Valentín Gómez Farías
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José María Valentín Gómez Farías was a Mexican medical doctor and liberal politician who became president of Mexico twice, first from 1833 to 1834, during the period of the First Mexican Republic, and
Valentín Gómez Farías, portrait
Guadalajara, Gómez Farías's hometown
Santa Anna was elected with Gómez Farías as a liberal, but later betrayed him and supported a Conservative revolt.
Photograph of an elderly Gómez Farías
Manuel Gómez Pedraza
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Manuel Gómez Pedraza y Rodríguez was a Mexican general who also became president of Mexico during the First Mexican Republic.
Valentín Gómez Farías
…rage for most of the year and end with the overthrow of the president. After the fall of Anastasio Bustamante, Gómez Farías supported the candidacy of Manuel Gómez Pedraza. Gómez Pedraza was invited to hold the presidential seat until the next scheduled elections which were on March, and he chose Gómez Farías as Minister…
Portrait of Pedraza, 1828
As a known moderate, Pedraza would be invited to serve in the cabinet of the Conservative president Anastasio Bustamante (pictured) in 1838.