Francisco Vázquez Gómez (23 September 1860 – 16 August 1933) served as personal physician to
Mexican president Porfirio Díaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (; ; 15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a General (Mexico), Mexican general and politician who was the dictator of Mexico from 1876 until Mexican Revolution, his overthrow in 1911 seizing power in a Plan ...
, 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
Bernardo Doroteo Reyes Ogazón (30 August 1850 – 9 February 1913) was a Mexican general and politician who fought in the Second French intervention in Mexico and served as the appointed Governor of Nuevo León for more than two decades dur ...
, another presidential hopeful with strong ties to Díaz' regime.
Biography
Vázquez Gómez was born in
Tula, Tamaulipas, into a rich
Amerindian
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family. He studied Medicine in
Mexico City
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and worked as a physician in
Xalapa
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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
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and democratic government.
[Hart, John Mason. ''Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Progress of the Mexican Revolution'' p. 240]
After a short voluntary exile in
El Paso, Texas
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, 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).
References
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Secretaries of education of Mexico
20th-century Mexican physicians
Politicians from Tamaulipas
1860 births
1933 deaths
19th-century Mexican physicians
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