Anastasio Bustamante in the context of Melchor Múzquiz

The Centralist Republic of Mexico (Spanish: República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic, officially the Mexican Republic (Spanish: República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes (lit. 'seven laws') after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic. It would ultimately last until 1846, when the Constitution of 1824 was restored at the beginning of the Mexican–American War.

Two presidents would predominate throughout this era: Santa Anna and Anastasio Bustamante.

Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (Spanish: [biˈsente raˈmoŋ ɡeˈreɾo]; baptized 10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831) was a Mexican military officer from 1810–1821 and a statesman who became the nation's second president in 1829. He was one of the leading generals who fought against Spain during the Mexican War of Independence. According to historian Theodore G. Vincent, Vicente Guerrero lived alongside indigenous people in Tlaltelulco and had the ability to speak Spanish and the languages of the Indigenous.

During his presidency, he abolished slavery in Mexico. Guerrero was deposed in a rebellion by his vice-president, Anastasio Bustamante.

Bases Orgánicas (English: Organic Bases) was the name given to the constitution of Mexico which came into effect in 1843. It was the second and final constitution attempted during the Centralist Republic of Mexico, after the Siete Leyes.

National instability had resulted in a coup which overthrew the presidency of Anastasio Bustamante at the end of 1841. The coup plotters led by Santa Anna had proclaimed the need for a new constitution, and held elections for a new constitutional congress. The newly elected congress however was not to the government's liking and it was subsequently dissolved in a self-coup at the end of 1842. A new government appointed a Council (Junta) of Notables that produced a new constitution on 12 June 1843.

Federal elections were held in Mexico on 1 September 1828. The president was indirectly elected by state legislatures, with winner of the presidential election serving a four-year term, while the runner-up would become vice president.

Manuel Gómez Pedraza was elected president. However, two weeks later Antonio López de Santa Anna rose in rebellion against the election and at the end of November the rebels entered Mexico City. Gómez Pedraza abandoned his position and left the country. The Congress of the Union, pressured by the adherents of Guerrero, annulled the elections on 12 January and designated Vicente Guerrero as President and Anastasio Bustamante as vice president, with their terms to start on 1 April 1829. This arrangement proved unsustainable and on 4 December 1829 Bustamante rebelled against Guerrero, taking the presidency from 1 January 1830. A further rebellion in 1832 led to an agreement by which Gómez Pedraza would return to the presidency until the elections of 1833 which Santa Anna (more interested in the title than the position) would go on to win.

José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga (7 January 1797 – 7 September 1849) was a Mexican conservative general who served as president of Mexico between December 1845 and July 1846. He assumed office through a coup against the liberal administration led by José Joaquín de Herrera. He was the grandfather of 38th Mexican President Pedro Lascuráin Paredes.

During the Centralist Republic of Mexico he led three successful coups against the Mexican government. In 1842, he led a movement to overthrow the presidency of Anastasio Bustamante over a financial crisis, which led to the drafting of a new constitution known as the Bases Orgánicas, promulgated on 14 June 1843. In 1844, he proclaimed a coup against Antonio López de Santa Anna which was joined by congress in protest against Santa Anna's unconstitutional acts. In 1845, he led a coup against President José Joaquín de Herrera over his intention to recognize Texan independence, where he assumed the presidency.

José Manuel Rafael Simeón de Mier y Terán (February 18, 1789 — July 3, 1832), generally known as Manuel de Mier y Terán, was a noted military and political figure during the Mexican War of Independence and during the era of the First Republic serving in the Mexican congress and as Minister of War. He made an inspection of Texas on behalf of the government and was placed in charge of securing the area after the Mexican government banned further American immigration in 1830.

He was at one point considered a potential candidate for the Mexican presidency. However, health problems and despair over the nation's political situation drove him to commit suicide in 1832 during a revolution against the government of Anastasio Bustamante.

Jiquilpan (Spanish: [xiˈkilpan] ; also spelled Xiuquilpan, Xiquilpan, Xiquilpa, based on a Náhuatl word for "place of tint plants") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its municipal seat is Jiquilpan de Juárez.

Jiquilpan is the birthplace of two presidents of the republic: Anastasio Bustamante, who served as President on three occasions in the mid-19th century; and also of one of the most popular presidents of Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas.