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Juan José Pérez Nájera (1845–1939) was a Spanish politician and soldier. He has not risen to major honors either in politics or in the army, nonetheless in mostly theoretical legitimist troops he was nominated to the rank of a general. He remains a rather unique case of an individual who for 70 years was actively serving his political cause; from the late 1860s till the mid-1930s he supported Carlism. Though in the 1890s he aspired to the parliament, his political climax fell on the early 1930s; at the time he animated a somewhat dissident current within Traditionalism, later to develop into so-called carloctavismo. He demonstrated exceptional vitality: at the age of 68 he conceived a child, at the age of 72 he engaged in a street fight, and at the age of 89 he co-led a political faction.