generally agreed that Casares refused to deliver arms to the revolutionary workers’ organizations as the right-wing uprising unfolded. The memoirs of his daughter María Casares denied this. He did not hold any other office during the Civil War, and left for France along with Azaña and Martínez Barrio after the fall of Catalonia. He died in exile in 1950. He was the father of actress María Casares. He was an atheist. References Sources Xenealoxía.org External links CASARES QUIROGA Y CASTELAO 1884 births 1950 deaths People from A Coruña Autonomous Galician Republican Organization politicians Republican Left (Spain) politicians Prime Ministers of Spain Spanish atheists Justice ministers of Spain Members of the Congress of Deputies of the Second Spanish Republic Politicians from Galicia (Spain) Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (Republican faction) Interior ministers of Spain 19th-century atheists 20th-century atheists Government ministers during the Second Spanish Republic