Nationality Mexican Spouse(s) Guadalupe Norma | Name Francisco Gomez | |
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President Francisco Leon de la Barra Born 23 September 1860
Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico ( 1860-09-23 ) Died 16 August 1933(1933-08-16) (aged 72)
Mexico City, Mexico Alma mater National School of Medicine (1889) Profession Physician and politician | ||
Francisco Vázquez Gómez 23sep 16ago
Francisco Vázquez Gómez (23 September 1860 – 16 August 1933) served as personal physician to Mexican president Porfirio Díaz, as Minister of Public Instruction to President Francisco León de la Barra and as a running mate to Francisco I. Madero during the 1910 presidential elections. Prior to this Vázquez Gómez had been a supporter of Bernardo Reyes, another presidential hopeful with strong ties to Díaz' regime.
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Vázquez Gómez was born in Tula, Tamaulipas, into a rich Amerindian family. He studied Medicine in Mexico City and worked as a physician in Xalapa before returning to serve as the personal physician to long-time serving President Díaz. In 1909, he joined his brother Emilio in the anti-reelectionist movement but refused to join a national call to arms after the government illegally imprisoned former presidential candidate Francisco I. Madero, with whom he campaigned on a narrow, pro free-market and democratic government.
After a short voluntary exile in El Paso, Texas, he returned to Mexico to assume the Ministry of Public Instruction in the presidential cabinet of Francisco León de la Barra (26 May - 5 November 1911).
