Biography Of Ignacio López Rayón
Biographies / / July 04, 2021
Ignacio López Rayón He was born in 1773, he was the first-born of Andrés Mariano López Rayón Piña and María Josefa Rafaela López - Aguado y López - Bolaños. He was a student at the Colegio de San Ildefonso, where he obtained his law degree in 1706, but he did not last long practicing his profession, since his father was ill so he had to He returned to Valladolid now the city of Morelia and had to take charge of the businesses that his father left when he died, dedicating himself to agriculture, mining and he attended the post office of Tlalpajahua.
In 1810, he met María Ana Martínez de Rulfo and soon married her; in that same year but in the month of September, the battle for the independence of Mexico was unleashed, upon learning, Ignacio López RayónHe sympathizes with the cause, and instinctively, he encourages his friends, neighbors, and workers to support independence.
But with whom he had the first insurgent contact was with Antonio Fernández, since this character in his passage through Tlapajahua, caused great damage and material loss, then
As Viceroy Francisco Xavier Venegas learned that Ignacio López Rayón, actively participated with the insurgents, he sent a group of soldiers to capture him, but Lopez Rayon he finds out and manages to evade them, to unite and join forces with Miguel Hidalgo in the town of Maravatio, on that site, the priest Hidalgo appoints him as his official secretary.
When Hidalgo e Ignacio they manage to take the city of Guadalajara, Lopez Rayon he receives the appointment of Secretary of State and Office. And with that title, he signs next to Miguel Hidalgo, the document of "Band of Abolition of Slavery" on December 6, 1810.
After this event, he created the first newspaper of the insurgents called "El Despertador", Francisco Severo Maldonado being the one who was responsible for the edition.