Hispanic
Heritage:
Prominent
Personalities Of The Mexican
Revolution 1910-1928
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Juan M. Banderas (1872-10.2.1918) --
b. Sinaloa; assassinated in Mexico City 10 Feb 1918.
Francisco De La Barra [Francisco Léon De La Barra y Quijano]
(1863-1939) -- President of Mexico 25 May-25 Nov 1911; Governor of
Mexico (Estado de México) 1913
Juan Barragan [Juan Barragán Rodriguez] -- Governor of San Luis Potosí
Apr 1917-24 Apr 1918
Gustavo Baz
Lucio Blanco (1879-1922) -- shot after a
failed rebellion against Obregón 1922.
Aureliano Blanquet (1849-1919)
Ignacio Bonillas (1858-31.1.1944) -- Mayor
of Nogales, Sonora; Minister of Public Works and Communications; Ambassador to the United States Feb 1917;
candidate for president 1920.
Rafael Buelna [Rafael Buelna Tenorio] (23.5.1890-23.1.1924) -- Governor
of Nayarit May 1914-May 1915; supported the de la Huerta rebellion;
killed at
Morelia, Michoacán 23 Jan 1924.
Luis Bule
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Juan G. Cabral (3.4.1883-00.10.1946) -- b.
Piedras Negras, Sonora; attended the College of Sonora and the
University of Arizona; became a cashier at the mines of Cananea; participated in the
strike of 1906; joined Madero's revolution in January 1911 with Salvador
Alvarado, operating in
the vicinity of Agua Prieta; occupied Cananea and Naco in May 1911;
promoted to Colonel of Cavalry by Madero; commander of rural forces in
Sonora July 1911- February 1912; commander of Fiscal Gendarmerie Zone
III; after Huerta's coup in Feb 1913 was appointed chief of operations
North of the Sonoran provincial forces by acting governor Pesqueira; in
conjunction with Álvaro Obregón occupied Nogales, Cananea and Naco; head
of the Sonoran state military department; proposed the survey and
redistribution of land in Sonora June 1913; led his forces to Mexico
City and named garrison commander there in August 1914; Governor of
Colima 1914; Governor and military commander of Sonora September 1914;
split with the Constitutionalist movement and Venustiano Carranza at the
Convention of Aguascalientes and supported Provisional President Eulalio
Gutíerrez; went into exile in the United
States when Gutíerrez's government
disbanded; participated in anti-Carranza activities 1918-1919; returned
to Mexico August 1923; participated as a diplomat in government missions
to Panamá, Peru and Ecuador; Governor of the Federal District 1932;
undersecretary for Administration 1934; d. 1946.
Cabrera (?Alfonso Cabrera Lobato?) -- Governor of
Puebla 1917-1920
Rafael Cal y Mayor Murguía (16.6.1892-13.10.1942)
Plutarco Calles [Plutarco Elías Calles] (1877- 1945) --
Governor of Sonora 4 Aug 1915-1 Sep 1919; Minister of Industry
and Commerce 1919; Minister of the Army and Navy 1920; Minister of the Interior 1920-1924; President of Mexico 1 Dec
1924-30 Nov 1928
Eusebio Calzada
Emilio Campa
Leon J. Canova
Lazaro Cardenas [Lázaro Cárdenas del Río] (1895-1970) --
President of Mexico
Venustiano Carranza [Venustiano Carranza de la Garza]
(29.12.1859-21.5.1920) -- Governor of Coahuila 27 Mar-1 Aug 1911 and 22
Nov 1911-1914; President of Mexico 20 Aug 1917-21 May 1920; murdered 21 May 1920 at Tlaxcalantongo, Puebla.
Felipe Carrillo Puerto (8.11.1874-3.1.1924) --
b. at Motul, Yucatán; Governor of Yucatán 1922-1924; fought against the
de la Huertista uprising as an Obregón loyalist but was forced to flee;
captured at Holbox; executed at the Mérida
cemetery, Yucatán, on January 3, 1924, along with 12 other members of the
Cooperativista Party, by order of
General
Ricárdez Broca, the de la Huertista governor.
Antonio Caso
Briones Castillo Tapia
Guillermo Castillo Tapia
Manuel Chao (?-24.6.1924) -- Governor of
Chihuahua Jan-Mar 1914; supported the de la Huerta rebellion against
Álvaro Obregón; captured and executed June 24, 1924 at Ciudad Jiménez.
