José Joaquín Pesado Pérez (Palmar de Bravo, Puebla, New Spain, 9 February 1801 — Mexico City, 3 March 1861) was a Mexican writer, journalist, poet and politician. He was born in San Agustín del Palmar, Puebla, in 1801 and died in Mexico City in 1861. In 1822, he married María de la Luz de la Llave y Segura, and Juana Segura Argüelles twenty years later. Pesado was Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (es:Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Gobernación y Policía), Interior Minister (es: Ministerio del Interior), Foreign minister (es:Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores), and Governor of Veracruz (es: Gobernador de Veracruz). He joined the nineteenth-century literary society the Academia de Letrán. He was also a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and professor of philosophy. He published in El Radical and El Año Nuevo. He was editor of El Mosaico Mexicano, El Recreo de las familias, El Nuevo Año and La Cruz. References External links José Joaquín Pesado Academia Mexicana de la Lengua Los cancilleres de México a través de su historia Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores de México. Estudio sobre José Joaquín Pesado Poemas de José Joaquín Pesado Obras de Pesado, José Joaquín, 1801-1861 1801 births 1861 deaths Mexican writers Writers from Puebla Governors of Veracruz Members of the Mexican Academy of Language Mexican Secretaries of the Interior Mexican Secretaries of Foreign Affairs