Lerdo De Tejada
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIA (lar'do dā tā-hädä), a Mexican states- Mexican state man; born in Jalapa, Mexico, April 25, supreme xico, April 1825; appointed a judge of the 1855; was Minister of the suprem court in June, Minister Foreign Affairs for a short time two tort time years later; member of Congress in 1861gress in 186 1862 and in 1862-1863; was a companwas a compe ion of President Juarez in 1863-1867, during which time he was successively in 1868-18 It was known to to successive Minister of Justice and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was elected chief - jusinister of F tice of the supreme court in December, cted chief- Lin Decemb 1867, and on the death of Juarez, July 18, he succeeded to the presidency; uares, July te presiden 1872, was elected to that post in the following the follow November. In 1876 he was again canand after the as again c didate to succeed himself which was in doubt, he was deand after election, bt, be was clared re-elected by Congress. This acess. This tion resulted in a revolution and Lerdo on and Le was forced to leave the country. He lived in retirement in New York City ew York C till his death, April 21, 1889. LÉRIDA, a town of Spain, capital of ein, expital the province of Lérida on a tributary of the Ebro, 114 miles W. by N. of Bara tribut Linguistic Research" (1834); "Kinship celona, pop. about 25,000. The second by N. of F of the Semitic, city of Catalonia, Lerida has a castle The sec Persian, and Old Egyptian has a ca two churches, one an ancient Byzantino-Moorish edifice, now edifice, used as a barracks, the other a modern Græco-Roman building. It carries on of woolens, cottons, t carries manufactures cott 219, leather, paper, and glass. Near Lerida, Near Ler the Celtiberian Ilerda, Scipio Africanus bio Africa defeated Hanno (216 B. c.); and Cæsar, lieutenants of Pompey (49 b. c.). the (40 b. The Goths made it a bishop's see and op's see held here a council of the Church in the Church in 6th century. In 1300 a university was Diveranty founded here; it is now extinct. The extinct. town has been several times besieged, on besleged the last occasion by the French in 1810. ench in 1 LÉRINS (lā-rang), a small group of ball group French islands in the Mediterranean, 21/2 miles S. E. of Cannes. On Sainte-Marin the pr guérite (the ancient Lerona), 4 miles in Dake of 1 circumference, stands a fortress in which rebellion the Man with the Iron Mask and Marimprisone shal Bazaine were at different times De crossed confined, and from which Bazaine esquently caped in 1874. Normand
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The bare facts of Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada's career as Collier's gave them in 1921 still stand: he followed Juarez into the presidency in July 1872, was declared re-elected by Congress in 1876 after a disputed vote, and died in exile in New York in 1889. What has changed is the framing. Collier's calls the rising against him simply a revolution; historians now name it the Plan de Tuxtepec and treat it as the start of Porfirio Diaz's grip on Mexico, which lasted until 1911 and ended in the Revolution that Collier's own writers had lived through. Lerdo is also credited more firmly today with the 1873 measures that wrote the Reform Laws, including the separation of church and state, into the constitution itself, work often confused with the 1856 Ley Lerdo of his elder brother Miguel.
Written for this edition, 2026.