Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga

Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga

José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga (born January 7, 1797 in Mexico City , † September 7, 1849 ibid) was a Mexican military and interim president of Mexico .

Paredes was born in Mexico City on January 7, 1797, the son of a Spaniard and a Mexican. On January 6, 1812, at the age of 15, he joined the royalist infantry as a cadet. In the Mexican War of Independence Paredes participated in a series battles against insurgents in part, but was due to criticism of King Ferdinand VII. Captured and should by Spain into exile sent. He managed to escape and he fought in the Army of the Three Guarantees .

Paredes supported the Iguala plan and was promoted to lieutenant colonel under Emperor Iturbide in June 1821. As a commander in Puebla, he spoke out against Itúrbide on February 11, 1823 and joined the plan of Casa Mata .

In April 1847 he married Josefa Cortés, with whom he would have seven children.

Paredes rose on December 21, 1829 and supported Anastasio Bustamante and the Jalapa plan against President Vicente Guerrero . Bustamante became president on January 1, 1830. In the same year Paredes was promoted to colonel and the following year to brigadier general.

In December 1838 he was Minister of War for a short time.

In 1839 he supported Antonio Escobedo , governor of Jalisco , in suppressing a federal uprising.

On August 8, 1841, Paredes led a revolt against President Bustamante, whom he accused of lack of commitment to regaining the Republic of Texas and against the French invasion in the Cake War . Bustamante resigned, Javier Echeverría took over the presidency on an interim basis and handed it over to Antonio López de Santa Anna three weeks later . Paredes was not given a seat in Santa Anna's cabinet and then withdrew his support.

From November 3, 1841 to January 28, 1843 Paredes was governor of Jalisco , then from March 6 to 8 of the year governor of the state of Mexico .

In October 1844, Santa Anna was overthrown and replaced by the Congress by José Joaquín de Herrera .

After the outbreak of the Mexican-American War Paredes moved 6,000 men to San Luis Potosí . From there he marched back to Mexico City in December 1845 and forced President Herrera to resign. On December 30, 1845, the commander of the garrison of Mexico City, Gabriel Valencia , spoke out for Paredes, who entered the city the next day and was appointed interim president of Mexico by a junta of high-ranking government members he had formed .

On June 20, 1846, he was officially elected President by Congress. Eight days later he left the capital to take command of the troops .

His plans to convert Mexico into a monarchy under a European ruler and thus gain foreign support led to uprisings by Generals José María Yáñez Carrillo and José Mariano Salas . Salas deposed Paredes and spoke out in favor of Santa Anna's return from Cuban exile and the convening of a constituent congress.

Paredes managed to escape at first, but was later arrested and exiled to France. He returned in 1848 and spoke out against the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo . He revolted again, this time together with Manuel Doblado , but was defeated on July 18, 1848 by Bustamante near Guanajuato . Sent into exile again, he returned to Mexico in April 1849 after a general amnesty .

Paredes died in Mexico City on September 7, 1849.

literature

• Timothy J. Henderson: A Glorious Defeat. Mexico and its War with the United States. Hill and Wang, New York NY 2007, ISBN 978-0-8090-6120-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timothy J. Henderson: A Glorious Defeat. Mexico and its War with the United States. 2007, pp. 152, 158, 160.
2. ↑ Timothy J. Henderson: A Glorious Defeat. Mexico and its War with the United States. 2007, p. 160.