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Salvador Sánchez-Terán

Spanish engineer and politician (1934–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3470338 ↗
Source-derived summary

Salvador Sánchez-Terán Hernández (19 April 1934 – 31 December 2022) was a Spanish politician from the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) who served as Minister of Labour from May to September 1980 and previously as Minister of Transport and Communications from February 1978 to May 1980.

Sánchez-Terán died on 31 December 2022, at the age of 88.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Salvador Sánchez-Terán” as spanish engineer and politician (1934–2022). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Salvador, Sánchez-Terán and Spanish.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 2022, 1980, 1978—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1934-04-19, 1934-04-14—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Salvador, Sánchez-Terán and Spanish providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Salvador Sánchez-Terán”, the useful work is to connect “spanish engineer and politician (1934–2022)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3470338. VIAF identifies the subject as 7431925. The Library of Congress control number is no90020230. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934, 2022, 1980 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Salvador Sánchez-Terán” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.