Manuel Antonio Mercado Explained

Manuel Antonio Mercado
Birth Name:	Manuel Antonio Mercado y de la Paz
Birth Date:	28 January 1838
Birth Place:	La Piedad de Cabadas Michoacán
Nationality:	Mexico
Occupation:	Lawyer

Manuel Antonio Mercado y de la Paz ^{[1] [2] [3]} (28 January 1838, Piedad de Cabadas, Michoacán, México – 9 June 1909, México City), also known as Manuel Mercado ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} was a Mexican politician and lawyer, and served as Secretary of State for the Federal District (Distrito Federal) of Mexico (Mexico City) in the administration of Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada.Lawyer; bar of México 1861

Career

On January 19, 1860, Manuel Antonio Mercado, a law student, delivered a commencement inaugural address at the School of Jurisprudence. The speech was later published.

Life

Manuel Antonio Mercado was a dear friend of José Martí since 1875, year when Martí, who along with his parents, had moved to Mexico from Cuba.^[8] Almost two decades later, on May 18, 1895, just hours before José Martí was gunned down by Spaniard troops while fighting for the Independence of Cuba during the Battle of Dos Ríos, he wrote a letter to Mercado, wherein he expressed, his final thoughts to gain the Independence of Cuba. Martí's letter, albeit unfinished, was published posthumously.^[7]

Bibliography

Book: Mercado , Manuel Antonio . Discurso inaugural pronunciado en la Academia de Jurisprudencia Teórico-Práctica el día 19 de enero de 1860 . Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido . 1860.

References

• Book: Roderic Ai Camp . 1991 . Mexican political biographies, 1884-1935 . registration . University of Texas Press . 978-0-292-75119-4 .
• Book: Mexico. Congreso Constituyente, 1861-1863 . Felipe Buenrostro . 1881 . Historia del primero y segundo congresos constitucionales de la Republica Mexicana ...: Extracto de todas las sesiones y documentos relativos . Tip. de Mata, 1881 .
• Book: Luis G. Labastida, Mexico. Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, México . Colección de leyes, decretos, reglamentos circulares, ordenes, acuerdos y estudios relativos a la desamortización y nacionalización de los bienes de corporaciones. . 1893 .
• Book: . Manuel Antonio Mercado . 1946. Sammlung .

External links

• Manuel Antonio Mercado y de la Paz

Notes and References

1. Ai Camp, Mexican political biographies p. 144, 145.
2. Mexico. Congreso Constituyente, 1861-1863 (1881). Historia del primero y segundo congresos constitucionales de la Republica Mexicana ...: Extracto de todas las sesiones y documentos relativos. Tip. de Mata, 1881 p. 27
3. Book: Roderic Ai Camp . 1991 . Mexican political biographies, 1884-1935 . registration . University of Texas Press . 978-0-292-75119-4 .
4. Estañol, Mercado, Pizarro, Calero. (1892). Leyes no codificadas de mas frecuente aplicación en el foro: Colección formada p. 1, 119.
5. Estañol, Mercado, Pizarro, Calero. (1892). Leyes no codificadas de mas frecuente aplicación en el foro: Colección formada.
6. Other materials published henceforth have used interchangeably both names.
7. Book: Martí , José . José Martí . José Martí: Selected Writings . . 2002 . 0-14-243704-2.
8. [José Martí#México and Guatemala 1875–1878|José Martí: México and Guatemala 1875–1878]