his career in politics by running for election to Oviedo City Hall in 1911.

In 1931,[1] during the government of the second republic, Teodomiro was elected deputy for the Cortes Generales for Oviedo and held the office of Public Works between 1932 and 1933, projecting the future rail links of Madrid.

He was jailed in the prison of El Dueso, Cantabria, until the victory of the Popular Front in the elections of February 1936 date in which it is released.