Mexico: Heads of State: 1863-1867

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Mexico: Heads of State: 1863-1867
Supremo Poder Ejecutivo Provisional de la Nación
25 Jun 1863 - 11 Jul 1863	Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
25 Jun 1863 - 11 Jul 1863	José Mariano de Salas Barbosa
25 Jun 1863 - 11 Jul 1863	Juan Bautista de Ormaechea, Obispo de Tulancingo [1]
	full name: Juan Bautista Pascual José de Ormaechea y Ernaiz
Regencia del Imperio [2]
11 Jul 1863 - 19 May 1864	Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
11 Jul 1863 - 18 Oct 1863	Juan Bautista de Ormaechea, Obispo de Tulancingo
11 Jul 1863 - 19 May 1864	José Mariano de Salas Barbosa
18 Oct 1863 - 17 Nov 1863	Pelagio Antonio Labastida, Arzobispo de México
	full name: José Antonio Pelagio de la Santísima Trinidad de Labastida y Dávalos
Lugarteniente del Imperio
19 May 1864 - 29 May 1864	Juan Nepomuceno Almonte
Emperador de México
29 May 1864 - 15 May 1867	Maximiliano
	name (baptized, 7 Jul 1832): Ferdinand Maximilian Josef
	accession: 11 Jul 1863 (offered the crown by the Assembly of Notables); 10 Apr 1864 (accepted the crown at Schloss Miramar, now in Italy); 29 May 1864 (landed at Veracruz, Mexico); end of reign: 15 May 1867 (captured by belligerent forces)
Lugarteniente del Imperio [3]
15 May 1867 - 21 Jun 1867	Leonardo Márquez
	full name: Leonardo Teófilo Guadalupe Ignacio del Corazón de Jesús Márquez Araujo


[1]	Pending the taking office by Labastida who was absent from Mexico City and never took office as a member of Supremo Poder Ejecutivo Provisional de la Nación.
[2]	Constituted in accordance with a decree of 11 Jul 1863 issued by the Asamblea de Notables, instructing the members of Supremo Poder Ejecutivo Provisional de la Nación to continue in office as Regencia del Imperio Mexicano; from 10 Apr 1864 pending the taking office by the Emperor.
[3]	Márquez was appointed the Lieutenant General of the Empire by an imperial decree of 19 Mar 1867 issued at Querétaro. After the capture of the emperor (15 May 1867), Márquez remained the highest officer of state in Mexico City, the capital of the Empire besieged by the armed forces of the government of Benito Juárez. The capital surrendered on 21 Jun 1867.

Last update: 08 Jul 2024