Francisco Javier Gaxiola Castillo-Negrete (b. Sinaloa de Leyva

Sinaloa de Leyva

Sinaloa de Leyva is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.Its geographical location is .Sinaloa de Leyva serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Sinaloa, Sinaloa. The municipality reported 85,100 inhabitants in the 2000 census. It is the former capital of the Pacific...

, January 31, 1870 – d. Mexico City

Mexico City

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, November 18, 1933) was a Mexican

Mexico

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 lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Gaxiola taught in superior-level institutions of law in the Estado de México. As diplomat he was adviser of the Legation of Mexico in Madrid. From September 11, 1919, to March 8, 1920, he was acting Governor of the State of Mexico

Governor of the State of Mexico

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, while Agustín Millán Vivero

Agustín Millán Vivero

Agustín Millán Vivero was a Mexican general and politician.- Biography :Millán moved to Orizaba, when he was 20 years old, where he worked as a carpenter. In 1909, during the beginning revolution in Mexico, he joined the Partido Antireeleccionista , and supported Francisco I. Madero...

, the original governor, accompanied President Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza

Venustiano Carranza de la Garza, was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914 and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted...

, when the rebellion in Agua Prieta

Plan of Agua Prieta

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 exploded.

Publications

• El General Antonio Rosales : revista histórica del estado en Sinaloa de 1856 a 1865, 1894
• Gobernantes del estado de México; Muzquiz-Zavala-Olaguíbel, 1899

Decorations

• Commander of the Orden de Isabel la Católica
• Commander of the Spanish Red Cross