Francisco José Madero González (October 16, 1930 – February 21, 2013) was a Mexican

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, accountant, and member of the

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(PRI). Madero served as the 54th Municipal President, or Mayor, of

Torreón Torreón () is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2021, the city's population was 735,340. The metropolitan population as of 2015 was 1,497,734, making it the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in ...

from 1976 to 1978 and the

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of the Mexican state of Coahuila in 1981.

Biography

Personal life

Madero was born in

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, in the United States on October 16, 1930, and raised in

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, Coahuila. He was the seventh child of Mexican General Raúl Madero and Dora González Sada. His parents had fled to the United States after the Mexican Revolution. His paternal uncle,

Francisco I. Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'etat in February 1 ...

, served as the

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from 1911 to 1913. Francisco José Madero married María Luisa Fernández del Castillo, in 1953. The couple had seven children - Francisco José, Miguel Agustín Segundo, Jorge Raúl, María Luisa, Bernardo, Ignacio, and Rodolfo.

Political career

Madero began his career as an accountant. Madero was the chairman of the local

's Torreón municipal committee from 1962 to 1963. He next served as the head of the state Public Registry of Property from October 1963 until September 1975. Madero served as the 54th Municipal President (mayor) of

from 1976 to 1978. He was elected as a federal deputy of the Chamber of Deputies representing Coahuila, serving in the LI Legislature from September 1, 1979, until August 1, 1982. He took a leave of absence from the Chamber of Deputies in 1981 to become interim

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following the

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of his predecessor, former Governor Oscar Flores Tapia. He served as the Governor of Coahuila for a brief tenure from August 11, 1981, until November 30, 1981. Madero later became a Senator within the Senate of the Republic during the LII and LIII federal Legislatures. His last public office was as the head of the Jefe del Departamento de Promociones Social de Infonavit from 1991 to 1993. He became the director of the General del Instituto Coahuilense para las Personas Adultas Mayores in 2002.

Death

On February 16, 2013, Francisco José Madero González was found unconscious in his bedroom at 8 AM by one of his servants. Madero was immediately taken to the hospital, where he spent five nights. Madero's death was confirmed by Coahuila Governor

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, via

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on Thursday at 1 PM. His funeral was held the following evening at 4 PM; he died from

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at the age of 82.

References

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