José María Montoya (diplomat)

Jose María Montoya
Chargé d'affaires of Mexico to the United States (ad interim)
In office
10 September 1828 – February 1830[1]
President Pablo Obregón[1]
Preceded by José María Tornel[1]
In office
6 June 1831 – 31 December 1833[1]
Preceded by José María Tornel[1]
Succeeded by Joaquín María del Castillo y Lanzas[1]
Personal details
Nationality Mexican

Jose María Montoya was a Mexican diplomat who served twice as ad interim chargé d'affaires of Mexico to the United States of America (1828–1830 and 1831–1833).[1]

During his first stint as chargé d'affaires, Montoya substituted Envoy Pablo Obregón, a former colonel in the Army of the Three Guarantees who committed suicide at the embassy in August 1828.[2][3]

From February 1830 to June 1831, he was substituted by José María Tornel, who served several times as secretary of War in the cabinet of Antonio López de Santa Anna.[4] When Tornel returned to Mexico, Montoya was reappointed as chargé and held the post until 31 December 1833, when he was substituted by Joaquín María del Castillo y Lanzas.[1]

Montoya kept working at the embassy as trade commissioner (in Spanish: encargado de negocios), and was substituted in that post by the ephemeral Mexican emperor, Agustín de Iturbide.[5]

Notes and references

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Iturriaga, José E. (1988). México en el Congreso de Estados Unidos (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Educación Pública. p. 99. ISBN 978-968-16-2930-4. Retrieved 9 October 2014. El encargado de negocios era desde el 28 de agosto de 1828 José María Montoya, quien sustituyó al segundo ministro plenipotenciario enviado a Estados Unidos, el coronel Pablo Obregón —que se suicidó.
  3. ↑ Zorrilla, Luis G. (1977). Historia de las relaciones entre México y los Estados Unidos de América, 1800-1958 (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Porrúa. pp. 59, 93. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Will Fowler (2000). Tornel and Santa Anna: The Writer and the Caudillo, Mexico, 1795-1853. Westport, CT, United States: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30914-4. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Bosch García, Carlos (1983). Documentos de la relación de México con los Estados Unidos (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 307. ISBN 978-968-5805-52-0. OCLC 633974572. Retrieved 9 October 2014.


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