The first (and to date only) Latinx Governor of California was born on October 31, 1831. Romualdo Pacheco was born in Santa Barbara, California; his father was a native of Guanajuato, Mexico, who died when Pacheco was an infant. His Scottish stepfather sent him to be educated in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he later returned to… Continue reading Romualdo Pacheco, First Latino Governor of California
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Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña in the Mexican War of Independence 1831
February 14, 1831 marked the death of one of the leading revolutionary generals in the Mexican War of Independence, Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña. Guerrero served briefly as the second president of Mexico and was the country’s first multiracial president with European, Native American and African heritages. Guerrero distinguished himself in February 1812 at the Battle… Continue reading Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña in the Mexican War of Independence 1831