Albino Pérez
Albino Pérez | |
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10th Mexican Governor of New Mexico | |
In office July 1835 – August 1837 | |
Preceded by | Francisco Sarracino |
Succeeded by | José María González |
Personal details | |
Died | August 8, 1837 Santa Fe |
Nationality | Mexican |
Profession | Soldier, politician |
Albino Pérez (died 8 August 1837) was a Mexican
Career
Albino Pérez was a native of Veracruz, Mexico.[2]
Pérez was a distinguished army colonel from central Mexico. He was appointed
Pérez rapidly became unpopular as a representative of the centralist government who was expected to enforce its Departmental Plan and taxation program.[1] On 16 October 1835, he announced new regulations of trade along the Santa Fe–Chihuahua Trail. He linked increases in attacks by well-armed Comanche, Apache, Ute, and Navajo raiders to illegal trade in guns with these Indians, and the regulations stopped this trade as well as stopping beaver trapping without license. The law, however reasonable, was unpopular.[5]
It did not help that he had an autocratic manner and was not a native of the province. Pérez dissolved the municipal council of
Pérez managed, with difficulty, to assemble 200 volunteers to put down the
Memorial
The Daughters of the American Revolution originally erected the simple stone marker, engraved with the date of Pérez's assassination, near the corner of Hickox and Agua Fría streets in Santa Fe, in 1901. But by 1970, the stone had become so worn that it was moved to the Palace of the Governors for safekeeping. For years, it has sat beneath one of the giant cottonwoods in the palace's courtyard. In June 2007 a monument commemorating Pérez was deeded to the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e Wroth 2012.
- ^ Sánchez 2010, p. 268.
- ^ Gonzales de la Vara 2000, p. 27.
- ^ Locke 2008, p. 192.
- ^ Sánchez 2010, p. 269-270.
- Sources
- Gonzales de la Vara, Martin (January–April 2000). "La Rebelion de los Canaderos en Nuevo Mexico, 1837-1838" (PDF). Cuicuilco (in Spanish). 7 (18). Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
- Locke, Raymond Friday (2008-01-01). The Book of the Navajo. Holloway House Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87687-500-1. Retrieved 2012-08-22.
- Sánchez, Joseph P. (2010-07-10). "It Happened in Old Santa Fe, The Death of Governor Albino Perez, 1835-1837". All Trails Lead to Santa Fe (Hardcover). Sunstone Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-86534-760-1. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
- Wroth, William H. (2012). "Rebellion of Rio Arriba-1837". New Mexico State Record Center and Archives. Archived from the original on 2011-09-10. Retrieved 2012-07-15.