General Manuel Pérez Treviño (June 5, 1890 – April 29, 1945) was a Mexican

Mexico

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 politician

Politician

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 and was an important military and political leader during and after the Mexican Revolution

Mexican Revolution

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Pérez Treviño was born on June 5, 1890, to Jesús Pérez Rodríguez and Candelaria Treviño de Pérez in Villa de Guerrero in the state of Coahuila

Coahuila

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. He was married to Esther González.

In 1913, after studying engineering in Mexico City, he joined the Mexican Revolution as a second captain in an artillery unit. After the Revolution, he founded the National Revolutionary Party (PNR, Partido Nacional Revolucionario), which later became the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI, Partido Revolucionario Institucional). Among other positions, he was the president of the PNR, governor of Coahuila

Governor of Coahuila

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, preliminary candidate to the Presidency of the Republic

President of Mexico

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, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Industry and Commerce, and ambassador to Chile

Chile

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 and Spain

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He died on April 29, 1945, in Nueva Rosita

Nueva Rosita

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, Coahuila.