Manuel Gómez Pedraza y Rodríguez was a Mexican general who also became president of Mexico during the First Mexican Republic.
Portrait of Pedraza, 1828
Towards the end of his term, Pedraza endorsed the Liberal candidate Valentín Gómez Farías (pictured) who would go on to win the election of 1833.
As a known moderate, Pedraza would be invited to serve in the cabinet of the Conservative president Anastasio Bustamante (pictured) in 1838.
José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as the 19th president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853.
Manuel Gómez Pedraza
…relations. After the treaty of peace was established he returned to the capital and was a candidate for the presidential elections of 1850 but lost to Mariano Arista. The government of President José Joaquín de Herrera commissioned him to conclude a treaty with Robert P. Letcher regarding communications across the…
Portrait by Édouard Pingret, 1851
Photograph of Mariano Arista before his death in 1855