Eduardo Dato Iradier (August 12, 1856-March 8, 1921). Spanish Prime Minister from 1913-1915, 1917, and from 1920-1921. Born in A Coruña, Spain, his family moved to Madrid in his youth. He obtained a degree in law in 1875 and opened his law office two years later. He was elected to the Spanish parliament in 1883 and became undersecretary for the Ministry of the Interior in 1892.

He would hold the position of Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice over the next fifteen years. In 1907, he ran for and won the position of Mayor of Madrid. In 1910, he entered the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. Later that year, he became Prime Minister of Spain for the first time as a conservative government. He left that position in 1915, but would return for a short while in 1917. He moved to the position of Minister of State until 1920, when he formed the government as Prime Minister again. He was assassinated as he left the parliament building in Madrid.

He was a member of the Permanent Court in The Hague (he became vice-president in 1913), member of the International Law Institute , administrator of the bank firm 'Banco Hipotecario' and president of the National Institute of Social Security, the Council of Public Instruction and the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation. The King bestowed the County of Dato on him. He also got the following decorations: the chain of the Order of Carlos III and the Cross of St Gregorio Magno y Casto de Portugal.