Victoria Kent (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Victoria Kent (March 3, 1898 - September 22, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Born in Malaga, she was affiliated to the Radical Socialist Republican Party and came to fame in 1930 for defending - at a court martial - Alvaro de Albornoz, who would shortly afterwards go on to become minister of justice and later the future president of the Republican government in exile (1947 to 1949 and 1949 to 1951). She became a member of the first Parliament of the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. That same year, the President of the Republic, Niceto Alcala-Zamora, appointed her Director General of Prisons, a post she held until 1934, and she actively continued the reforms in the prison service that had been started by Concepcion Arenal.