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Excelentísimo Señor Don Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena OIC
Caricatured by Tovar (La Novela Teatral, 1919)
Born	Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres (1897-10-23)23 October 1897 Madrid, Spain
Died	11 January 1975(1975-01-11) (aged 77) Madrid, Spain
Seat E of the Real Academia Española
In office 20 January 1946 – 11 January 1975
Preceded by	Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
Succeeded by	Gonzalo Torrente Ballester
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Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena y García de Torres, 2nd Marquis of Luca de Tena (Madrid, 23 October 1897 – 11 January 1975) was a Spanish politician, diplomat, journalist and playwright.

Luca de Tena was Member of the Cortes (1958–64) and Ambassador of Spain to Chile (1940–44) and to Greece (1961–62).

Luca de Tena was elected to seat E of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 20 January 1946.^[1]

His son was the journalist Guillermo Luca de Tena. His daughter, María Victoria Luca de Tena, was married to Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta, a businessman and journalist.^[2]

• Cross of Military Merit
• Campaign medal for the Civil War
• Order of Merit of the German Eagle
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Chile)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Juan Pablo Duarte (Dominican Republic)
• Order of the Medahuia (Morocco)

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