José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra was a Spanish fighter against indigenous people in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Tamaulipas to the Guadalupe River in the modern-day U.S. state of Texas.
- Occupation
- politician, military personnel
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Born
- March 19, 1700
- Died
- 1770, September 10, 1770