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Francisco de Paula y de Asís de Jesús María y José Rafael Joaquín Mariano Vicente Ferrer Trinidad Juan Nepomuceno Juan Francisco Régis Lugardo y Cruz León de la Barra y Quijano

b. 16 Jun 1863, Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro
d. ______

Title: Presidente Interino Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos
Term: 25 May 1911 - 6 Nov 1911
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second sindico (1899)(1900)(1901)(not reeelected in Dec 1902); was given a diplomatic assignment to Italy by President Francisco I. Madero; returned to Mexico in 1912; won a seat in the national Senado from the State of Mexico as a member of the National Catholic Party; led a delegation of the Senado to seek the resignation of Madero during an attempted coup (1913); appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs (21 Feb 1913 - 8 Jul 1913); elected governor of the State of Mexico (1913-1914), but was given permission to hold other offices; ambassador to France (1913-914); biography
Biographical sources: birth and baptismal record in Archivo de la Parroquia de Santiago en Querétaro, Querétaro, Bautismos generales, vol. 19, 1863, fols. 91-92;
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