Sebastin Lerdo de Tejada y Corral (Spanish pronunciation: [seastjan lero e

texaa]; 24 April 1823 21 April 1889) was a jurist and Liberal president of Mexico,
succeeding Benito Jurez who died of a heart attack in July 1872. Lerdo was elected to
his own presidential term later in 1872 rather than remaining successor due to his
previous office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Jurez's political rival liberal
General Porfirio Daz had attempted a coup against Jurez, but his Plan de la Noria failed
and Daz eliminated as a political foe during Lerdo's 1872-76 term, giving Lerdo
considerable leeway to pursue his program without political interference. Lerdo was more
successful than Jurez in his final years as president in pacifying the country and
strengthening the Mexican state.[1] He ran for another term in 1876 and was elected, but
was overthrown by Porfirio Daz and his supporters under the Plan of Tuxtepec, which
asserted the principle of no-reelection to the presidency. Lerdo died in exile in New York
in 1889, but Daz invited the return of his body to Mexico for burial with full honors.[2][3]
Not counting Miguel Miramn, an unrecognized president during the Reform War, he is
the first president of the recognized presidents that was not born during Spanish colonial
rule.