Manuel María de Zamacona y Murphy

Manuel María de Zamacona
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Mexico)
In office 13 July 1861 – 26 November 1861[1]
President	Benito Juárez[2]
Preceded by	León Guzmán[2]
Succeeded by	Manuel Doblado
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States
In office 2 May 1878 – 3 March 1882[3]
Preceded by	José Tomás de Cuéllar[3]
Succeeded by	Matías Romero[3]
President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico
In office 1898–1898
Personal details
Born	(1826-09-13)13 September 1826 Puebla, Puebla[2]
Died	29 May 1904(1904-05-29) (aged 77) Mexico City
Nationality	Mexican
Spouse	Joaquina Inclán[4]
Children	Amelia, Elena María and Manuel María de Zamacona e Inclán[4]
Parent(s)	Camilo María de Zamacona Fernández, lawyer of the Royal Audience, and María Micaela Murphy García de Ruesca[4]
Education	Carolinian College (Puebla) and Seminary of Puebla

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is de Zamacona and the second or maternal family name is Murphy.

Manuel María Eutimio de Zamacona y Murphy (13 September 1826 – 29 May 1904) was a Mexican radical liberal lawyer, journalist, and politician. Born in Puebla, he studied at seminary and went on to practice law. As a journalist he founded El Siglo XIX, an influential newspaper founded in 1852.^[5] He served as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Benito Juárez (1861).^[1][6] He negotiated an agreement with the British Ambassador to Mexico, Charles Wyke, known as the Wyke-Zamacona Treaty, which sought an interim solution of the Juárez government's problems concerning the external debt to Great Britain, France, and Spain. When Juárez decided to suspend payments on the foreign debt in July 1861, he risked foreign intervention. The treaty was aimed at forestalling that, but it was rejected by the Mexican congress. With that rejection, Zamacona resigned from Juárez's government and went on to lead the liberal opposition to Juárez.^[7] He negotiated diplomatic recognition to the administration of President Porfirio Díaz from the government of the United States (1878)^[3][8] and presided over the Supreme Court of Justice.^[2][9]

Notes and references

1. "Manuel María de Zamacona". Los cancilleres de México a través de su historia: Siglo XIX (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
2. Ponce Alcocer, María Eugenia (2000). La eleccíon de Manuel González, 1878-1880: preludio de un presidencialismo (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Iberoamericana. pp. 134–138. ISBN 978-968-859-403-2. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
3. "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
4. Sanchiz Ruiz, Javier E. "Manuel María Eutimio Zamacona y Morphy". Geneanet. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
5. Brian Hamnett, Juárez, New York: Longmans 1994, pp. 179-80.
6. Peña y Reyes, Antonio de la (1928). La labor diplomatica de D. Manuel Maria de Zamacona, como secretario de Relaciones Exteriores (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores. pp. vii–xxv. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
7. Hamnett, Juárez, pp. 154, 280.
8. Lajous, Roberta (31 October 2012). Historia mínima de las relaciones exteriores de México, 1821-2000 (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico. pp. 101–102. ISBN 978-607-462-621-6. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
9. Gutiérrez Nájera, Manuel (1959). Periodismo y literatura, artículos, ensayos (1877-1894) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 475. ISBN 978-968-36-9542-0. Retrieved 8 November 2014.