Guadalupe Victoria

Guadalupe Victoria (29 September 1786 – 21 March 1843), born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix, is a Mexican politician and military officer who fights for independence against the Spanish Empire in the Mexican War of Independence.

He is a deputy in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for Durango and a member of the Supreme Executive Power.

He also serves as the first president of Mexico.

During his term as President, he establishes diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom, the United States, the Federal Republic of Central America, and Gran Colombia.

He also abolishes slavery, founds the National Museum, promotes education, and ratifies the border with the United States of America.

As far as relations with the former colonial overlords of Mexico are concerned, he decrees a law to expel the Spaniards remaining in the country and defeats the last Spanish stronghold in the castle of San Juan de Ulúa.

Victoria is the only president to complete his full term in more than 30 years of an independent Mexico.

He dies in 1843 at the age of 56 from epilepsy in the fortress of Perote, where he is receiving medical treatment.

On 8 April of the same year, it is decreed that his name will be written in golden letters in the session hall of the Chamber of Deputies.

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