for every thousand pesos in value which they had. Partisan conflict on the municipal level resulted in a petition to the president to suspend the elections for the Ayuntamientos until the publication of the Siete Leyes, the new constitution that was being worked on. After suppressing the revolt of Juan Alvarez in the south of the country, congress began focusing on this new, centralist constitution. The Siete Leyes were finally published on December 30, 1836. Elections were held in accordance with the new constitution, and the ex-president Anastasio Bustamante who had recently returned from Europe, succeeded in winning another term. Later Life Corro stepped down on April 19, 1837. retired to private life in Guadalajara. He died there in 1864, during the French Intervention in Mexico, and was interred in the main cemetery of the city, the Panteón de Belén. See also List of heads of state of Mexico References Further reading "Corro, José Justo", Enciclopedia de México, v. 4. Mexico City, 1996, . García Puron, Manuel, México y sus gobernantes, v. 2. Mexico City: Joaquín Porrúa, 1984. Orozco Linares, Fernando, Gobernantes de México. Mexico City: Panorama Editorial, 1985, . Santibáñez, Enrique, ''El Ejecutivo y su labor política. Estudios de historia nacional contemporénea. 1916. External links Presidents of Mexico 1794 births 1864 deaths 19th-century Mexican politicians 1830s in Mexico Politicians from Guadalajara, Jalisco Governors of Jalisco 19th-century Mexican lawyers