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Ignacio Comonfort

Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Rios (12 March 1812 – 13 November 1863) was President of Mexico from 11 December 1855 to 17 December 1857, succeeding Juan Alvarez and preceding Benito Juarez

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Ignacio Gregorio Comonfort de los Rios was born in Puebla de los Angeles, Puebla, Mexico in 1812 to French immigrant parents. He served in the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War, and he later became a leader of the Liberal Party of Mexico and served as Governor of Jalisco from 1854 to 1855 and as Secretary of War from 1854 to 1857, and, in 1855, he took over the presidency from Juan Alvarez after Alvarez's resignation. Comonfort was a moderate liberal, and he passed an anti-clerical constitution which weakened the Catholic Church and enfranchised all citizens. He appointed Benito Juarez to the Supreme Court, but when Comonfort attempted to make himself dictator, Juarez declared his action unconstitutional, and Comonfort resigned and was replaced as President by Juarez. He served as a general during the French Intervention, but he was killed in a bandito attack at Celaya, Guanajuato in 1863.

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