Juan Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios

Juan Lamamié de Clairac y Trespalacios (24 June 1831 – 19 October 1919) was a Spanish journalist and traditionalist politician.

Biography Family and youth He descended from a noble family of French origin residing in Spain since the beginning of the 18th century. His father José Lamamié de Clairac y Tirado had been a colonel at the Royal Army and fought on the Northern campaign of the Napoleonic Wars under Pedro Caro y Sureda. His mother Jacinta Trespalacios y Ceballos was the first Salamancan victim of the 1834 Spanish cholera epidemic and died when Juan was 3 years old.

His father moved to Madrid and left him at Salamanca under his family guardianship, considering his infirm health and few expectations of survival were unfit for travelling. He lived with his aunt María Trespalacios and his uncle Manuel Mercado Dusmet, who had been a guerrilla fighter at the Spanish Independence War under Julián Sánchez. According to El Siglo Futuro, his aunt and uncle had followed the Carlist ideology since Clairac was a boy and transmitted their religious and political zeal to him. He was fully entrusted to them after the early death of his father, when Clairac was 16 years old. with whom he had 8 children.

Integrist Party actions

He sided with Ramón Nocedal and El Siglo Futuro in the conflict with La Fé that led to the Integrist separation of the Carlist movement. He would later found La Región (1890–1892) and La Información (1892–1897).

In 1901 he joined the Catholic Anti-Liberal League of Salamanca and campaigned intensely for Juan Antonio Sánchez del Campo, who would be elected a deputy by the Integrists in June of the same year. He started a general reorganization of the movement and set 75 provincial juntas with whom he attended the party assembly of 1906 dressed in traditional attires.

With the support of Juan Antonio Sánchez del Campo and Ramón Nocedal he took part in the 1907 Spanish general election and was elected a deputy despite the opposition of the local bishop Francisco Javier Valdés y Noriega, who supported the lesser of two evils principle and rejected Integralism. Two other Integrist candidates, Manuel Senante and José Sánchez Marco, were elected as well.

He was made a member of the party directory by the Assembly of Zaragoza after Nocedal's death. In 1908 he travelled to Rome in representation of the party and offered Pope Pius X to dissolve the organization and El Siglo Futuro if he considered it to be prejudicial for the situation of the Catholic Church in Spain.

He renounced to his deputy re-election to avoid antagonising with the local bishop, despite the party was approved by the Holy See. He still did not abandon politics and supported Integrist Mariano Arenillas Sáinz for his successful deputy candidacy, ending with the republican-socialist majority in the municipality.

In spite of his old age, the Integrist Assembly of 1918 re-elected him as the party head of León. He supported the candidacy of his son José María, who was not elected that time but would later become a deputy thrice during the Second Spanish Republic. Clairac died at Salamanca the following year.