Práxedes Giner Durán (February 15, 1893 – May 13, 1978) was a Mexican military official, politician, and member of the then-dominant

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI). He participated in the

Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction ...

as a part of

Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa (,"Villa"
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's famed

División del Norte The División del Norte was an armed faction formed by Francisco I. Madero and initially led by General José González Salas following Madero's call to arms at the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910. González Salas served in Francisc ...

and became an icon in his home state. He was the

Governor of Chihuahua According to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, Executive Power in that Mexican state resides with a single individual, the Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, who is chosen ...

from 1962 until 1968.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giner Duran, Praxedes 1893 births 1978 deaths Governors of Chihuahua (state) Politicians from Chihuahua (state) Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Mexican military personnel People of the Mexican Revolution 20th-century Mexican politicians People from Camargo, Chihuahua