Ignacio Mariscal (

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, Mexico July 5, 1829 –

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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

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administration. During the

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'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

, Mexico on July 5, 1829; his father were deputy during the

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. 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

in 1854. With the triumph of the liberals, Juarez invited him to take part of the

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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

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. This Congress drew up the

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. He was member of the Judicial Committee where he took part on the debates related to the military and ecclesiastical

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. With the beginning of the

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, he traveled with

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Juarez to

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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

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, traducción (1895); * ''Concurso científico nacional'' (1897); * ''Don

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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.

References

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