José María Lozano (29 October 1878 – 17 August 1933) was a Mexican lawyer and conservative politician who briefly served as Secretary of Public Instruction and Fine Arts and Secretary of Commerce and Public Works in the cabinet of Victoriano Huerta, the army general who assumed control of the country following a coup d'état against the democratically elected president, Francisco I. Madero.[1]
José María Lozano | |
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 José María Lozano in 1913 | |
| Secretary of Commerce and Public Works | |
| In office 15 September 1913 – 14 October 1913 | |
| President | Victoriano Huerta |
| Secretary of Public Instruction and Fine Arts | |
| In office 11 August 1913 – 15 September 1913 | |
| President | Victoriano Huerta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 October 1878 San Miguel el Alto, Jalisco |
| Died | 17 August 1933 (aged 54) Mexico City |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Parent(s) | Andres Lozano and Elodia Rabago |
| Alma mater | National School of Jurisprudence |
Before assuming his post in the cabinet, Lozano served as federal congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, where he led a group of conservative Anti-Maderistas along fellow deputies Nemesio García Naranjo of Nuevo León, Francisco de Olaguíbel of State of Mexico, and Querido Moheno of Chiapas.[2] At Huerta's request, he also tried to build a legislative majority sympathetic to his regime.[3]
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edit- ^ Tablada, José Juan (1992). Diario: (1900-1944) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 119. ISBN 978-968-36-2827-5. OCLC 252843055. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ Werner, Michael S. (January 2001). Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico. New York City, N.Y.: Taylor & Francis. p. 432. ISBN 978-1-57958-337-8. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
During Huerta's first period, the House of Representatives had a liberal majority (most of its members had been elected during Madero's administration) that effectively served as a true counterweight to conservative members José María Lozano of Jalisco, Nemesio García Naranjo of Nuevo León, Francisco de Olaguiberri [sic] of the Mexico State, Querido Moheno of Chiapas, and the Catholic minority, so the liberals were able to put obstacles before the executive powers.
- ^ Cumberland, Charles C. (1 January 1972). Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionalist Years. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-292-75016-6. OCLC 207628. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
As the first step in bringing the rebellious Congress under control, in mid-August Huerta appointed José María Lozano to the cabinet. Lozano enjoyed considerable prestige in the legislative chambers and could presumably exercise some influence there. When Congress continued to be recalcitrant, Huerta took an additional step the following month: he commissioned Lozano to form a majority bloc in the chamber of deputies and at the same time appointed Catholic party Deputy Eduardo Tamariz to the cabinet.
- ^ García Cantú, Gastón, ed. (1987). El pensamiento de la reacción mexicana: historia documental. (1860-1926) (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. pp. 249–252. ISBN 978-968-36-0050-9. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ^ Lozano, José María (1960). Discursos y conferencias, 1919-1932 (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Jus. OCLC 31988556.