José Inés Chávez García
Calixto Contreras [Calixto Contreras Espinoza]
(13.10.1862-00.00.1916) b. Avila, Durango; worked as a miner; active in
Madero's revolution in 1910; became a commander of rural police in
Durango following the overthrow of Díaz;
fought against the rebellion of Pascual Orozco 1912; resisted the Huerta
coup in February 1913; attacked Durango in April 1913 but was repulsed;
joined forces with Tómas Urbina, Domingo Arrieta and his brothers, and
took Durango in June 1913; under Urbina, became a general in Francisco
Villa's Division of the North; participated in battles at Torreón, Gómez
Palacio and Lerdo; Villista delegate to the Convention of
Aguascalientes; in the forefront of Villa's columns during the
occupation of Guadalajara; defeated, along with Rodolfo Fierro, by
Constitutionalist Generals Manuel M. Diéguez and Francisco Murguía in
January 1915; fought in the battles of Celaya and Trinidad in April-June
of 1915; died of wounds received in the battle of La labor de Guadalupe
near Cuencamé, Durango in 1916.
Ramón Contreras
Miguel Covarrubias -- Mexican Foreign
Minister Jun-1 Dec 1920
Juan Cruz
Adolfo Cuarón
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Daniel Delgado
Félix Díaz (1868-1945)
Porfirio Díaz
Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama
(23.1.1880-14.3.1967)
Manuel Dieguez [Manuel Macario Diéguez Lara]
(10.3.1874-21.4.1924) -- Governor of Jalisco 1914 and 1915-1917;
supported the de la Huerta rebellion against Álvaro Obregón; captured
and executed at Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, on April 21, 1924.
Sabino Domínguez
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Gustavo Elizondo
Pablo Escandón y Barrón
Antonio de Escandón
Manuel de Escandón
Mariano Escobedo
Francisco Escudero (1876-1928)
Martin Espinosa
Gustavo Espinosa Mireles
Roque Estrada
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Isidro Fabela
Justino Fernández
Nicolás Fernández
Rodolfo Fierro (1880 or 1885-13.10.1915) --
born at El Charay, Sinaloa or near Fuentes, Sinaloa; became a railroad
worker; joined Villa's forces in the fighting against the Orozco
uprising in 1912; died trying to cross a swollen stream near Nuevo Casa
Grandes on October 13th, 1915.
Ambrosio Figueroa [Ambrosio Figueroa Mata] -- Governor of Morelos
1911-1912
Rómulo Figueroa [Rómulo Figueroa Mata]
(6.7.1863-26.11.1945) -- b. at ranchería El Reparo, near Quetzalapa,
Guerrero; regidor of Huitzuco 1898; lower court judge 1902; síndico del
ayuntamiento 1909; took up arms in support of Madero against the Díaz
regime 1911; commander of the rural police corps (Cuerpo
Rurales) in Guerrero August 1911; fought against zapatista rebels in
Morelos; joined the Constitutionalist revolt against the coup of General
Victoriano Huerta in February 1913; fought in Guerrero, México and
Michoacán; rose to brigade commander; forces incorporated into the 2nd
Division of the Northeast; fought against Villa in the Bajío district;
served as Governor and military commander of Zacatecas
1915-1916; defeated by Villa's forces 1917; supported Álvaro Obregón in
the revolution of 1920 which overthrew Carranza's government; named
commander of military operations in Guerrero; joined the de la Huerta
uprising against Obregón in 1923-1924; was defeated, surrendered, and
sentenced to prison; later released and retired to Huitzuco, Guerrero;
d. 1945.
Ricardo Flores Magón (1874-1922) -- died in
Leavenworth penitentiary, Kansas 21 Nov 1922.
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Guillermo García Aragón
Ángel García Peña
Sóstenes Garza
Eulogio Gillow
Federico Gamboa Iglesias (1864-1939)
José Gómez Morentín
Abraham Gonzalez [Abraham González Casavantes] (1864-1913) --
Governor of Chihuahua Oct-Dec 1910; 10 Jun-Oct 1911; 13 Feb 1912-Mar
1913
Pablo Gonzalez [Pablo González Garza] (1879-1950) -- Governor
of San Luis Potosí Jul 1914
Roque González Garza (23.3.1885-12.11.1962)
-- Provisional President of Mexico 16 Jan-10 Jun 1915
Jesús M. Guajardo
Alfonso Guerrero
Eulalio Gutiérrez (1880-1939) -- Provisional
President of Mexico 3 Nov 1914-16 Jan 1915
Lázaro Gutiérrez de Lara
Martín Luis Guzmán
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Eduardo Hay (1877-1941) -- Foreign Minister
of Mexico 17 Jun 1935-30 Nov 1940
Gabriel Hernández
Manuel Herrera Ortiz
Rodolfo Herrero
Benjamín G. Hill (1874-1920) -- Governor of
Sonora 13 Feb-4 Aug 1915; Carrancista military commander in central
Mexico 16 Apr 1916-30 Apr 1917; Mexican Minister of the Army and Navy
1-14 Dec 1920; died under suspicious circumstances (suspected poisoning)
in Mexico City 14 Dec 1920.
