of the Treasury. Lorenzo de Zavala – Liberal writer, historian, and statesman who served as Governor of the state of Mexico. During the collapse of the First Mexican Republic, he gained infamy for supporting Texan Independence. Ezequiel Montes – Liberal jurist, professor, and statesman who served as foreign minister under President Ignacio Comonfort. Juan José Baz – governor of the Federal district and partisan of Valentín Gómez Farías. Angel Albino Corzo – liberal congressman and governor of Chiapas. Juan Antonio de la Fuente – Governor of Coahuila and served as minister under multiple presidents during La Reforma. Manuel Alas Sardaneta y Pompa – Governor of the state of Mexico who went on the be president of the Supreme Court. Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora – Governor of Veracruz who protected President Juarez during the Reform War eventually turning Veracruz into the Liberal capital. Juan José de la Garza – Governor of Tamaulipas, general during the Reform War and the Second French Intervention and later minister plenipotentiary to El Salvador and Guatemala Ignacio Vallarta – Jurist and governor of Jalisco. He was present at the convention that drafted the Constitution of 1857 Ponciano Arriaga – Lawyer and congressman who would go on to serve as Minister of Justice and President of the Chamber of Deputies. Santiago Vidaurri – Influental governor of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila and commander of the armies of the north during the Reform War. He abandoned the liberal president Benito Juarez during the Second French Intervention in Mexico and joined the Second Mexican Empire leaving to Mexico City to become an adviser to Emperor Maximilian. After the fall of the Empire he was capture and executed by the restored republic. José María Lacunza – He served as a Minister during the moderate liberal presidency of Jose Joaquin Herrera. He was also a faculty adviser to the liberal writer Ignacio Ramirez. During the Second French Intervention he accepted a post under the Second Mexican Empire for which he was exiled after the fall of the Empire. Writers Francisco Zarco – Writer who has been characterized as the greatest of the Liberal journalists. He wrote a detailed account of the debates during the drafting of the Constitution of 1857. José María Luis Mora – priest who served as one of leading liberal intellectuals during the First Mexican Republic. He served in congress and wrote on politics and history. Ignacio Ramirez – Atheistic