Francisco Javier Gaxiola

Francisco Javier Gaxiola
Governor of the State of Mexico
In office September 11, 1919 – March 8, 1920 (acting)
President	Venustiano Carranza
Preceded by	Agustín Millán Vivero
Succeeded by	Agustín Millán Vivero
Personal details
Born	January 31, 1870 Sinaloa de Leyva
Died	November 18, 1933 (aged 63) Mexico City
Nationality	Mexican
Profession	lawyer, politician, diplomat

Francisco Javier Gaxiola Castillo-Negrete^[1] (b. Sinaloa de Leyva, January 31, 1870 – d. Mexico City, November 18, 1933^[2]) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and diplomat.

Gaxiola taught in superior-level institutions of law in the Estado de México. As diplomat he was adviser of the Legation of Mexico in Madrid.^[3] From September 11, 1919, to March 8, 1920, he was acting Governor of the State of Mexico,^[4] while Agustín Millán Vivero, the original governor, accompanied President Venustiano Carranza, when the rebellion in Agua Prieta exploded.^[5]

Publications

• El General Antonio Rosales : revista histórica del estado en Sinaloa de 1856 a 1865, 1894
• Gobernantes del estado de México; Muzquiz-Zavala-Olaguíbel, 1899

Decorations

• Commander of the Orden de Isabel la Católica
• Commander of the Spanish Red Cross (Spanish: Cruz Roja Española)

References

1. Panorama mexicano 1890-1910 (Spanish), 2006, p. 52.
2. C. Valadés: Obras (Spanish), 1992, p. XI.
3. José de J. Núñez y Domínguez: Semblanza biográfica del señor licenciado F. Javier Gaxiola (Spanish).
4. States of Mexico M-Z - México (Estado de México)
5. Gerardo Novo Valencia: El centro deportivo Agustín Millán (Spanish), October 22, 2007.

External links

• Works by or about Francisco Javier Gaxiola at Internet Archive
• Francisco Javier Gaxiola in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin