Background
Francisco Pizarro was born in Mexico City on 24 January 1787 to Timoteo Antonio Pizarro López and Antonia San Martín Pérez, a Spanish couple from Alcántara, Extremadura, and Cádiz, respectively.
Francisco Pizarro was born in Mexico City on 24 January 1787 to Timoteo Antonio Pizarro López and Antonia San Martín Pérez, a Spanish couple from Alcántara, Extremadura, and Cádiz, respectively.
Previously, Pizarro served as Mexican consul to New Orleans. In 1833, as Mexican consul of New Orleans, Pizarro refused entry to blacks and other "people of color" to the then-Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas, claiming that they were slaves in disguise and inherently lazy and immoral. After the Texas Revolution, he negotiated a prisoner exchange with Stephen F. Austin in the winter of 1836.
In May 1837, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the United States by President Anastasio Bustamante.
As envoy, he negotiated the Convention for the adjustment of claims of citizens of the United States of America upon the Government of the Mexican Republic with John Forsyth in 1838. Shortly thereafter, Pizarro died while on duty on 9 February 1840, at the age of 53, in Washington, District of Columbia
In 1953, when Georgetown University cleared the cemetery for the construction of new buildings, his remains were transferred to Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The President of the United States, his cabinet, and members of the diplomatic corps were present at his Catholic funeral.