Manuel Cuesta Gallardo (14 April 1873 – 2 December 1920) was a Mexican engineer and landowner, Constitutional Governor of Jalisco, during two brief periods in 1911, which totaled 80 days, in the final stretch of the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz.
Manuel Cuesta Gallardo | |
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| Governor of Jalisco | |
| In office 23 April 1911 – 24 May 1911 | |
| Preceded by | Emiliano Robles |
| Succeeded by | David Gutiérrez Allende |
| In office 1 March 1911 – 19 April 1911 | |
| Preceded by | Juan R. Zavala |
| Succeeded by | Emiliano Robles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Manuel Tiburcio Cástulo Joaquín Cuesta Gallardo 14 April 1873 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Died | 2 December 1920 (aged 47) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Political party | Círculo Nacional Porfirista |
| Spouse |
Victoria Gómez Rubio
(m. 1917) |
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| Coordinates | 20°23′51″N 103°8′7″W / 20.39750°N 103.13528°W |
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Biography
editHe was born in Guadalajara, on 14 April 1873, into a wealthy Jalisco family of landowners.[1] He was the first in a family of ten children, seven men and three women, heirs of the Hacienda of Atequiza, located in the town of the same name, in Jalisco.
His maternal grandfather, Cástulo Gallardo y González de Hermosillo (married on 3 February 1841 to María Francisca Riesch Mallén), had purchased the Hacienda de Atequiza in 1839, north of the town of Atequiza and south of Río Grande de Santiago, in Jalisco. In 1900 the Cuesta Gallardo estate had 31 743 acres (12 846 hectares); 19 768 acres (8000 hectares) were irrigated.[2] There they planted beans, corn, wheat, barley, and sugar cane; they had cattle and horses, in addition to owning and operating a wheat mill equipped with state-of-the-art German technology.
From 1870 to 1900, the Cuesta Gallardo family built a private theater, still standing in 2024, at 99 López Cotilla Street, currently the seat of the House of Culture of the Delegation of Atequiza; the La Florida estate, and the church bell tower, as well as making improvements to the main house. During the hacienda's heyday, from 1839 to 1903, the property was located in the municipality of Poncitlán. On 15 January 1938, the Atequiza commissaryship became part of the municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, segregated from the former, according to decree 4349.[3]
A stately estate in Guadalajara, known as the Casa de los Abanicos (House of Fans), located at 1823 Libertad Avenue on the corner of Moscú Street, Colonia Americana, was owned by the landowner and former governor Manuel Cuesta Gallardo, who acquired it in March 1907, by paying 30 000 pesos, when it was four years after being built. He commissioned the German engineer Ernesto Fuchs to make several improvements. Later it was the headquarters of the ITESO; thereafter, the University Club, and in 2024 it is an event venue.[4]
In 1911 the era of the Porfiriato came to an end. Manuel Cuesta Gallardo, the last Porfirist governor of Jalisco, resigned. He was succeeded by David Gutiérrez Allende on 25 May 1911. On 27 February 1915, Pancho Villa ordered the murder of former governor Manuel's brother, Joaquín Cuesta Gallardo (13 September 1874 – 27 February 1915), accused by the steward of the Hacienda Maltaraña, owned by Joaquín, of being the main and worst cacique (political boss) of La Barca, Jalisco.[5]
The Regional Museum of Guadalajara exhibits an oil easel painting, of the former governor of Jalisco Manuel Cuesta Gallardo.[1]
Tribute
edit42nd Street in the Sector Libertad of Guadalajara bears the name «Manuel Cuesta Gallardo».
References
edit- ^ a b "Manuel Cuesta Gallardo" (in Spanish). Mediateca del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History, INAH). Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ Bobadilla Paniagua, Guadalupe (2004). "1. La cuenca Lerma-Chapala-Santiago hacia 1900-1920 (1. The Lerma–Chapala–Santiago Basin around 1900-1920". Conflictos sociales por el uso del agua en el Lago de Chapala (Social conflicts over the use of water in Lake Chapala) (PDF) (bachelor's degree in History thesis) (in Spanish). National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Colegio de Historia. pp. 26–28. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos" (in Spanish). Government of the State of Jalisco. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ "La Casa de los Abanicos". México Desconocido (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 July 2024.
- ^ González Navarro, Moisés (2000). "Cristeros y agraristas en Jalisco: Vol. 1" (in Spanish). Mexico City: El Colegio de México. Retrieved 11 July 2024.