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Inés García de López de Santa Anna

Inés García de López de Santa Anna

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Inés García de López de Santa Anna, also María Inés de la Paz García y Martínez de Uzcanga (Jan. 21, 1811 in Alvarado, Viceroyalty of New Spain – Aug. 23, 1844) was the First Lady of Mexico as the first wife of Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Biography

She married Santa Anna in a ceremony on September 25, 1825, in Alvarado, in which her husband was not present.[1][2][3] Her parents were wealthy Spaniards.[1][4] Santa Anna received more than six million pesos as a dowry, as well as receiving a hacienda between Veracruz and Jalapa (today, Xalapa).[5][6] The couple would go on to have four children together: Guadalupe, María del Carmen, Manuel and Antonio.[4][7][1]

She served as the First Lady of Mexico in three separate periods: from March 1839 to July 1839 (Santa Anna's third term as president); October 1841 to October 1842 (Santa Anna's fourth term as president); and March 1843 to October 1843 (when Santa Anna served as dictator).[8] According to several sources, she was popular as First Lady.[9]

Santa Anna and his wife adopted a Texan boy, John Christopher Columbus Hill, as their son.[10][11] Hill had been captured during the siege of San Antonio, and was then sent to Mexico City, where he asked Santa Anna to free his imprisoned brother and father.[11] Santa Anna agreed, on the condition that he and his wife could adopt Hill.[11] Hill agreed and remained in Mexico, where he earned a doctorate from the Colegio de Minería (College of Mining).[11]

Frances Erskine Inglis, also known as Fanny Calderón, related in her 1843 book Life in Mexico after a stay at the hacienda that it was beautiful, and that her hostess offered her a cigarette from her gold and diamond cigarette case, which Fanny declined, and then her hostess lit a small paper cigarette, quite a contrast to the opulence of the case.[6] This was seen as scandalously modern.[6]

She died in August 1844 and was buried in the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral in the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe.[6]

References

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    Fowler, Will (2005). "All the Presidents Women: The Wives of General Antonio López de Santa Anna in 19th Century Mexico" (PDF). Feminist Review. 79 (79): 52–68. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400199. ISSN 0141-7789. JSTOR 3874428. S2CID 143266575. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 – via JSTOR.
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    Callcott, Wilfred H. "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de". Texas State Historical Organization. Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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    "Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876". Social Networks and Archival Context. Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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    Mabry, Donald J. (2002). "Santa Anna, Antonio López de (1794-1876)". Historical Text Archive: Electronic History Resources. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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    Potash, Robert A. (1964). "Testamentos de Santa Anna". Historia Mexicana (in Spanish). 13 (3): 434. ISSN 0185-0172. JSTOR 25135219 – via JSTOR.
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    Sefchovich, Sara (2010). La suerte de la consorte: las esposas de los gobernantes de México: historia de un olvido y relato de un fracaso (in Spanish). Mexico City: Océano. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-607-735-133-7. OCLC 890474489.
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    Carmona Dávila, Doralicia (2021). "López de Santa Anna y Pérez Lebrón Antonio". Memoria Política de México (in Spanish).
  8. [8]
    Dictionary of Mexican Rulers. pp. 73–75.
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    Haynes, Sam W. "Essays: The Fall of the Herrera Government| A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War". The University of Texas Arlington. Center for Greater Southwestern Studies. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
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    Arambula, Odie (April 23, 2011). "Santa Anna adopts Texas boy as son". LMT Online.
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    Amberson, Mary (2007). "A Brave Boy and a Good Soldier: John C. C. Hill and the Texas Expedition to Mier". Texas A&M University Press. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

Further reading

  • Serchovich, Sara. (2010) La suerte de la consorte. Las esposas de los gobernantes de México: historia de un olvido y relato de un fracaso. México, Océano. p. 87-89.
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