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Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo
1799May, 2

Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo

Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (b. 1740)
Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (Spanish, with variant name: Juan Vicente de Güemes Pacheco de Padilla y Horcasitas, segundo conde de Revillagigedo) (April 5, 1738 in Havana – May 2, 1799 in Madrid) was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain from October 17, 1789 to July 11, 1794. He is known as a great reformer and one of the finest administrators of the Spanish colonial era—perhaps the last able viceroy of New Spain.

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