José Joaquín Pesado

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pesado and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.

José Joaquín Pesado Pérez
Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations
In office 14 November 1838 – 10 December 1838
President	Anastasio Bustamante
Preceded by	Luis Gonzaga Cuevas
Succeeded by	Manuel Gómez Pedraza
Personal details
Born	(1801-02-09)9 February 1801 Palmar de Bravo, New Spain
Died	3 March 1861(1861-03-03) (aged 60) Mexico City, Mexico
Political party	Conservative
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José Joaquín Pesado Pérez (Palmar de Bravo, Puebla, New Spain, 9 February 1801 — Mexico City, 3 March 1861) was a Mexican writer, journalist, poet and politician. He was born in San Agustín del Palmar, Puebla, in 1801 and died in Mexico City in 1861. In 1822, he married María de la Luz de la Llave y Segura, and Juana Segura Argüelles twenty years later.

Pesado was Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (es:Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Gobernación y Policía), Interior Minister (es: Ministerio del Interior), Foreign minister (es:Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores), and Governor of Veracruz (es: Gobernador de Veracruz). He joined the nineteenth-century literary society the Academia de Letrán. He was also a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and professor of philosophy. He published in El Radical and El Año Nuevo. He was editor of El Mosaico Mexicano, El Recreo de las familias, El Nuevo Año and La Cruz.

External links

• José Joaquín Pesado Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (in Spanish)
• Los cancilleres de México a través de su historia Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México (in Spanish)
• Estudio sobre José Joaquín Pesado (in Spanish)
• Poemas de José Joaquín Pesado (in Spanish)
• Obras de Pesado, José Joaquín, 1801-1861 (in Spanish)