Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy

Mexican politician and diplomat

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1825

Place of Birth: Puebla, Mexico

Date of Death: 29-May-1904

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician, diplomat, journalist

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy

  • Manuel María Eutimio de Zamacona y Murphy (13 September 1826 – 29 May 1904) was a Mexican radical liberal lawyer, journalist, and politician.
  • Born in Puebla, he studied at seminary and went on to practice law.
  • As a journalist he founded El Siglo XIX, an influential newspaper founded in 1852.
  • He served as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Benito Juárez (1861).
  • He negotiated an agreement with the British Ambassador to Mexico, Charles Wyke, known as the Wyke-Zamacona Treaty, which sought an interim solution of the Juárez government's problems concerning the external debt to Great Britain, France, and Spain.
  • When Juárez decided to suspend payments on the foreign debt in July 1861, he risked foreign intervention.
  • The treaty was aimed at forestalling that, but it was rejected by the Mexican congress.
  • With that rejection, Zamacona resigned from Juárez's government and went on to led the liberal opposition to Juárez.
  • He negotiated diplomatic recognition to the administration of President Porfirio Díaz from the government of the United States (1878) and presided over the Supreme Court of Justice.

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