President Benito Juárez
On January 15, 1858, Benito Juárez was inaugurated for the first of his five terms as president of Mexico. Juárez was a lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca. He was the first indigenous national to serve as President of Mexico and to lead a country in the post 1492 Western Hemisphere.
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