[1] He began his public life as a provincial ensign in 1810 and had reached the rank of captain lieutenant colonel when he took part in the Mexican War of Independence.

[3] On 26 January 1835, incumbent president Antonio López de Santa Anna attempted to step down, but congress did not immediately accept his resignation.

[9] Barragán died of typhus on 1 March 1836, just after resigning office on 27 February due to ill health, with Santa Anna again absent from the capital (this time fighting rebels in Texas).

Corro made patriotic appeals to aid the troops and save the president and laid out a plan for which the government could raise more funds.

[12] The government at this time had to deal with many foreign crises, most apparent of all the Texas Revolution, and threats that the United States would recognize Texan independence.

Due to rising tensions, Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza, the Mexican minister to the United States was summoned back to Mexico.

[13] The Corro administration was successful in getting the Holy See to recognize Mexican independence, under the condition that the anti-clerical laws, established in 1833 by president Valentin Gomez Farias, would be lifted.

[14] In the course of his presidency Corro would have three ministers of finance – Mangino, Alas and Cervantes – who all struggled to raise funds, and who all appealed the government to take out foreign loans.

[16] Partisan conflict on the municipal level resulted in a petition to the president to suspend the elections for the Ayuntamientos until the publication of the Siete Leyes, the new constitution that was being worked on.