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Prominent Personalities Of The Mexican Revolution 1910-1928

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Esteban Baca Calderón (1876-29.3.1957) -- b. at Santa María del Oro, Nayarit; Professor at the Tepic Superior School (Escuela Superior de Tepic); relocated to the Cananea mines, Sonora in 1904; founder (with Manuel Diéguez) of the Liberal Union of Humanity (Unión Liberal Humanidad); one of the leaders of the 1906 Cananea strike; arrested and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at San Juan de Ulúa; freed 1911 after Díaz's abdication; returned to Cananea, established the Liberal Union (with Manuel Diéguez); supported Diéguez in his successful campaign for municipal president of that city; joined the resistance to the February 1913 coup of General Victoriano Huerta; became a commander (along with Juan José Ríos and Pablo Quiroga) in the forces led by Diéguez; followed Diéguez in joining Álvaro Obregón's Northeastern Army Corps of the Sonoran state army; interim Governor of Colima 24 December 1914-6 January 1915 and 18 March-16 April 1917; deputy for Jalisco in the Constitutional Convention of 1917; drafted (with Pastor Rouaix) article 123 of the 1917 Constitution; promoted to Brigadier General 1917; president of the National Claims Commission; elected Senator from Jalisco in the National Congress; joined in the overthrow of President Carranza in 1920; Director General of the national Customs Department; chief of the purchasing department of the Army and national railroad system; interim Governor of Nayarit 22 February 1928-27 October 1929; d. 1957 in Mexico City.