Francisco I. Madero
✓ Source-basedfallingMexican revolutionary leader and president (1873-1913)
in MexicoHe wrote a book calling for democracy, ran against a dictator, lost a rigged election, escaped jail, and lit the fuse on the Mexican Revolution - only to be murdered two years into his own presidency by the generals he'd kept in power.
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Hacienda del Rosario in Parras, birthplace of President Madero![Francisco Madero Hernández [es] and Thomas Edison](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Mr._Francisco_Madero_Hernandez_Sr._and_Thomas_Edison_in_front_of_the_Building_5_entrance_at_Edison%27s_West_Orange_Laboratory._%28eea201b06e1b4f57af2a2a5121e86e2a%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg)
Francisco Madero Hernández [es] and Thomas Edison
Francisco Madero Hernández with half-brother Ernesto Madero Farías, Secretary of Finance, Leonor Olivares Tapia (Mrs. Ernesto Madero), and niece Leonor Madero Olivares.
École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris, where Madero and his brother studied business.
Francisco I. Madero with his wife, Sara Pérez Romero.
Photo of Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915) that accompanied the Creelman interview in Pearson's Magazine (1908).
"Manifestación antireeleccionista" by José Guadalupe Posada.In their orbit 8
Activists from Mexico 6
About this person
Francisco Ignacio Madero González was born into one of Mexico's wealthiest families on 30 October 1873 and studied business in Paris, but returned home an advocate for social justice. His 1908 book The Presidential Succession in 1910 urged voters to block the reelection of Porfirio Díaz, whose regime had grown authoritarian. Madero challenged Díaz in 1910, was arrested, then escaped to the United States and issued the Plan of San Luis Potosí, igniting revolution. Aided by Pancho Villa and Pascual Orozco - who disobeyed his orders and captured Ciudad Juárez - Madero forced Díaz into exile in May 1911. Elected president that November in a landslide, he retained the old Federal Army and dismissed the fighters who'd won the war, a choice that fractured his coalition: Emiliano Zapata and Orozco both rose against him. On 22 February 1913, conservative generals backed by the United States staged a coup during the Ten Tragic Days, and Madero and his vice president were captured and assassinated.
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