Pedro Celestino Negrete

Pedro Celestino Negrete (1777–1846) was President of Mexico from October 4th, 1823 to October 10th, 1824.

He was born in Spain. He belonged to the realistic army; and he fought the insurgents. In 1821 he was united to the Plan de Iguala, and he worked so that the States adhered to him. When crowning himself Agustín de Iturbide emperor, decided to be united to the Plan de Casa Mata and using himself friendship with this one, he exerted pressure so that he abdicated. To the dethroned being Agustín de Iturbide, the Executive authority was without representative, and for this reason the Congress created a provisional government formed by general Pedro Celestino Negrete, general Nicolás Bravo and general Guadalupe Victoria; as both last were absentees, José Mariano Michelena, Miguel Domínguez and general Vicente Guerrero were designated in their place. In October 4,1824 were promulgated the Constitution of the Mexican United States, in which the system of republican government was adopted, representative, popular and federal.

The country was divided in nineteen Free and Sovereign States, four Territories that depended on the center and the Federal District. Also, the power was divided in Legislative, Executive and Judicial. This Constitution was looked in many points to the control mechanism of the United States, to the French Constitution and the one of Cádiz. It was in force from October 4, 1824 to April 30, 1836, date in which was replaced by another one, centralist one. General Negrete was to the control of the Executive authority until October 10, 1824, when general Guadalupe Victoria assumed the position. Although the Castle of San Juan de Ulúa - last redoubt of the Spanish power in México had been left in 1825, existed some peninsular ones that still thought about the possibility of recovering the monarchy taking advantage of the displeasure against the independent government. This way, the friars Joaquín Arenas and Francisco Martínez, along with some Mexican and Spanish military between which they appeared Negrete and Echávarri, rebelled against the government of Guadalupe Victoria. In January 9, 1827 this conspiracy was discovered. The leaders were judged, the friars were sentenced until death and Negrete and Echávarri were exiled. Pedro Celestino Negrete marched to France. He died in Bordeaux (1846) .