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SAUCEDO, JOSÉ ANTONIO (?-?). José Antonio Saucedo was a member of the ayuntamiento^qv of San Fernando de Béxar as early as 1806. In 1812 he and Erasmo Seguín,^qv as members of the ayuntamiento, wrote the code of rules for a school to be established in the villa. In 1823 Saucedo was acting as secretary of the ayuntamiento and signed the notices declaring Texas adherence to the Plan of Casa Mata. Saucedo served as president of the provincial deputation in 1824 and as such functioned as governor of Texas. With the establishment of the state of Coahuila and Texas^qv in August 1824, he became political chief at Bexar and in that capacity approved the regulations for and defined the boundaries of Stephen F. Austin's^qv colony. Saucedo was instrumental in suppressing the Fredonian Rebellion^qv in 1827 and late in that year was replaced as political chief by Ramón Músquiz.^qv

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Vito Alessio Robles, Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (Mexico City: Editorial Cultura, 1938; 2d ed., Mexico City: Editorial Porrúa, 1978). Ohland Morton, Terán and Texas: A Chapter in Texas Mexican Relations (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1948).

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