Manuel González Flores
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 31st President of Mexico |
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In office 1 December 1880 – 30 November 1884 |
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| Preceded by | Porfirio Díaz |
| Succeeded by | Porfirio Díaz |
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18 June 1833 El Moquete, Matamoros, Tamaulipas |
| Died | 10 April 1893 (aged 59) Chapingo, State of Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | Liberal |
Manuel del Refugio González Flores (18 June 1833 – 10 April 1893) was a Mexican military general and liberal politician who served as the 36th President of Mexico from 1880 to 1884. Before initiating his presidential career, González played important roles in the Mexican-American war as a lieutenant, and later in the Reform War as general, in the service of the Conservative Party. González was also governor of Michoacán (1877) and Guanajuato (1885) and served as Secretary of War and Navy from 1878 to 1879.
Manuel González is the first president of Mexico from Tamaulipas that has been elected through popular vote; Emilio Portes Gil, also from Tamaulipas, became the interim president of Mexico after the assassination of Álvaro Obregón in 1928.
González was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. He began his military career in 1847, fighting the invaders from the United States after they killed his father, a farmer. From 1853 to 1855, he fought with the Conservative forces supporting General Antonio López de Santa Anna. At the time of the Plan de Ayutla in 1854, he was with Conservative General Leonardo Márquez in Oaxaca, fighting against Liberal Porfirio Díaz.
In 1856, he was wounded at the Battle of Ocotlán (1856), fighting with rebels against President Ignacio Comonfort. In March 1859, he took part in an attack on Veracruz by Conservative General Miguel Miramón, against the legal, Liberal government of President Benito Juárez. In 1860, he took advantage of an amnesty for the Conservatives decreed by Congress and offered his services to the Liberals fighting against Maximilian of Habsburg and the French invasion.
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