biography
| name: |
Juárez, Benito Pablo
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pronunciation:
[hwahres]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1806–72)
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| biography:
| Mexican national hero and president (1861–72), born of Indian parents in San Pablo Guelatao, S Mexico. His ideas for reform forced him to live in exile (1853–5), but he then joined the new Liberal government. During the civil war of 1857–60, he assumed the presidency, and was elected to that office on the Liberal victory (1861). The French invasion under Maximilian forced him to the far N, from where he directed resistance until the defeat of Maximilian, in 1867. |
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