José María Gutiérrez de Estrada

José María Gutiérrez de Estrada (17 October 1800 – 17 May 1867), was a Mexican diplomat and politician born in San Francisco de Campeche when this city was still a part of the Captaincy General of Yucatán and died in Paris, France. He was one of the first foreign representatives sent to Europe by President Guadalupe Victoria to establish relations. He served as Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations during the presidency of Antonio López de Santa Anna in 1835. He was also a Senator of the Republic for Yucatán.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gutiérrez and the second or maternal family name is De Estrada.
José María Gutiérrez de Estrada
Minister of Interior and Exterior Relations
In office
23 January 1835 – 1 June 1835
PresidentAntonio López de Santa Anna
Miguel Barragán
Preceded byFrancisco María Lombardo
Succeeded byJosé María Ortiz Monasterio
Personal details
Born(1800-10-17)17 October 1800
San Francisco de Campeche, New Spain
Died17 May 1867(1867-05-17) (aged 66)
Paris, France
Political partyConservative

In 1863, he headed the delegation that offered the Mexican throne to Maximilian of Habsburg at Miramare Castle. His brother, Joaquín Gutiérrez de Estrada, also a conservative politician, was Governor of Yucatán.

Early life

José María Gutiérrez was born into a wealthy Yucatec family which allowed him to receive a formal education in Mexico City. He was only 28 years old in 1828 when president Guadalupe Victoria sent him to Europe as part of a diplomatic mission to the Dutch Republic.

It was at this time that he was married to the sister of the Count of La Cortina, uniting him to another very wealthy Mexican family.

In 1831, he was elected to the national Senate as a deputy from Yucatan, representing the Centralist Party, which won him the great enmity of the Federalists in Congress, especially Manuel Crescencio García Rejón. In 1833, he was exiled by the liberal government of Valentín Gómez Farías.

Estrada was becoming renowned as a conservative and as a talented writer, in part due to his aristocratic connections with the Count of Cortina who played an important role in the cultural life of Mexico in the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1835, under the presidency of Santa Anna, he was appointed to be the minister of interior and foreign relations.


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