Fernando de Santiago

The Most Excellent Fernando de Santiago
Prime Minister of Spain (interim)
In office 1 July 1976 – 3 July 1976
Monarch	Juan Carlos I
Deputy	Juan-Miguel Villar Mir
Preceded by	Carlos Arias Navarro
Succeeded by	Adolfo Suárez
Governor-General of the Spanish Sahara
In office 4 March 1971 – 24 April 1974
Preceded by	José María Pérez de Lerma
Succeeded by	Federico Gómez de Salazar
Personal details
Born	Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil (1910-07-23)23 July 1910 Madrid, Spain
Died	6 November 1994(1994-11-06) (aged 84) Madrid, Spain
Political party	Falange (1936–1980) Movimiento Nacional
Spouse	María Ignacia Morales de Los Ríos y Palacio
Children	5
Military service
Branch/service	Army
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands	Superior Polytechnic Army College

Fernando de Santiago y Díaz de Mendívil (23 July 1910 – 6 November 1994) was a conservative politician who served as deputy prime minister of Spain and briefly as acting prime minister during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s. He had earlier been a general in the Spanish Civil War and under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.