Andrés Quintana Roo

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Andrés Quintana Roo (November 30, 1787 – April 15, 1851) was born in Mérida, Yucatán. He was a Mexican liberal politician, lawyer and journalist who presided over the National Constitutional Assembly of 1813–14 that drafted the (failed) Constitution of Apatzingán and the later Constitutional Congress that drafted the 1824 Constitution.

He served as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs under Emperor Agustín de Iturbide from 1822 to 1823. He also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court (1824–27) and as a federal deputy representing the state of México.

His remains lie next to those of his wife, Leona Vicario, in the mausoleum of the Column of Independence in Mexico City. The Mexican state of Quintana Roo was named after him.

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