Francisco Vázquez Gómez

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name = Francisco Vásquez Gómez

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office = Minister of Public Instruction
term_start = 26 May 1911
term_end = 5 November 1911
president = Francisco León de la Barra
birth_date = 23 September 1860 citeweb |author = Microsoft Encarta Online | title = Francisco Vázquez Gómez | url = http://es.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_961534741/Francisco_V%C3%A1zquez_G%C3%B3mez.html | date = 2008 | language = Spanish | accessdate = 2008-06-20 ]
birth_place = Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico
death_date = 16 August 1933
death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
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nationality = Mexican
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spouse = Guadalupe Norma
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alma_mater = National School of Medicine (1889)
profession = Physician and politician
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Francisco Vázquez Gómez (23 September 1860 – 16 August 1933) served as personal physician to Mexican president Porfirio Díaz, [McLynn, Frank. "Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution". p. 30] 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, another presidential hopeful with strong ties to Díaz' regime. [McLynn. "Villa and Zapata" p. 30]

Vázquez Gómez was born in Tula, Tamaulipas, into a rich Amerindian family. He studied Medicine in Mexico City and worked as a phyisician in Jalapa 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 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, 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).

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NAME = Vazquez Gomez, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Vásquez Gómez, Francisco (Spanish); Vázquez Gómez, Francisco (Spanish)
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Former Minister of Public Instruction of Mexico (1911)
DATE OF BIRTH = 23 September 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH = Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico
DATE OF DEATH = 16 August 1933
PLACE OF DEATH = Mexico City, Mexico