Josep Tarradellas i Joan

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name = Josep Tarradellas i Joan

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birth_date = birth date|1899|02|19|df=y
birth_place = Cervelló, Baix Llobregat
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death_date = death date and age|1988|06|10|1899|02|19|df=y
death_place = Barcelona
office = 125^th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya
salary =
term_start = August 7, 1954
term_end = April 24, 1980
(In exile from August 7, 1954 to October 17, 1977)
predecessor = Josep Irla i Bosch
successor = Jordi Pujol i Soley
office2 = Minister of Governance of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Minister of Governance and Health
(December 14, 1932 - January 24, 1933)
salary2 =
term_start2 = December 29, 1931
term_end2 = January 24, 1933
predecessor2 = Joan Casanovas i Maristany (Governance)
Antoni Xirau i Palau (Health and Social Assistance)
successor2 = Joan Selves i Carner (Governance)
Josep Dencàs i Puigdollers (Health and Social Assistance)
office3 = First Minister of the Generalitat de Catalunya
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
(September 26, 1936 - April 3, 1937) and
(April 16, 1937 - May 5, 1937)
Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Culture
(April 3, 1937 - April 16, 1937)
salary3 =
term_start3 = September 26, 1936
term_end3 = May 5, 1937
predecessor3 = Joan Casanovas i Maristany (First Minister)
Martí Esteve i Guau (Finance)
Antoni Maria Sbert i Massanet (Culture)
successor3 = Antoni Maria Sbert i Massanet (Culture)
Carles Martí i Feced (Governance and Finance)
office4 = Minister of Economy and Public Services of the Generalitat de Catalunya
salary4 =
term_start4 = August 6, 1936
term_end4 = September 26, 1936
predecessor4 = Joan Comorera i Soler (Economy)
Himself (Public Services)
successor4 = Joan Porqueras i Fàbregas (Economy)
Joan Comorera i Soler (Public Services)
party = ERC
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Josep Tarradellas i Joan (Cervelló, Baix Llobregat 1899 - Barcelona 1988), Marquess of Tarradellas in 1985, was a Catalan politician.

In 1931 he became general secretary of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya. He also was deputy at the Cortes this year, Government and Sanity councillor when Francesc Macià was President of the Generalitat de Catalunya as well as Public Services, Economy and Culture councillor during the Spanish Civil War.

Exiled to France since 1939, he became President of the Generalitat de Catalunya when Josep Irla resigned, in 1954.

Two years after Francisco Franco's death (1975), the President of the Spanish Government Adolfo Suárez met him to negotiate the reestablishment of the Generalitat de Catalunya, an event which occurred on October of 1977. The sentence pronounced at his arrival has become really famous in a symbolic way: "Ciutadans de Catalunya, ja sóc aquí!" (Catalan for "Citizens of Catalonia, I'm already here!").

He was welcomed solemnly in Barcelona and set up a unity government. He finished his work with the elections for the Catalan Parliament (March of 1980), and Jordi Pujol was elected in April.