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Juan Álvarez

1790 - 1867

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Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez Hurtado de Luna, generally known as Juan Álvarez, (27 January 1790 – 21 August 1867) was a general, long-time caudillo (regional leader) in southern Mexico, and president of Mexico for two months in 1855, following the liberals' ouster of Antonio López de Santa Anna. His presidency inaugurated the pivotal era of La Reforma. Álvarez had risen to power in the Tierra Caliente, in southern Mexico with the support of indigenous peasants whose lands he protected. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Álvarez has received more than 168,437 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Juan Álvarez is the 13,997th most popular politician (down from 10,269th in 2019), the 225th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 136th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Mexican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Juan Álvarez ranks 13,997 out of 19,576Before him are Pen Sovan, Ulrich IV, Count of Württemberg, Eugenio Montero Ríos, Ibrahim Nasir, Milan Bandić, and Fritz Graebner. After him are Hasan Saka, Tomás Romero Pereira, Liu He, Duško Marković, Ahmose-Sitkamose, and Quintus Marcius Philippus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Juan Álvarez ranks 44Before him are Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella, Ignaz von Rudhart, Melchor Múzquiz, Jean René Constant Quoy, and Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger. After him are Letitia Christian Tyler, Abel P. Upshur, Heinrich XIX, Prince Reuss of Greiz, William Davies Evans, John Ross, and Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. Among people deceased in 1867, Juan Álvarez ranks 51Before him are Santiago Derqui, Artur Grottger, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, José Mariano Salas, and Karl Ferdinand Sohn. After him are Phan Thanh Giản, Athanasios Miaoulis, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Charles John Andersson, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, and Albert Auguste Perdonnet.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juan Álvarez ranks 225 out of 729Before him are Arturo Márquez (1950), Gilbert Roland (1905), Luis E. Miramontes (1925), Irma Serrano (1933), Diego Luna (1979), and Rodolfo Neri Vela (1952). After him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Lucas Alamán (1792), Lola Beltrán (1932), Alfonso Arau (1932), and Arturo de Córdova (1908).

Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Juan Álvarez ranks 78Before him are Manuel de la Peña y Peña (1789), Eulalio Gutiérrez (1881), Andrés Quintana Roo (1787), Melchor Múzquiz (1790), José Mariano Salas (1797), and Sergio Pitol (1933). After him are Pedro María de Anaya (1795), Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (1800), Roque González Garza (1885), Angélica Rivera (1969), Martín Carrera (1806), and Eight Deer Jaguar Claw (1063).