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Miguel Barragán (
Valle de Maíz,
San Luis Potosí,
March 8,
1789 –
March 1,
1836 in
Mexico City) was a Mexican general and a centralist (not federalist) politician. He served as Minister of War in the government of
Antonio López de Santa Anna in 1833 and 1834, then as president of Mexico from
January 28,
1835 to
February 27,
1836.
The War of Independence and the First Empire
Barragán fought with the
Ejército Trigarante in the war for Mexican independence, rising to the rank of brigadier general. After independence, he joined a conspiracy against Emperor
Agustín de Iturbide with other ex-insurgents. They met in the house of
Miguel Domínguez, ex-corregidor of Querétaro. The conspirators wrote to
Pedro Celestino Negrete in
Guadalajara, expecting support. Instead, he denounced the conspiracy to Iturbide. Seventeen people were arrested, including
Guadalupe Victoria, Brigadier
Nicolás Bravo and Barragán. Barragán wasn't freed until after the fall of the empire.
On
June 20,
1824 he was named commanding general of
Veracruz, which was under bombardment from the Spanish in the fort of
San Juan de Ulúa, the only position the Spanish still held in Mexico. Barragán blockaded the fort with two small ships. The Spanish garrison was suffering from hunger and illness. The commander, Coppinger, surrendered on
November 6,
1825, under a pact of 14 articles. The pact was ratified on November 18, and Barragán occupied Ulúa on that day. All of Mexico was now free of Spanish control. In recognition of the results, in 1828 Congress named Barragán political chief of the state of Veracruz.
Republic of Mexico
He was compromised in the 1827
Plan de Montaño, an armed uprising against President Guadalupe Victoria that aimed to prohibit secret meetings of the
Yorkists and force the expulsion of
Joel Roberts Poinsett, the diplomatic representative of the
United States. Colonel
José Rincón, under Barragán's command in Veracruz, denounced the conspirators. Barragán was arrested at the hacienda of Santa Anna and confined in the dungeons formerly used by the
Inquisition. Generals Guadalupe Victoria and
Vicente Guerrero intervened in his behalf, and he was sentenced only to temporary exile. He lived in
Ecuador,
Guatemala and the United States.
Called back to Mexico by Santa Anna, he was Minister of War from
November 20,
1833 to
February 13,
1834 in the governments of Santa Anna and
Valentín Gómez Farías. (He was a political supporter of Santa Anna.) During this period Barragán and Quintanar were sent to suppress rebels in the state of
Jalisco.
President of Mexico
On
January 28,
1835 he replaced Santa Anna in the presidency, on an interim basis. He took measures to help widows and poor people, partly out of his own pocket. He also suppressed an anti-Santa Anna revolt in the current state of
Guerrero. He served until
February 27,
1836. On that day he resigned because of a grave illness. He died in the National Palace on
March 1,
1836, a victim of a "putrid fever" (probably
typhus). He was interred in the Cathedral of Mexico City and his name was inscribed in letters of gold in the chamber where Congress met.
José Justo Corro succeeded him in office.
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