José Antonio MexÃa
José Antonio Mexía (* 1800 in Xalapa, Veracruz, † May 3, 1839 Acajete, Puebla ) was a Mexican politician, military and business owners.
The parents of José Antonio Mexía were Juana Josefa Hernández and Pedro Mexía. In November 1822, the governor of Texas, José Félix Trespalacios appointed him interpreter of the Cherokee Indian delegation in Mexico City. In 1823 he was briefly a colonel in the Mexican army.
On August 5, 1823 Mexía Charlotte Walker married (* 1801, † September 25, 1864 in Mexico City from typhoid ). Their children were María Adelaida Matilda ( born August 27, 1826 in Tuxpan, † December 22, 1878 in Mexico City) and Enrique Guillermo Antonio Mexía (* January 1829 in Mexico City; † September 19, 1896 ibid ).
From 1823 to 1824 was José Antonio Mexía secretary in the Parliament of Tamaulipas. From 1825 to 1827 he was a tax collector in Tuxpan. From 1825 to 1827 he campaigned for the York Rite Masonic members and the Federal Party. From 1827 to 1832 he was promoted to Brigadier General at the General Staff of General Vicente Guerrero.
From November 1829 to March 1831 was Mexía Secretary in Washington. During this time in Washington, he was representative and lobbyist for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. This settlement had acquired concessions for Texas by Mexican empresarios and entrepreneurs like Manuel Lorenzo Justiniano de Zavala y Sáenz. A business idea was to produce cotton in Texas in a slave-owning economy, although slavery had been forbidden in Mexico by Miguel Hidalgo. The Mexican government issued restrictive laws that foreigners are not likely to settle at the borders and near the coast. Americans immigration was prohibited in Mexico and closed the border of Texas to the United States from 1830 to 1834. Nevertheless, the settlement concessions for Texas were sold to gullible U.S. willing to settle, even though the relevant land titles had only paper value. José Antonio Mexía was the front man of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company in Mexico City.
Mexía supported Antonio López de Santa Anna during an uprising in 1832 and took to the army, the city of Matamoros.
In June 1832 there were riots in Anahuac and de Santa Anna sent him with the so-called Mexía 's expedition to Texas to quell this. Stephen F. Austin convinced him that the settlers were loyal to Mexico.
In March 1834 Mexía owned 243 540 acres colonization concessions on his own behalf and reported fraudulent, that the law which forbade the immigration of Americans, had been repealed. In 1834 he was a senator for the state of Mexico and joined the Federal army, which rebelled against Antonio López de Santa Anna, at. The revolt lasted two months, then was taken and reported José Antonio Mexía trapped in Jalisco. In New Orleans, he collected 160 irregulars, mainly Americans, with which he tried in November 1835 to occupy Tampico. When the failed raid 31 guerrillas were captured, they were executed de Santa Ana and ordered three of whom died from disease. José Antonio Mexía hit with the rest of the group in December 1835 by Texas.
His proposal to invade Matamoros was not approved at the separatists in Texas. Mexía and returned to New Orleans. From 1836 to 1839 Mexía was a commercial traveler in Cuba and Central America for an export - import company in New Orleans. He was involved in negotiations on an agreement of an inter- oceanic canal through Nicaragua.
On January 3, 1839 Mexía landed in Tampico, took part in the rebellion of General José de Urrea against Antonio López de Santa Anna was captured and in Acajete (Veracruz ). De Santa Anna ordered the execution of Mexía, leaving him three hours to write farewell letters home. As Mexía heard this proviso, he declared that he would de Santa Anna, if he had captured him, conceded just three minutes. Mexía was executed by firing squad.