51 Facts About Ignacio Comonfort

Ignacio Comonfort played a leading role in the liberal movement under the Plan of Ayutla to overthrow the dictatorship of Santa Anna in 1855; he then served in the cabinet of the new president, Juan Alvarez.

Ignacio Comonfort considered the anticlerical articles of the constitution too radical, likely to provoke a violent reaction.

Ignacio Comonfort objected to the deliberate weakening of the power of the executive branch of government by empowering the legislative branch.

Ignacio Comonfort had been dealing with revolts since the beginning of his administration and the new constitution left the president powerless to act.

Congress was dissolved and Ignacio Comonfort remained as president, only to be completely abandoned by his liberal allies.

Ignacio Comonfort backed out of the plan and resigned from the presidency.

Ignacio Comonfort was succeeded by the president of the Supreme Court, Benito Juarez.

Ignacio Comonfort went into exile as the bloody Reform War broke out, a civil war the conservatives lost in 1861.

Ignacio Comonfort returned to the country in 1862 to fight against the invasion by France that Mexican conservatives supported.

Ignacio Comonfort was killed in action in defense of the Republic on 13 November 1863.

Ignacio Comonfort was born in Puebla on 12 March 1812.

Ignacio Comonfort's parents were lieutenant colonel Mariano Comonfort and Maria Guadalupe de los Rios.

Ignacio Comonfort was twenty years old in 1832 when he took part in the liberal revolt which overthrew President Anastasio Bustamante and saw action at San Agustin del Palmar and Puebla.

Ignacio Comonfort was named military commander of Izucar de Matamoros.

When General Mariano Arista as part of a conservative revolt against the administration of Valentin Gomez Farias besieged Puebla with a vastly superior force, Ignacio Comonfort defended one of its most exposed points.

Arista was repulsed and Ignacio Comonfort returned to his job as a military commander.

The victorious conservatives would turn the First Mexican Republic into the Centralist Republic of Mexico Ignacio Comonfort left the city and returned to his family, where he remained for four years until he was named prefect and military commander of Tlapa in which he made many material improvements.

Ignacio Comonfort had to deal with many southern indigenous revolts within his jurisdiction, including one case in which Comonfort, with twenty-four troops almost without ammunition, sustained a siege against two thousand indigenous troops.

Ignacio Comonfort was a deputy in Congress in 1842 and 1846.

Ignacio Comonfort was elected to the presidency of the third ayuntamiento in the capital and was made prefect of western State of Mexico.

Ignacio Comonfort was elected senator the following year in 1848, and later made a customs official in the port of Acapulco, although he was removed from this position during the last dictatorship of Santa Anna in 1854.

Ignacio Comonfort entered Guadalajara on 22 August 1855 and published a circular arguing that only Juan Alvarez could be recognized as the leader of the revolution.

Alvarez would step down before this date, and it was Ignacio Comonfort who was destined to be president during that fateful session.

Ocampo and Juarez were in favor while Ignacio Comonfort was against, wishing instead to reform the military class, but not destroy it.

Ignacio Comonfort was now threatening to resign and only keep the office of general in chief.

Ignacio Comonfort directed his council to prepare a draft of the statute.

Ignacio Comonfort wavered on the matter and the following day accepted the resignation of his entire ministry and summoned Luis de la Rosa to organize another.

Ignacio Comonfort's proclamation accused Alvarez of attacking religion, the one thing that bound Mexicans together.

Ignacio Comonfort appointed his cabinet two days after he assumed the presidency.

Under the suspicion of sedition, Ignacio Comonfort decreed the expulsion from the country of Antonio de Haro y Tamariz, Francisco Pacheco, and Agustin Zires.

Ignacio Comonfort refused to negotiate with Haro and the latter thus handed his command over to Castillo and Guitian, and they to Oronoz, who finally negotiated the surrender.

Nothing of substance was passed until the 21st when Alvarez's decree transferring executive power to Ignacio Comonfort was ratified by a majority of 72 votes to 7, thus granting Ignacio Comonfort a substantial mandate.

Ignacio Comonfort wished to temper the efforts of the deputies who in response to Santa Anna's recent dictatorship, intended to set up a government that Ignacio Comonfort viewed as too weak.

Ignacio Comonfort struggled against both the radical wing of his party and against clerical conservatives, both of which accused the president of conceding too much to the other.

The constitutional congress wrapped up its work on 5 February 1857, and the fundamental code was signed and its support swore to by each congressman after which President Ignacio Comonfort swore an oath to observe the constitution.

Ignacio Comonfort accepted the resignation of Puebla governor Traconis and replaced him with the more moderate Jose Maria Garcia Conde.

The clerical uprisings did not make up the only insurgency that Ignacio Comonfort had to deal with, as Governor Santiago Vidaurri of Nuevo Leon had revolted on the northern frontier, seizing Saltillo and Matehuala.

Ignacio Comonfort vacillated back and forth between the moderate party and the radical party wondering if it was prudent or not in carrying out all of the constitution's unprecedented reforms.

The opposition press now began to advocate that Ignacio Comonfort continue ruling with extraordinary powers rather than allow the constitution to come into force, though the majority of the liberals did not take seriously the notion that Ignacio Comonfort would join such a scheme.

Congress meanwhile counted the votes for the presidential elections which had been held earlier in the year, with Ignacio Comonfort receiving a majority.

The supreme control of the government was to be entrusted to Ignacio Comonfort who was to convoke within three months another constitutional congress for framing another constitution more in line with the national will, to be submitted to a national plebiscite and in the event of its non-acceptance to be returned to the congress for an amendment.

Ignacio Comonfort released a manifesto explaining his motives, expounding that he viewed the Plan of Tacubaya as an opportunity for a moderate compromise and viewing the alternative as anarchy.

Ignacio Comonfort now sought to move away from the government he had helped bring to power.

Ignacio Comonfort made known to troops in the interior his repentance of having supported the Plan of Tacubaya and to surrender the executive over to the president of the Supreme Court.

Ignacio Comonfort thought at one point of even joining the troops to fight against the reactionists.

Ignacio Comonfort's ruling council now advised him to make a complete retraction.

Ignacio Comonfort resolved to go with 5,000 loyal troops to the headquarters of the constitutionalists.

Ignacio Comonfort intended to step down from the government and hand over the presidency to his constitutional successor, the president of the Supreme Court, who was Benito Juarez.

Ignacio Comonfort had to deal with recently conscripted troops unsuited to stand a fair chance against the French and he was defeated on 8 May 1863, at the Battle of San Lorenzo, retreating to Mexico City.

Ignacio Comonfort followed the national government when it retreated from the capital on 31 May 1863, and he was even made Minister of War.

Ignacio Comonfort's corpse was taken to San Miguel de Allende, and after the republic was restored in 1867 his ashes were taken to the cemetery of San Fernando.