{"record":{"aliases":[],"appointmentIds":["mexico-dc06d7056c0bfc"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/mx-jose-tomas-de-cuellar-4c26d2e34c/","countrySlug":"mexico","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/mx-jose-tomas-de-cuellar-4c26d2e34c/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["José Tomás de Cuéllar was a writer, artist, and diplomat whose literary name was Facundo. Educated in Mexico City, he attended the Military College and fought during the American invasion of 1847. He also studied painting, learned photography, and wrote for the theater and the press. In San Luis Potosí he helped publish La Ilustración Potosina and brought out El pecado del siglo.","His work at the Washington legation began in 1872 and continued through a decade in which he rose from an official to secretary and acted for the mission. In December 1877 he protested to William Evarts over American military incursions across the border. He argued that an attack on an established Lipan camp near Piedras Negras could not be justified as immediate pursuit of raiders, and warned that such operations risked a clash between the two armies. He grounded the protest in existing treaties and requested a peaceful adjustment.","After Washington he held senior posts in the Foreign Ministry, including commercial and American affairs work. His literary project La linterna mágica assembled novels and sketches of Mexican social life, eventually issued in a substantial collected series."],"id":"mexico:mx-jose-tomas-de-cuellar","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-4c26d2e34c1366b11682.html","name":"José Tomás de Cuéllar","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["cuellar-life"],["cuellar-life","cuellar-border"],["cuellar-life"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-4c26d2e34c1366b11682.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"4cbfb07ef30c61fb","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1975","id":"cuellar-life","locator":"1975 biographical essay","publisher":"Semblanzas de Académicos, Academia Mexicana, reproduced by Humanistas","title":"Antonio Acevedo Escobedo, José Tomás de Cuéllar","type":"reference","url":"https://humanistas.org.mx/Cuellar.htm"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1877-12-14","id":"cuellar-border","locator":"1878,document382,letter preceding military enclosures","publisher":"U.S. Department of State, FRUS","title":"Cuéllar to Evarts, 14 December 1877","type":"primary-record","url":"https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1878/d382"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-9fe6d5f27d546bc5f4ec","locator":"Official historical roster. Its stale “Actual” entry for Moctezuma is superseded by the current embassy. Blank dates remain unknown; appointment and credential dates are distinct.","publisher":"","title":"SRE Historical Diplomatic Archive — Mexican representatives to the United States","type":"Mission record","url":"https://portales.sre.gob.mx/acervo/images/Embajadores-2024/sedes-2024/1_25-Estados_Unidos.pdf"}],"topics":["literature","border security","protection of sovereignty","visual arts"]},"schemaVersion":1}