Ignacio Mariscal

Ignacio Mariscal
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
In office 1 December 1885 – 17 April 1910
President	Porfirio Diaz
Preceded by	Joaquin Baranda
Succeeded by	Federico Gamboa
In office 29 November 1880 – 15 September 1883
President	Porfirio Díaz Manuel González
Preceded by	Miguel Ruelas
Succeeded by	José Fernández
In office 25 May 1871 – 12 June 1872
President	Benito Juárez
Preceded by	Manuel Azpíroz
Succeeded by	José María Lafragua
Personal details
Born	July 5, 1829
Nationality	Mexican
Relations	Married
Alma mater	Oaxaca Institute of Arts and Sciences
Profession	Diplomat
Website	sre.gob.mx

Ignacio Mariscal (Oaxaca, Mexico July 5, 1829 – Mexico City April 17, 1910) was a Mexican liberal lawyer, politician, writer, and diplomat. He was named Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1871–72, for the first time during the Benito Juárez administration. During the Porfirio Diaz's government, he held the office in 1880–83 and 1885–1910. In 1909, he was the President of Mexican Academy of the Language.

Biography

Mariscal was born in Oaxaca, Mexico on July 5, 1829; his father were deputy during the Mexican–American War. He studied law at the Oaxaca Institute of Arts and Sciences, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1849.

For his opposition to the pro Santa Anna's governor, Ignacio Martínez Pinillo, he moved to Mexico City in 1854. With the triumph of the liberals, Juarez invited him to take part of the Juan Álvarez administration. He was named advisor on the implementation of Ecclesiastical Confiscations Law.

For his law knowledge and experience, his was elected as deputy of the 1857 Constituent Congress of Mexico. This Congress drew up the Constitution of 1857. He was member of the Judicial Committee where he took part on the debates related to the military and ecclesiastical Fuero. With the beginning of the Reform War, he traveled with President Juarez to Veracruz.

Writings

He wrote several books; among them:

• Exposición sobre el código de procedimientos penales (1880) México;
• Historia de las dificultades entre México y Guatemala. Proyectada Intervención de Estados Unidos. Algunos documentos oficiales (1882);
• Discursos de los Exmos. Señores L. Marroquín é I. Mariscal en la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (1899) México: Imp. Francisco Díaz de León.
• Memoria que en cumplimiento del precepto constitucional presenta al duodécimo Congreso de la Unión, el C. Ignacio Mariscal rendido ante el Senado acerca del tratado de límites entre Yucatán y Belice (1893) México;
• El Cuervo, original de Edgar Allan Poe, traducción (1895);
• Concurso científico nacional (1897);
• Don Nicolás Bravo o la clemencia mexicana (1900);
• Juárez y el libro de Bulnes (1904);
• Episodios en la vida de Juárez (1906);
• Poesías (1911) Madrid. Editor Balbino Dávalos.