Pedro Lascuráin Pedro Lascuráin Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes (8 May 1856 – 21 July 1952) was a Mexican politician who served as the 34th President of Mexico for less than one hour on February 19, 1913, the shortest presidency in the history of the world. He had earlier served as Mexico's foreign secretary for two terms and was the director of a small law school in Mexico City for sixteen years. Lascuráin was born in Mexico City in 1856. He was the son of Francisco Lascuráin Icaza and Ana Paredes Cortés. Lascuráin received a law degree
Pedro de Agurto an outstanding and brilliant performance in his studies that in 1563, he succeeded Fray Alfonso de Vera Cruz, one of the first founders of a university in Mexico, in the Chair of "Prima Escritura" (study of the Sacred Scriptures). His intellectual adaptness led him to professorship of Arts and Theology. In this capacity he held for many years, Fray Pedro received the honorific title as Master of Sacred Theology. He also served as a councilor and Prior of the Augustinian Convent in Mexico. In 1584, he was elected as Prior Provincial and Superior of the Augustinians in Mexico. Described as