About Miguel Barragán
Miguel Francisco Barragán Andrade (8 March 1789 – 1 March 1836) He was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim president of Mexico from 1835 to 1836. He had previously served as Governor of Veracruz, and gained national fame for the capture of the Fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in 1824, through which Spanish military presence was finally expelled from Mexico. He initially was a supporter of the federalist Constitution of 1824, but became a partisan of the conservative Escoses Party, who strongly critiqued the Constitution, and would eventually transform the First Mexican Republic into the Centralist Republic of Mexico, a transition in which Barragán played a military role. During the Centralist Republic, he was nominated by Antonio López de Santa Anna to hold presidential office while Santa Anna went off to fight insurrections against the new constitution, including the Texas Revolution, but Barragán's poor health led him to die in office. He was succeeded by his Minister of Justice, José Justo Corro. Barragán was awarded by the legislature of Veracruz with a ceremonial sword, and his troops. His opposition to the First Mexican Empire landed him in prison, but he was released when the Empire fell in 1823. He ordered the municipal administration to record all taxes that came from public lands and from bonds be recorded in one file for the sake of accountability.
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