Justo Somonte Iturrioz

Justo Diego Somonte Iturrioz (15 August 1891 - 14 February 1954) was a Spanish pharmacist and politician who served as the mayor of Bilbao from 1923 to 1924.

Biography Somonte Iturrioz came from a family of pharmacists. Farmacia Pariza, a local pharmacy, was founded by his grandfather Justo Somonte Martínez, who was awarded by the Bilbao City Council with the title Ilustres bilbaínos y bilbaínas in 2007.

Somonte Iturrioz presided over the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in Bilbao and was mayor of the city for five months, starting from 1 October 1923, succeeding Mariano Arostegui Ugarriza, until February 26, 1924, when he was dismissed by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and replaced by Federico Moyúa Salazar. In Mexico, he worked in laboratories and founded an asphalt factory.