Juan Valdez was lieutenant general

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 and alcalde

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 of the presidio

Presidio

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 and villa of Bexar in 1714 and 1716.

Biography

Juan Valdez was elected governor of Texas

Texas

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 on two occasions: the first was in 1714 and the second in 1716. He was mayor of the presidio of villa of Bexar (San Antonio, Texas) in 1720. During his mayoralty in Bexar, he established a mission in a place of San Jose and San Miguel de Aguayo

San Miguel de Aguayo, Texas

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, under orders of the viceroy

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 of New Spain

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, even after Father Antonio de Olivares

Antonio de Olivares

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filed a petition asking that the mission was not done in Zacatecas already planned.