page_title: José María Mata
hierarchical_section_title: José María Mata
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomb of Dr Jose Maria Mata in the Panteon Civil de Dolores cemetery in Mexico City.
context_page_description: José María Mata Reyes was a 19th-century liberal politician and diplomat from Mexico who served for two months as minister of Finance in the cabinet of Benito Juárez, three months as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Porfirio Díaz, as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States, as congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, and as municipal president of Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz.
  Aside from his political and diplomatic activities, Mata served as a militiaman during the Mexican–American War and as a general in the army commanded by Porfirio Díaz during the French intervention in Mexico.
context_section_description: José María Mata Reyes (13 November 1819 – 25 February 1895) was a 19th-century liberal politician and diplomat from Mexico who served for two months as minister of Finance in the cabinet of Benito Juárez (1860–1861), three months as minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Porfirio Díaz (1878), as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States (1859–1860), as congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, and as municipal president of Martínez de la Torre, Veracruz.
  Aside from his political and diplomatic activities, Mata served as a militiaman during the Mexican–American War and as a general in the army commanded by Porfirio Díaz during the French intervention in Mexico.
caption: Tomb of José María Mata at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons, Dolores Civil Cemetery
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