Francisco Lagos Cházaro

Who was Francisco Lagos Cházaro?

Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero was acting President of Mexico designated by the Convention of Aguascalientes from June 10, 1915 to October 10, 1915.

Lagos Cházaro studied for a legal career in Veracruz, Puebla and Mexico City. In 1909 he joined the antireelectionist movement against President Porfirio Díaz led by Francisco I. Madero. In 1911 he was elected to the city council of Orizaba, Veracruz. He was also governor of the state of Veracruz during the presidency of Madero. On the death of Madero in 1913 he joined the constitutionalist party. President Venustiano Carranza named him president of the Superior Court of Justice of Coahuila.

In 1915 on the break between the revolutionary leaders, he joined with Francisco Villa. He was founder and director of the periodical Vida Nueva in Chihuahua. Villa joined with Emiliano Zapata in the Convention of Aguascalientes. With their supporters they formed the conventionalist party, in opposition to the constitutionalist party of Carranza. Lagos was personal secretary of General Roque González Garza when the latter was named president of the Republic by the conventionalists.