Juan Martin de Veramendi (December 17, 1778–1833) was a Spanish (1778-1821, Mexican independence) and Mexican (1821–1833) politician who served as governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas from 1832 until 1833. Veramendi was also collector of foreign revenue (in Bexar in 1822–1823), alternate deputy of the Texas Provincial Depuration to the Mexican National Constituent Congress, alcalde of Bexar (1824, 1825 and 1828) and Vice Governor (in Coahuila y Tejas province on September 6, 1830). Personal life Veramendi was born on December 17, 1778, in San Antonio de Béxar, known as Béxar, which was then a part of Spanish Texas. He was the second son of Fernando Veramendi, a native of Pamplona, Spain, who had come to Béxar by 1775, and María Josefa Granados, a native of Béxar. Fernando was a merchant. He owned four tracts of irrigated land as well as a stone house on Soledad Street, "one of the more substantial homes" in the town. Fernando Veramendi was killed in an Indian attack in May 1783, leaving his property to be divided between his children, José Maria, Juan Martín, and Fernando Ramon . Another child, daughter María Josefa, was born soon after Fernando's death. Per the terms of his father's will, Juan Martín Veramendi and his brothers were under the oversight of Father Pedro Fuentes, who would see to their education, and Juan José de la Santa, who would oversee the property. His mother soon remarried, to Spaniard Juan Martin de Amondarain. By 1790, María Josefa Granados had died and Father Fuentes had left the area, leaving Amondarain to raise the children. In 1810, Juan Martín Veramendi married María Josefa Navarro, the sister of his good friend José Antonio Navarro. Their first child, Ursula, arrived in October 1811, and they had six other children together. Veramendi and his wife also raised their goddaughter, Juana Navarro, daughter of José Navarro and Concepción Cervantes. This couple's eldest daughter, Maria Ursula de Veramendi, was the wife of Texas revolutionary Jim Bowie. Career By 1801, Veramendi had taken sole ownership of the family home and had embarked on a career as a merchant. The 1804 census shows Veramendi living with one of his brothers, his sister, and a five-year-old slave girl. He was listed as a notary, which implied some education in crafting legal documents. Four years later, he was appointed the sindico-procurador for the ayuntamiento, meaning he had authority to