How to Pronounce Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
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Apr 24, 1823 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico Died on 21 Apr 1889 (aged 65)
President of Mexico
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About Sebastián Lerdo De Tejada
- Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Corral (Spanish pronunciation: [seßas'tjan 'le?ðo ðe te'xaða]; 24 April 1823 – 21 April 1889) was a jurist and Liberal president of Mexico, succeeding Benito Juárez who died of a heart attack in July 1872.
- Lerdo was elected to his own presidential term later in 1872 rather than remaining successor due to his previous office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Juárez's political rival liberal General Porfirio Díaz had attempted a coup against Juárez, but his Plan de la Noria failed and Díaz was eliminated as a political foe during Lerdo's 1872-76 term, giving Lerdo considerable leeway to pursue his program without political interference.
- Lerdo was more successful than Juárez in his final years as president in pacifying the country and strengthening the Mexican state.
- He ran for another term in 1876 and was elected, but was overthrown by Porfirio Díaz and his supporters under the Plan of Tuxtepec, which asserted the principle of no-reelection to the presidency.
- Lerdo died in exile in New York in 1889, but Díaz invited the return of his body to Mexico for burial with full honors.
- Not counting Miguel Miramón, an unrecognized president during the Reform War, he is the first president of the recognized presidents that was not born during Spanish colonial rule.
