Secretary Miguel Montañez.
Miguel Montañez served as Secretary for Indian Affairs in the Cabinet of Mexican President Andrew Jackson.
Montañez was the leader of the Moralistas, an organization in Mexico City that was strongly opposed to the Jeffersonians. (This organization should not be confused with the later Mexicano revolutionary movement that was also called the Moralistas.) After Jackson's inauguration on 5 September 1821, he surprised supporters and opponents alike by offering Montañez a position in his Cabinet. Montañez in turn surprised and disappointed his followers by accepting.
Montañez accompanied Jackson on his grand tour of the U.S.M. from April 1823 to February 1824. In his capacity as Secretary for Indian Affairs, Montañez traveled with Jackson to the Indian-dominated areas of Mexico del Norte and Arizona, where Jackson was able to make a favorable impression on tribal leaders and even persuade them to act as auxiliaries to the Mexican Army.
Jackson's second term as President from 1827 to 1833 was marred by at least a dozen major uprisings among the Negro slaves of Jefferson, which were all crushed swiftly and brutally. Jackson complained to Montañez that the uprisings were the work of abolitionist infiltrators from the Southern Confederation. Jackson sent two strongly worded notes of protest to Governor John Calhoun (ironically, given Calhoun's own strong support for slavery), and in 1832 Jackson nearly went to war with the S.C. over the allegations.
Sobel persistently misspells Montañez's name as Montez.