Francisco Martínez de la Rosa

Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Cornejo (10 March 1787 – 7 February 1862) was a Spanish statesman and dramatist and the first prime minister of Spain to receive the title of President of the Council of Ministers. He became Prime Minister in the opening months of the First Carlist War and his liberal government oversaw the promulgation of a new Spanish constitution: the Spanish Royal Statute of 1834.