Biography of Francisco i. Madero

(30/10/1873 - 1913/02/22)

Francisco Ignacio Madero
Mexican politician and revolutionary

He was born on October 30, 1873 in the Hacienda del Rosario, Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila.
Eldest son of Francisco Madero and Mercedes González.
He learned the first letters with particular tutorial, he subsequently entered the Jesuit College of San Juan Nepomuceno, in Saltillo. In 1886, he studied at the Saint Mary's College, United States. Subsequently, he attended the Liceo de Versailles and school of high studies trade, in Paris. Later, he continued his studies at the Department of Agriculture of the University of California.
Dedicated to farming in his hometown, he imposed new farming systems. He married Sarah Pérez in 1903. He founded the commercial school of San Pedro and in 1904 began his political career. He was appointed President of the democratic Club in Coahuila, and wrote in the newspaper the Democrat political articles.
While he was born in a family of landowners, he defended the political and agrarian reform. Critical of the dictatorial regime of President Porfirio Díaz, published the presidential succession in 1910, which urged the voters so that no event of his re-election. The book was banned, but became you the main political opponent of the President. He was imprisoned during the campaign for the presidential elections of 1910, after being accused of inciting a rebellion and Porfirio Díaz won the victory.
It is released in November 1910 and fled to Texas, where began hostilities against Diaz, which meant the beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
He returned to Mexico and took part in a military campaign that culminated in the taking of Ciudad Juarez in May 1911. After the resignation of Díaz, became the maximum candidate to the Presidency and elections in November 1911 he was elected President of Mexico.
He took office as President on November 6, 1911.
It was not able to do any of the political and social reforms he had promised because of opposition from some of his supporters and their own administrative limitations. He survived several insurrections, but in 1912 erupted rebellions in the North and in the South of Mexico led by Pascual Orozco and Emiliano Zapata; in February 1913, the Commander in Chief of the army general Victoriano Huerta, ordered his imprisonment and forced him to resign.
A few days later, on February 22, 1913, Madero was killed along with the Vice-President José María Pino Suárez in City of Mexico, when he was being transferred to the prison of Lecumberri.