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|JUAN NEPOMUCENO ALMONTE |
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|(1803-1869)|
| [pic] |Son of Fray José María Teclo Morelos y Pavón |
| |Secretary-Advisor to gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna |
| |Bustamante's Minister of War|
| |Veteran of the Alamo & San Jacinto |
| |Ambassador to USA & Great Britain |
| |Maximilian's Executive Council member|

Almonte was a natural son of mestizo parish priest, guerilla leader and revolutionary for separation of Mexico from Spain, don José María Teclo Morelos y Pavon and an indian woman Brigida, born in Necupétaro, Michoacán on 15 May 1803.
Historian Foote conjectured that the origin of the surname Almonte was as follows:
"Morelos was at the head of histroops one day, when an infant, whose birth was thus unceremoniously made known to him, was brought into his sight by the mother. 'Almonte, Almonte,' ... to the mountain with the brat' and Almonte was thenceforth his name."

Morelos is said to have sent young Almonte to be educated in America with Republican emissaries don Manuel de Herrera and Pedro Ellis Beanin July along with 30,000 pesos for purchase of support for the revolution to the United States. Father Morelos was captured, defrocked and shot as a traitor in December 1815 after which Almonte's education was ended prematurely and he became a clerk in a hardware store in New Orleans. Almonte allied with Vicente Guerrero Saldaña at the beginning of the Mexicanrevolution and was in Nacogdoches when Mexican independence was won in 1821 at which time he returned to Mexico with Bernardo Gutierrez who was appointed Governor of Tamaulipas.  He was on the staff of José Félix Trespalacios in Texas.  In 1824 he was in the Mexican legation to Britain and in 1824 credited with being instrumental in finalizing independent Mexico'sfirst commercial agreement with England or any foreign power.

In 1830 Congressman Almonte was censured and forced into hiding.  As an editor of a newspaper called El Atleta, he criticized president Anastasio Bustamante for permitting foreign intervention in Mexico.  He allied with gen. Antonio María Severino López de Santa Anna Pérez y Lebrón and in 1834he was sent by him to Texas to prepare a Statistical Report on the status of the territory, and most likely to assess the colonists loyalty to Mexico and the feelings toward independence. Most of the three months he was with Colonel Bean, the old friend of his father Dn. José María Teclo Morelos y Pavón. Almonte filed a favorable report concerning theTexas colonists, their economic development and future contribution to the Mexican Republic. It was believed to be influenced by Col. Bean who Almonte complimented in a later letter by stating ..."only his [Bean's] good offices and prestige.......conserved order in this part of our territory. "Although brief and relatively superficial, the report is one of the...