Adolfo de la Huerta (1881-1955) -- Governor
of Sonora 1 Sep 1919-1 Sep 1923; Prime Minister of Mexico 24 May-1 Dec
1920; Mexican Minister of Finance to 1923; led an unsuccessful revolt in
Dec 1923-March 1924 against the nomination of Plutarcho Elías Calles for
president; went into exile in the US 1924
Victoriano Huerta [Victoriano Huerta Márquez] (1850-1916)
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Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
José María Iglesias
Ramón F. Iturbe [Ramón Fuentes Iturbe]
(7.11.1889-27.10.1970) -- b. Mazatlán, Sinaloa; moved to
Culiacán and worked in various commercial
establishments; active in the anti-reelection movement; joined
Madero's revolution against the Díaz regime
but was arrested in Culiacán at the beginning of the revolution in
November1910; escaped with Juan M. Banderas and fled into the mountains;
raised a force of 100 men and began fighting in Durango in January 1911;
promoted to brigadier general May 22, 1911; named commander of the rural
forces of Sinaloa (Fuerzas Rurales de Sinaloa) August 8, 1911;
Inspector General of rural forces in Sinaloa; commander of the 54th
Rural Police Corps (Jefe del 54o. Cuerpo Rural); fought against
the rebellion of Pascual Orozco in Chihuahua; went to the United States
at the beginning of 1913 to study engineering; returned to Mexico
following the coup of General Victoriano Huerta in February 1913 and
joined the forces of Álvaro Obregón at Nogales, Sonora; named chief of
Constitutionalist military operations in Sinaloa September 16, 1913;
became chief of the Sinaloa Brigade June 1914; delegate to the
Convention of Aguascalientes; commander of the 3rd Division of the
Northeast November 1914-29 August 1915; fought against Villista forces
commanded by Rafael Buelna Tenorio; chief of military operations in
Jalisco and Colima September 1915; served in various diplomatic missions
to Japan and Europe; served as Governor of Sinaloa 29 June
1917-20 April 1919; supported Obregón's
overthrow of Carranza in 1920; participated in the Escobar rebellion of
1929; fled abroad after the failure of that rebellion; amnestied and
returned to Mexico in July 1933; promoted to General of Division 1937 by
President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río; elected Congressional deputy from
Mazatlán; served as Ambassador to Japan 1941; interned in a Japanese
prison in Tokyo after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941; later
released; died in the Central Military Hospital at Mexico City
1970 of heart failure.
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Heriberto Jara [Heriberto Jara Corona]
(1879-1968) -- Governor of the Federal District 1914 (2 months);
Governor of Veracruz 1915?-18 Oct 1916 and 1 Dec 1924-1927; Governor of
Tabasco 1918-1919
José Jaurrieta
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Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos
Pedro Lascurain [Pedro Lascuráin Paredes] (1858-1952)
Francisco Leyva -- Governor of Morelos 1911
José Limantour
José López Portillo y Rojas
Ramón López Velarde
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Pablo Macedo
José Natividad Macías
Francisco Madero Jr. [Francisco I. Madero González] (-1913)
-- President of Mexico; murdered in Mexico City 22 Feb 1913.
Francisco I. Madero Sr.
Gustavo Madero [Gustavo Madero González] (1875-1913)
Raul Madero [Raúl Madero González] (1888-1982)
Gildardo Magaña (1891-1939) -- Governor of
the Federal District 11 Mar-11 Jul 1915; Governor of Michoacán Sep
1936-Dec 1939
Octavio Magaña Cerda
Francisco de P. Mariel -- military commander
of the Federal District 1915
Abraham Martínez
Eugenio Martínez
Paulino Martínez
(?-1914)
Salvador Martínez Alomía
Fortunato Maycotte -- Executed after capture
in the de la Huerta rebellion 14 May 1924.
Jose Maytorena [José María Maytorena Tapia] (1867-1948) --
Governor of Sonora Sep 1911-26 Feb 1913
Ricardo Michel
Andrés Molina Enríquez
Otilio Montana [Otilio Eduardo Montaña Sánchez] (13.12.1877-17.5.1917) --
executed for treason by zapatista forces 17 May 1917.
Ignacio Montes de Oca
Luis Napoléon Morones
Francisco Mugica [Francisco José Múgica Velázquez] (1884-1954)
-- Governor of Michoacán 1920
Francisco Murguía (1873-1922) -- executed as
a Carrancista loyalist 1922.
