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Modesto Cortázar y Leal de Ibarra (15 June 1783, in Briviesca (Burgos) – 25 January 1862, in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and Prime Minister.

Cortázar was a member of the Progressive Party in Spain.

When the government of Valentín Ferraz y Barrau fell on 28 August 1840, he was appointed by Regent María Cristina de Borbón to form a government in which he became acting Prime Minister and also held the post of Minister of Justice. After 2 weeks, he was replaced by Vicente Sancho y Cobertores.

During the Década Moderada, he became in January 1847 President of the Congress of Deputies and in September 1847 Foreign minister in the cabinet of Florencio García Goyena.

References

1. M.C. de Onís (1853). Observaciones político-económicas sobre la Junta o Consejo de sres. Ministros con algunas máximas política ...: organización de las Secretarías del Despacho, de otras dependencias del Estado. Imprenta de la viuda de Antonio Yenes. pp. 131–.

• 1783 births
• 1862 deaths
• Prime ministers of Spain
• Foreign ministers of Spain
• Progressive Party (Spain) politicians
• Presidents of the Congress of Deputies (Spain)