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The Maza residence in Oaxaca City, where Juárez worked as a youth, is now known as Casa de Juárez and preserved as a museum. Benito Juárez was born on March 21, 1806, in the village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, [15] located in the mountain range since named for him, the Sierra Juárez.
Benito Juarez, national hero and president of Mexico (1861–72), who for three years (1864–67) fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic. Learn more about his life and accomplishments in this article.
Early life. Juárez was born in the small village of San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca to indigenous parents. His parents were peasants who died when he was three. He worked in the corn fields and as a shepherd until the age of 12. On December 17, 1818, he walked to the city of Oaxaca looking to educate himself and find a better life.
May 21, 2019 · Benito Juárez (March 21, 1806–July 18, 1872) was a Mexican politician and statesman of the late 19th century and president of Mexico for five terms during the turbulent years of 1858–1872. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Juárez’s life in politics was his background: he was a full-blooded native of Zapotec descent and the only full ...
May 29, 2018 · A Zapotec Indian lawyer from the southern state of Oaxaca, Ju á rez stood at the helm of the liberal, reformist republican project during the bloody nineteenth-century civil war against the conservatives, which became a struggle against a monarchical regime supported by French military intervention (1858 – 1867).
Benito Juárez, (born March 21, 1806, San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mex.—died July 18, 1872, Mexico City), National hero and president (1861–72) of Mexico. A Zapotec Indian, Juárez initially studied for the priesthood but later took a law degree and became a legislator, a judge, and a cabinet minister.
Benito Juárez was born on March 21, 1806, in San Pablo Guelatao, a Zapotec-speaking hamlet in Sierra de Ixtlán (renamed the Sierra de Juárez on July 30, 1857) in Mexico’s southeastern state of Oaxaca.
