José Joaquín Pesado Pérez (Palmar de Bravo,

Puebla Puebla ( en, colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 217 municipalities and its cap ...

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, 9 February 1801 —

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, 3 March 1861) was a Mexican writer, journalist, poet and politician. He was born in San Agustín del Palmar,

, in 1801 and died in

in 1861. In 1822, he married María de la Luz de la Llave y Segura, and Juana Segura Argüelles twenty years later. Pesado was

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(es:Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Gobernación y Policía),

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(es: Ministerio del Interior),

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(es:Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores), and

Governor of Veracruz The governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign Sta ...

(es: Gobernador de Veracruz). He joined the nineteenth-century

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the Academia de Letrán. He was also a member of the

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and professor of philosophy. He published in ''El Radical'' and ''El Año Nuevo''. He was editor of ''El Mosaico Mexicano'', ''El Recreo de las familias'', ''El Nuevo Año and La Cruz''.

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José Joaquín Pesado
Academia Mexicana de la Lengua

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México
Estudio sobre José Joaquín Pesado

Obras de Pesado, José Joaquín, 1801-1861
1801 births 1861 deaths Mexican writers Writers from Puebla Governors of Veracruz Members of the Mexican Academy of Language Mexican Secretaries of the Interior Mexican Secretaries of Foreign Affairs {{Mexico-writer-stub