Background
QUINTERO, Juan was born in Havana, Cuba, United States.
Diplomat lawyer state government official
QUINTERO, Juan was born in Havana, Cuba, United States.
Public school.
He lived in Mexico, where he was a farmer, before becoming a U.S. citizen in 1853. He was a Catholic and a lawyer. There is some evidence that he lived in New Orleans for a time before the Civil War began.
When the war began, he entered the service of the Confederate government. During the Civil War, Quintero managed delicate and involved diplomatic missions for the Confederacy with skill and success. In May 1861, President Davis sent him to the Vidaurri government in Mexico to try to obtain an agreement on the border security and an alliance with the Confederacy.
He was also sent to Monterrey as resident diplomat, but President Davis kept him from making an alliance with Mexico. Quintero broke the blockade to bring cotton from Texas to Mexico. In 1863, he protected the friendship with Vidaurri and kept President Juarez neutral on Confederate rights.
His relations with the Mexican government were most helpful to the Confederacy. He apparently also succeeded in keeping Mexican border bandits from attacking Confederate supply trains. After the war, Quintero had charge of a land office in Austin, Texas.
There is no record of his death.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.