Andrés Quintana Roo

Andrés Quintana Roo ( * November 30, 1787 in Mérida, Yucatán, † April 15, 1851 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican politician, author and a prominent person in the Mexican War of Independence, in which he stood on the side of the independence movement against the colonial power Spain.

Life

Quintana Roo was born the son of José Matías Quintana and María Ana de Quintana Roo. His father was the first to introduce a printing press according Yucatán, with a local magazine was made ​​. In the context of this journal the father of the Spanish colonial administration was imprisoned. Quintana Roo was initially formed at the Seminario de San Idelfonso de Mérida, where he discovered his penchant for writing. As of 1808, he then studied law at the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Nueva España in Mexico City.

After completing his studies Quintana Roo worked in a law firm. There he met Leona Vicario, the niece of a royalist partisan, whose hand he was holding. Since Quintana Roo entered for Mexico's independence from Spain, the uncle refused to consent. Nevertheless, the two kept in touch and Leona Vicario support the independence movement through clandestine financial support. In 1813 it was discovered and imprisoned; However, she managed to escape and the couple married in Tlapujahua.

From September to November 1813 took part in the Quintana Roo Congress of Chilpancingo. He was instrumental in the drafting of the Mexican Declaration of Independence of 1813 and is one of its signatories. He was also President of the Constituent Assembly that developed 1813/14 the failed Constitution of Apatzingán.

After the final victory of the separatists about Spain in 1821 was appointed to various posts Quintana Roo by the Mexican Emperor Agustín de Iturbide. He was 1822-1823 State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 1824 to 1827 Judge of the Mexican Supreme Court. He also was a member of the Constituent Assembly, which drafted the Mexican Constitution of 1824. Furthermore, Quintana Roo was a deputy in the Mexican Parliament for the State of México.

On April 15, 1851 Quintana Roo died in Mexico City. Along with those of his wife to rest his bones in the mausoleum under the El Ángel de la Independencia in Mexico City.

Others

After Quintana Roo of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatan Peninsula is named.