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Pánfilo Natera
Navarro
Rubio Navarrete
Felipe Neri
José Nieto
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Genovevo de la O (1876-1952) -- Governor of
Morelos 1914-1915
Alvaro Obregon [Álvaro Obregón Salido] (19.2.1880-7.7.1928) --
President of Mexico 1 Dec 1920-30 Nov 1924; assassinated 17 Jul 1928
Ornelas
Pascual Orozco (1882-00.8.1915)
Toribio Ortega
Pascual Ortíz Rubio - President of Mexico 5
Feb 1930-3 Sep 1932
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Carlos Pacheco
Francisco V. Pacheco
Manuel Palafox
Félix Palavicini
Alberto J. Pani -- Mexican Foreign Minister
Jan 1921-5 Sept 1923
Ignacio Pesquiera
José María Pino Suárez (1869-1913) --
Governor of Yucatán 5 Jun-8 Aug and 27 Sept-21 Nov 1911; Vice-President
of Mexico; murdered in Mexico City 22 Feb 1913.
Emilio Portes Gil -- President of Mexico 1
Dec 1928-4 Feb 1930; Mexican Foreign Minister 1 Dec 1934-Jun 1935
Pablo Prida
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Rafael Quintero
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Emilio Rabasa
José María Rangel
Bernardo Reyes (20.8.1850-9.2.1913) - Governor of
Nuevo Leon; killed leading an attempted coup against the Madero
government in Mexico City 3 Feb 1913.
Rafael Reyes Spíndola
Ernesto Ríos
Vicente Riva Palacios
Librado Rivera (17.8.1868-1.5.1932)
Cosío Robelo
Amelia Robles
Carmen Robles
Gabriel Robles Domínguez
Juvencio Robles -- Governor of Morelos 1913
Manuel Robles
Serafín Robles
José Rodríguez
Epigmenio Rodríguez
Matías Romero
Manuel Romero Rubio
Pastor Rouaix [Pastor Rouaix Mendez] (1874-1950) -- Engineer
and topographer; Governor of Durango 4 Jul 1913-25 Aug 1914 and 11 Sept
1931-Sept 1932
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Aaron Sáenz -- Mexican Foreign Minister Jan
1921 and 26 Sept 1923-30 Nov 1924
Amador Salazar
José Inéz Salazar
Rosendo Salazar
Miguel Sánchez
Refugio Sánchez
Juan Sánchez Azcona -- Mexican Foreign
Minister May-Jun 1920
Juan Sarabia Díaz
(24.6.1882-28.10.1920)
Aquiles Serdán -- Mexican revolutionary and
partisan of Francisco Madero.
Francisco R. Serrano (16.8.1889-3.10.1927)
-- executed 3 Oct 1927, along with Carlos A. Vidal, Miguel A. Peralta,
Daniel Peralta, Rafael Martínez de Escobar, Otilio González, Carlos V.
Araiza, Alonso Capetillo, Augusto Peña, Antonio Jáuregui, Ernesto
Noriega Méndez, Octavio Almada, José Villa Arce and Enrique Monteverde,
for allegedly plotting against the government in an effort to prevent
the re-election of Alvaro Obregon.
Martiniano Servín
Justo Sierra
Manuel Silva
Francisco Somellera
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Tavares
Luis Terrazas [José Luis Gonzaga Jesús Daniel
Terrazas Fuentes] (20.7.1829-18.6.1923) -- studied at a seminary in
Chihuahua and at that state's Scientific and Literary Institute (Instituto
Científico y Literario); participated in fighting against Apache
Indian incursions on the Mexican frontier; promoted to colonel of the
National Guard 1858; sided with the Liberal Party in the War of the
Reform; refused to collaborate with the French, who offered him the
position of Prefect of Chihuahua during the War of the Intervention;
Governor of Chihuahua 1858-Jun 1864, 1-14 Jul 1865, Nov 1865-Jan 1867,
Nov 1867- 4 Oct 1873, 26 Aug 1879-3 Apr 1884, May-18 Aug 1903; went into
exile during the Revolution; returned to Mexico and died there in 1923.
Jacinto B. Treviño [Jacinto B. Treviño González]
Miguel Trillo
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Tómas Urbina
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides
(21.6.1891-6.4.1969)
Urueta
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Ignacio Luis Vallarta
José Vasconcelos
Vázquez Gómez
Francisco Vázquez Gómez
José María Velasco
Benjamín Villa
Francisco "Pancho" Villa [Doroteo Arango
Arámbula] (5.6.1878-20.7.1923) -- murdered at Parral 20 Jul 1923.
Lauro Villar (1849-1923)
Antonio I. Villareal
Felícitas Villareal
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Emiliano Zapata [Emiliano Zapata Salazar] (8.8.1879-10.4.1919)
-- assassinated at Chinameca 10 April 1919.
Eufemio Zapata
Benigno Zenteno
Rafael Zubarán Capmany
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