Manuel Robles Pezuela

Plan of Tacubaya

23 May 1817 Guanajuato, Guanajuato

23 March 1862 (aged 44) Ciudad Serdán, Puebla

24 December 1858 – 23 January 1859

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Robles and the second or maternal family name is Pezuela. Manuel Robles Pezuela (23 May 1817 – 23 March 1862). He was unconstitutional provisional President of Mexico from 1858 to 1859 on the conservative side in the Mexican War of the Reform, serving by appointment of a military junta in opposition to the constitutional President Benito Juárez, who was the head of the liberal party. During the War of the French Intervention, Robles Pezuela was captured and shot under direct orders of Benito Juárez for siding with his enemy faction. See also Mexico portal Biography portal List of heads of state of Mexico