Preceded by Margarita Maza Profession First Lady of Mexico Succeeded by Trinidad Gonzalez Name Juana Tapia | Nationality Mexican Role Jose Maria Iglesias\' wife Political party Liberal Died 1897, Mexico City, Mexico | |
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Full Name Juana Calderon Tapia Relations Jose Maria Calderon (father) and Josefa Tapia (mother) Spouse Jose Maria Iglesias (m. 1849–1891) Children Fernando Iglesias Calderon | ||
Juana Calderón y Tapia (1822–1897) was the wife of the Mexican lawyer, professor, journalist and politician José María Iglesias, who was president of México between 1876 and 1877.
Life
Juana Calderón Tapia was born in Puebla in 1822. She was the daughter of José María Tomás Ignacio Calderón Garcés (1780–1834), a military man who was Governor of Puebla on various occasions, and his wife María Josefa de la Luz Tapia Balbuena, originally from Maravatío and who was a sister of the godmother of Melchor Ocampo. She received a good education, which was unusual at the time. She was orphaned at a young age; subsequently, she lived with her maternal grandfather José Simón Tapia, captain of the Provisional Militia and of the Pátzcuaro regiment, in whose house she was taught how to write.
The future President of México, General Pedro María de Anaya, taught her French, which she subsequently learned to read, write, and translate. A very cultured woman, Calderón loved reading; she read books from México, France, and Spain, especially poetry. Calderón married José María Iglesias in May 1849 in Querétaro; the officiating priest at the wedding would soon become Bishop of Tulancingo. Juana focused entirely to his home and to take care to her four children, they had two more but they did not survive to adulthood:
His son Fernando Iglesias wrote "Doña Juana said that women form the character of men and not to undermine her husband always agreed with the decision to slaughter him." In her marriage, Calderón endured separations and dangers related to the political career of her husband, who barely spent months as interim President of México. He died in 1891, after which Calderón returned to private life, never going out or receiving visitors and living a modest life. The "woman of agreeable appearance," as she was sometimes described, died peacefully in her home in the year 1897.