Lorenzo de Zavala was a 19th-century Mexican politician. He born in a Spanish colony, Tecoh, Yucatán on October 3, 1788. At the age of nineteen, he received a degree from the institute at Mérida, Yucatan. He was married that year and had 3 children down the road. Zavala organized and directed various newspapers. He drafted many articles encouraging democratic ideas and changes in the Spanish government. Zavala was sent to prison twice because of his political viewpoints. While in jail, he taught himself to study English. He also studied medical textbooks and was prepared to follow medicine simultaneous with his release being fluent in Spanish, French, and Latin.
Following his practice with the healing profession, Zavala started a political career that would serve more than 25 years. He continued to write articles about democracy. He traveled to Madrid to run with the Spanish government. In 1821, while he was back in Yucatán, he was selected as Deputy. He was elected as senator of Yucatán at the first Constitutional Congress and held office in January 1825.…show more content… He served as governor of the state of Mexico, Zavala managed to bring new settlers to Texas, growing to be a businessperson who promoted migration of the Texas colonies. Just when Vicente Ramon Guerrero became president, de Zavala shifted to the secretary of the treasury.
The transformation of the government of Mexico in 1830 forced Zavala to move out of the country. He traveled to New York, where he attempted to intrigue eastern capitalists to purchase land in his grant which permits him to settle 500 families which is now southeast Texas. On October 1830, in New York City he transferred his interests in the grants to the Galveston Bay Texas Land Company. He moved to Texas, where he lived with his friend, Stephen Fuller Austin for a short
