Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)

President of Mexico

c. 7 January 1797 Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain

(1849-09-07 ) 7 September 1849 Mexico City

31 December 1845 – 28 July 1846

15th President of Mexico (1845-46) Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga (c. 7 January 1797 – 7 September 1849) was a Conservative Mexican general and president. He took power via a coup d'état in 1846. He was the president at the start of the Mexican–American War, and was himself overthrown on 28 July 1846. "Strongly proclerical, he believed that a liberal democracy and federal structure were inappropriate for Mexico in its then state of development, and that the country could be governed only by the army in alliance with the educated and affluent elite."