Romero Rubio

Manuel Romero Rubio (Mexico City, March 7, 1828 – Mexico City, October 3, 1895) was a Mexican politician and lawyer who participated in the governments of Benito Juárez, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada and Porfirio Díaz.

Education as a lawyer and the beginning of his political career

Manuel Romero Rubio began his education at the Conciliar Seminary in Mexico City, where he acquired knowledge of Latin grammar and philosophy. Later, at the Colegio de San Gregorio he began his studies in law. In there, he was recognized as one of the most distinguished students and became friends with Lerdo de Tejada, among other colleagues who later acquired highly relevant roles in the national political sphere.

At the Colegio de San Gregorio, due to his brilliant participation in the discussions of the Academy of Jurisprudence, Romero Rubio received various offers to occupy positions in the government; however, he did not accept these invitations, preferring to finish his studies.

The Colegio de San Gregorio –considered as a center of independent thought–, underwent government scrutiny and was closed briefly under the return of Santa Anna on October 20, 1853. For this reason, Manuel Romero Rubio and Ignacio Mariscal, among other students, became the main organizers of the Club Político el Águila, which emerged as a protest, and which was joined by several figures who later occupied high positions in Mexican politics.

The popularity of Lerdo de Tejada waned not only before figures like Romero Rubio, but before other political agents who criticized him harshly for not listening neither respecting the ideas of others.

National and international recognitions

Second Councilor of the Mexican Bar Association (1878) Receives the Bust of the Liberator granted by the Government of Venezuela (1888) Along with Ignacio Mariscal, he presides over the celebrations of the First Pan-American Conference, held in Mexico City (1889) Decorated with the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1889) Appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor (1889) Assumes the presidency of the Bar Association (Mexico, 1892) Receives Order of the Crown of Italy (1893) Appointed Benemérito of the State of Colima (Colima Congress, November 12, 1895). In 1999 the Romero Rubio station of the CDMX metro on line B was inaugurated, due to its proximity to the Romero Rubio neighborhood of the Venustiano Carranza borough.