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Lucas Ignacio José Joaquín Pedro de Alcántara Juan Bautista Francisco de Paula Alamán y Escalada b. 1792, Guanajuato |
| Title: | Depositario del Supremo Poder Ejecutivo (Guardian of the Supreme Executive Power) |
| Term: | 23 Dec 1829 - 1 Jan 1830 |
| Chronology: | 23 Dec 1829, elected by the Council of Government |
| 23 Dec 1829, took the oath of office at the meeting of the Council of Government, Mexico City | |
| 1 Jan 1830, vice president Anastasio Bustamante assumed the presidency |
| Biography: | |
Politician and historian and the leader of Mexican conservatives, Alamán served in 1819 as the Mexican deputy in the Cortes (Spanish Parliament). Returning to Mexico in 1822, Alamán served first as foreign minister under Guadalupe Victoria (1824 - 1829), then as the influential chief minister of Anastasio Bustamante (1829 - 1832). In between, he served as Guardian of the Supreme Executive Power in the provisional government set up in Mexico City in Dec. 1829. Alamán's career was marked by his frequent controversies with the United States and his ambitious, but unfulfilled, economic and political plans. His economic schemes, which attempted to force Mexico into rapid industrialization, were perhaps utopian for the primitive Mexican economy and remained only as plans on paper. Alamán, as a historian, was the founder of the National Museum and the General Archive in Mexico City and is remembered for his historical works "Disertaciones sobre la historia de la república mejicana", 3 vol. (1844-49; "Dissertations on the History of the Mexican Republic"), and "Historia de México", 5 vol. (1848-52). |
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