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  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Parras, Mexico
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Mexico City, Mexico
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Francisco Madero successfully removed dictator Porfirio Díaz from office in Mexico. He became president in 1911, but was assassinated two years later.


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Francisco Madero was born on October 30, 1873, in Parras, Mexico. He was born into a wealthy family and studied in the U.S. and in Paris. Madero organized an “Antireelectionist Party” when Mexico’s dictator Porfirio Díaz declared he would run for reelection in 1910. Madero won the presidential election in 1911, but was unprepared for the demands office. He was assassinated in 1913.

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