Ramón Isaac Alcaraz (3 June 1823 – 8 April 1886) was a Mexican poet, writer and liberal politician. Alcaraz was born in Chucándiro,

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, in 1823. He earned a law degree in

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, Michoacán, and, by 1836, was continuing his studies in

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, where he joined the , a leading literary society of the time. He published his first poem, on the death of Ignacio Rodríguez Galván, in 1842, and later poems appeared in the journals ''El Museo Mexicano'' and ''El Liceo Mexicano'' and in the collection ''Guirnalda Poética'' (1853). A two-volume collection of his verse, ''Poesías'', was published in 1860. After fighting in the

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of 1846–1848, he was one of the contributors to ''Apuntes para la historia de la guerra entre México y los Estados Unidos'' (1848), a work that President

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deemed "offensive to the republic", ordering its first edition seized and burned. In 1850, Albert C. Ramsey translated the ''Apuntes'' into English as ''The Other Side, or: Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, Written in Mexico''). Alcaraz was elected to the 1856–57 Constituent Congress, where he served on the industry committee. He followed President

Benito Juárez Benito Pablo Juárez García (; 21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872) was a Mexican politician, military commander, and lawyer who served as the 26th president of Mexico from 1858 until his death in office in 1872. A Zapotec peoples, Zapotec, he w ...

into exile during the

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(1858–1860) and French Intervention (1861–1867). Following the restoration of the republic, he served as the director of the National Museum from 1867 to 1876 and was appointed director of the

Academia de San Carlos An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in 1869. He was elected to the Mexican Academy of Language in 1880. Ramón Alcaraz died in Mexico City in 1886.

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