Manuel Payno

The recorded working language is Spanish. The field of work recorded is belletristic literature, journalism and politics. Works named in the authority record are El hombre de la situación. Work by Manuel Payno is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.

• Name — Manuel Payno • Born — 21 June 1810 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Viceroyalty of New Spain • Died — 5 November 1894 • Place of death — San Ángel, Mexico City, Mexico • Occupation — Politician, essayist, novelist, short-story writer • Genre — Poetry, costumbrism, picaresque, journalism • Notable Works — * The Bandits of Río Frio (1889–1891) • The Man of the Situation (1861)

His father was Manuel Payno Bustamante González, founder of Matamoros Customs, in northern Tamaulipas. Little is known about his mother, some sources cite her name as María Josefa Cruzado Pardo who belonged to prominent family from Puebla. However, some other sources cite her mother's last name as Flores. Payno entered the Matamoros Customs branch as meritorious, along with Guillermo Prieto. In 1840, he served as secretary to General Mariano Arista, and when he achieved a lieutenant colonel rank was chief of a section of the Ministry of War. Subsequently, he managed a tobacco shop.

In 1847, he fought against the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War, and he established the secret postal service between Mexico City and Veracruz. He was Minister of Finance during José Joaquín de Herrera's administration (1850–1851) and also during the government of Ignacio Comonfort.

Charged with involvement in the coup d'état headed by Félix Zuloaga – absent from the government of Ignacio Comonfort – he was prosecuted and removed from politics. Manuel Payno was also persecuted during the Second French Intervention in Mexico, and he ended up recognizing the government of Maximilian of Habsburg. Once the republic was restored, with Benito Juárez as president, Payno became a deputy.

Manuel Payno worked as a teacher and taught at the National Preparatory School created by Gabino Barreda. He was a professor at the School of Commerce, where he taught Political Economy. As a senator, in 1882, President Manuel González sent him as an agent to Paris. In 1886 he was appointed consul in Santander, Spain, and subsequently consul general in Spain, establishing his residence in Barcelona. In 1891 he returned to Mexico and in 1892 he was again elected senator, a position he held until his death, on 5 November 1894 in San Ángel, Mexico City. He wrote Tratado de la propiedad. Ensayo de un estudio del Derecho Romano y del Derecho Público y Constitucional en lo relativo a la propiedad. ("Treatise on property. Essay in the study of Roman Law and Public and Constitutional Law in relation to property").