José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández and Félix He was born on September 29, 1786 in Mexico. He grew up with his uncle in Tamazula and studied at the Durango Seminary and at the San Ildefonso school in Mexico. He joins the forces of Hermenegildo Galeana changing his name to Guadalupe Victoria as he entrusts himself to the Dark Virgin and fights for the victory of the rebel cause. He stands out in the war against Oaxaca and joins the army of Nicolás Bravo in Veracruz. He defends the ports of Nautla and Boquillas de Piedras, but unfortunately the royalists’ army manages to overcome the barriers imposed by Nicolás Bravo.
Victoria establishes a strategy of guerrilla warfare with withering attacks that establish a good number of victims and organizes a government in the dominated territory, setting taxes for the power to continue with its war and appointing judges for the creation of a maritime force. It besieges the cities of Córdoba, Orizaba and Jalapa. Victoria continues to keep the cause alive despite the decline of the insurgent movement in the death of Morelos. He hides but reappears after two years to show his support in the Iguala Plan of Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero. When he met with Iturbide, he maintained differences because they did not agree with the establishment of an empire as opposed to the establishment of a republic. In 1823 he added and went into exile as part of the Supreme Executive Power, sanctioning the Constitutive Act of the Federation; Constitution of 1824) and electing Victoria as president.
It obtains the recognition of Mexican independence in other nations and this facilitates the acquisition of a loan by England to expel all the Spanish. When his government ended in 1829, he retired to live in his house in Jobo in Veracruz. Fight rebellions in Veracruz and Oaxaca and support Durango and Veracruz as senators. He is invested as acting governor of Puebla. After a few years, he assumed the general command of Veracruz before the threat of the French countries. Two years later he married María Antonia Bretón and Velázquez but died shortly after due to an epileptic attack. He died on March 21, 1843.