Francisco Vazquez-Gomez collection

Francisco Vazquez-Gomez was born September 23, 1860 in Tula, in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, died August 16, 1933 in Mexico City, Mexico. Vazquez-Gomez became a physician in 1889 after attending the National School of Medicine in Mexico City. He served as Minister of Education during the presidency of Porfirio Diaz in addition to being his physician and physician to the Madero family of Coahuila. He married Guadalupe Norma in 1890 and together they had ten children. In 1908 along with his brother, Emilio, he joined the Anti-Reelectionist party that opposed and eventually ousted President Diaz. He supported Francisco Madero and Emiliano Zapata in their respective revolutionary efforts for agrarian reform. He became a candidate for vice-president of Mexico on the 1910 ticket that included Francisco Madero as candidate for president. After a falling out with Madero he was removed as vice-presidential candidate and was assigned as Madero's representative in Washington, D.C. from 1911 to 1913. He later joined Pascual Orozco and his "Colorados" in their rebellion against Madero. Vazquez-Gomez fell out of favor when Victoriano Huerta had Francisco Madero assassinated and ascended to power. In 1914 he was exiled by Huerta and settled in Bexar County, Texas in the United States where he practiced medicine until 1923. He returned to Mexico in 1923 where he was a Professor of Pathology at the National School of Medicine. He wrote "Memorias Politicas, 1909-1913" about his experiences in the Mexican Revolution which was published in 1933, the year of his death.