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Venustiano Carranza

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Original Name
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza
Birth
Cuatrocienegas de Carranza, Cuatrociénegas Municipality, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
Death
21 May 1920 (aged 60)
Tlaxcalantongo, Xicotepec Municipality, Puebla, Mexico
Burial
Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico Add to Map
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President of Mexico. was one of the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution, whose victorious northern revolutionary Constitutionalist Army defeated the counter-revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta and then defeated fellow revolutionaries after Huerta's ouster. He secured power in Mexico, serving as head of state from 1914 to 1916. With the promulgation of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, serving from 1916 to 1920. He was responsible for the death of revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.
President of Mexico. was one of the main leaders of the Mexican Revolution, whose victorious northern revolutionary Constitutionalist Army defeated the counter-revolutionary regime of Victoriano Huerta and then defeated fellow revolutionaries after Huerta's ouster. He secured power in Mexico, serving as head of state from 1914 to 1916. With the promulgation of a new revolutionary Mexican Constitution of 1917, he was elected president, serving from 1916 to 1920. He was responsible for the death of revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2000
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18402/venustiano-carranza: accessed ), memorial page for Venustiano Carranza (29 Dec 1859–21 May 1920), Find a Grave Memorial ID 18402, citing Monumento a la Revolución, Tabacalera, Cuauhtémoc Borough, Ciudad de México, Mexico; Maintained by Find a Grave.