Manuel Z. Gómez

{{short description|Mexican politician}}

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| name = Manuel Z. Gómez

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| caption = Posthumous portrait by Eligio Fernández (1921)

| birth_name = José Manuel Zacarías Gómez Valdés

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1813|11|4|df=y}}

| birth_place = San Felipe de Linares, Nuevo León

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1871|7|27|1813|11|4|df=y}}

| death_place = Monterrey, Nuevo León

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| education = San Idelfonso College

| office1 = Governor of Nuevo León (interim)

| term_start1 = 1866

| term_end1 = 4 December 1867

| predecessor1 = Mariano Escobedo

| successor1 = Jerónimo Treviño

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José Manuel Zacarías Gómez Valdés (4 November 1813 – 27 July 1871) was a 19th-century Mexican lawyer and politician who served as interim governor of Nuevo León (1866–1867), senator, and congressman in the Chamber of Deputies representing the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.{{cite book|last=Arroyo Llano|first=Rodolfo|title=Manuel Z. Gomez: gobernador y comandante militar de Nuevo Leon durante la intervencion francesa : diario de campaña del Coronel Miguel Palacios, Comandante del Batallón 1o. de Nuevo León|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ZdVAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=4 October 2014|year=1976|publisher=Editorial Alfonso Reyes|location=Monterrey, Nuevo León|language=Spanish|page=243}}

As congressman, he celebrated the annexation of Coahuila by Nuevo León{{cite book|last1=Benavides|first1=Artemio|last2=Torres Estrada|first2=Pedro|title=La Constitución de 1857 y el noreste mexicano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vx3bJukm_qMC&pg=PA105|accessdate=4 October 2014|year=2007|publisher=Fondo Editorial de Nuevo León|location=Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-970-9715-47-7|page=105}} and during his administration, he was satirized by El cura de Tamajón, an ephemeral weekly publication edited by Jesús Flores and written mostly by Guillermo Prieto during his stay in Monterrey.{{cite book|last1=Curiel|first1=Guadalupe|last2=Castro|first2=Miguel Ángel|last3=Celis de la Cruz|first3=Martha|title=Publicaciones periódicas mexicanas del siglo XIX, 1856-1876|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQ9gyBF23ZgC&pg=PA243|accessdate=4 October 2014|year=2003|publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-970-32-0330-7|page=243}}

Aside from his political activities, Gómez also presided over Nuevo León's Supreme Tribunal of Justice in 1867.{{cite book|last=Gutiérrez Villarreal|first=Francisco Javier|title=Tribunal Supremo de Justicia de Nuevo León: Desde su instalación hasta nuestros días|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Y5r2xijV18C&pg=PA128|accessdate=4 October 2014|year=2013|publisher=Fondo Editorial de Nuevo León|location=Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-607-8266-13-5|page=128}}