Máximo Jerez Tellería (8 June 1818 inLeón, Nicaragua – 12 August 1881 inWashington, D.C., USA) was a 19th-centuryNicaraguanpolitician,lawyer andmilitary leader. He is considered to be one of the greatestLiberal political thinkers in Nicaraguan history. He was a leader of the movement towards Central American unity.[1][2]
Together withFrancisco Castellón Sanabria, he participated in bringingWilliam Walker'sfilibusters to Nicaragua and on 31 October 1855 was designated Minister of Foreign Relations in Walker's provisional government, led officially byPatricio Rivas. He ran for the presidency in 1856, but no candidate obtained an absolute majority. By Walker's decision, provisional President Rivas summoned new elections on 10 March 1856, but countermanded the decree on 14 March, and broke relations with Walker.
On 23 January 1857 Jerez formed a dual Junta government with the ConservativeTomás Martínez and they acted jointly as Presidents of Nicaragua, from 24 June 1857 to 19 October or 15 November 1857.[3] In his subsequent career as Minister Plenipotentiary of Nicaragua toCosta Rica, he signed on 15 April 1858, theCañas–Jerez Treaty that defined the boundaries between the two countries.[citation needed]
In 1876 he organized fromEl Salvador an expedition to overthrow the provisional government ofPedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro, but failed.[citation needed]
In the city of León, there is a statue in his honor.[citation needed]
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