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Juan Alvarez de Mendizábal, (1790-1853), Spanish politician and financier, Detail. He had great importance in the Spanish liberal Revolution. He was appointed Minister of Finance in July 1835 by the Count of Toreno, from which he promoted the confiscation of the confiscation of Catholic Church's properties. From "Historia de la guerra civil y de los partidos liberal y carlista" (History of the Civil War and the Liberal and Carlist parties) by Antonio Pirala, Vol II, Madrid, 1868.