Victoria Kent flanked by President of the Republic, Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Alvaro de Albornoz, in Madrid in 1931, standing: Francisco Largo Caballero . Victoria Kent Siano (1898 - 1987) Spanish lawyer and republican politician came to fame in 1930 for d

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Victoria Kent flanked by President of the Republic, Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Alvaro de Albornoz, in Madrid in 1931, standing: Francisco Largo Caballero . Victoria Kent Siano (1898 - 1987) Spanish lawyer and republican politician came to fame in 1930 for defending - at a court martial - Álvaro 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 Alcalá-Zamora, appointed her Director General of Prisons, a post she held until 1934,

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