Lucas Alamán
| Lucas Alamán | |
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| Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations of Mexico | |
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In office 1823–1825 – 1830–32 to 1851–53 |
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October 18, 1792 Guanajuato |
| Died | June 2, 1853 (aged 60) Mexico City |
| Political party | Mexican Conservative Party |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, historian, politician, scientist, writer |
| Religion | Catholic |
Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada (Guanajuato, New Spain, October 18, 1792 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 2, 1853) was a Mexican scientist, conservative politician, historian, and writer. He has been called the "arch-reactionary of the epoch...who sought to create a strong central government based on a close alliance of the army, the Church and the landed classes." Alamán was "undoubtedly the major political and intellectual figure of independent Mexico until his death in 1853...the guiding force of several administrations and an active promoter of economic development."
Alamán's father immigrated from Navarre and accumulated a fortune in mining. His mother held the title of the fifth marchioness of San Clemente. Alamán's father was his mother's second husband after her first husband, Brigadier Gabriel de Arechederreta, died. Alamán had an older half-brother, Juan Bautista Arechederreta. A formative event in Alamán's life, which he wrote about in his autobiography, was his witnessing the sack of Guanajuato during the revolt by Miguel Hidalgo in 1810 where an Indian and mixed race mob captured the city granary (alhondiga) and killed those taking refuge inside. This experience may have influenced his lifelong devotion to conservative politics and his nostalgia for monarchic rule for Mexico. He studied at the Real Colegio de Minas de la Nueva España, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). He frequently traveled on his credentials as a scientist and diplomat, becoming one of the most educated men in Mexico.
In 1821 Alamán was a deputy to the Cádiz Cortes in Cádiz (Spain), the Spanish national parliament, for the Province of Nueva Galicia (included present day Jalisco, Nayarit, Sonora, Sinaloa) in Viceroyalty of New Spain.
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