
Walter V. Scholes
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Professor of History, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1954–75. Author of Mexican Politics During the Juárez Regime, 1855–1872 and others.
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Benito Juárez was a national hero and president of Mexico (1861–72), who for three years (1864–67) fought against foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian and who sought constitutional reforms to create a democratic federal republic. Juárez was born of Mesoamerican Indian parents, both of…
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