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Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María de los Ángeles y de los Dolores Luis Gonzaga Ignacio de Loyola Bernardo de Ojeda Juan Francisco Régis Leonardo Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Lascuráin Paredes
b. 12 May 1858, La Romita (now in Mexico City)
d. 21 Jul 1952, Mexico City |
| Title: |
Presidente Interino Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Interim Constitutional President of the United Mexican States) |
| Term: |
19 Feb 1913 - 19 Feb 1913 |
| Chronology: |
19 Feb 1913, entered upon the duties of the office of Interim Constitutional President of the United Mexican States upon the resignation of the incumbent (Diario de los Debates de la Cámara de Diputados, No. 29, 19 Feb 1913, pp. 13-16) [1] |
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19 Feb 1913, took oath of office as Interim Constitutional President of the Mexican United States, session of the Congreso, Mexico City (Diario de los Debates de la Cámara de Diputados, No. 29, 19 Feb 1913, p. 16) |
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19 Feb 1913, resignation of Lascuráin is accepted, resolution of the Cámara de Diputados of 19 Feb 1913 (promulgated as a decree on 20 Feb 1913) (Diario Oficial, No. 37, 20 Feb 1913, pp. 423-424; Diario de los Debates de la Cámara de Diputados, No. 29, 19 Feb 1913, p. 18) |
| Biography: |
| Son of Francisco Lascuráin Icaza and Ana Paredes Cortés, daughter of Mariano Paredes, Interim President of the Mexican Republic (1846); studied law at the National School of Law; attended a seminary in Mexico City; graduated form the National School of Jurisprudence; was admitted to the bar in 1880; practiced law in Mexico City; married a daughter of the governor of Durango Juan Fernando Flores (1890); served as a legal representative (sindico), councillor (concejal) and president of the municipal council of Mexico City; served twice as secretary for foreign affairs in the cabinet of Francisco Madero (1912, 1913); after the acceptance of the resignations of President (Madero) and Vice President (José María Pino Suárez) of the United Mexican States by the Cámara de Diputados, he assumed the presidency on 19 Feb 1913; within an hour, he appointed Victoriano Huerta as secretary of state for the interior and immediately resigned; resumed legal practice; held the office of director of the National School of Law. |
| Biographical sources: birth and baptismal record in Archivo de la Parroquia del Sagrario Metropolitano de Mexico, Bautismos de españoles, Serie B, 44, 1858, fol. 51, #540; El Universal: el gran diario de México, 22 Jul 1952, p. 1 (obituary); Altamirano Cozzi, Graziella. Pedro Lascurain: un hombre en la encrucijada de la revolución. México, D.F. : Instituto Mora, 2004. |
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The functions of the President of the United Mexican States devolved on the secretary for foreign affairs in accordance with Art. 81 of the Constitution of 1857 (as modified by the law promulgated on 6 May 1904). |
