Tomas O'Horan

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Tomás Antonio O'Horán y Argüello (1775-1848), born in what is today Guatemala, resident most of his life in Mérida, Yucatán in Mexico. He was married to Gertrudis Escudero.

He served from October 1823 to April 1825 as a member of the Second Triumvirate (ruling council) of the United Provinces of Central America, serving as Chairman every third month.

He served in the Mexican Senate representing Yucatán in 1835. Subsequently he was also a magistrate in Mérida.

One of his sons, Tomás O'Horán Escudero (1819-1867) became a general in the Mexican armed forces who fought against the French invasion in 1862, and was appointed Governor and Military Commander of the State of Mexico by Benito Juárez, but later served as Prefect of the Valley of Mexico under the French, and was shot by the forces of Benito Juárez in 1867 after they re-took Mexico City.

Another son, Augustín Jorge O'Horán Escudero (d.1884) was a medical doctor for whom the oldest hospital in Mérida is named.