Francisco I. Madero
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He was born in Parras, Coahuila, the son of Francisco Madero and Mercedes GonzÃÂález TreviÃÂño. (His middle initial, I, stood for either "Ignacio" or "Indalecio".) His parents were one of the richest families in Mexico, of Portuguese descent. Madero was educated in Baltimore, Versailles, and at the University of California, Berkeley.
Affected by the plight of the poor under the dictator Porfirio DÃÂÃÂaz, in 1904 Madero became involved in politics with the Benito JuÃÂárez Democratic Club.
He was a liberal capitalist who feared that the existing regime under DÃÂÃÂaz would inevitably breed true social revolution — a fear that proved accurate with the subsequent rise of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Madero favored an oligarchic faÃÂçade democracy that would protect the elite from popular insurrection; he wrote that "the ignorant public... should take no direct part in determining who should be the candidate for public office." Madero thus criticized DÃÂÃÂaz's regime as counterproductive; he proposed some concessions to peasants and the proletariat that would guarantee the climate of order and stability from which the elite, foreign and domestic, benefited under DÃÂÃÂaz. Madero also hoped such concessions would curb the growth of radical ideas.
He ran in the mexican presidency in the early 1900s .DÃÂÃÂaz in 1910,(Diaz was currently in power. He didn't back down from Diaz during the election.He was elected as candidate for the Anti-reelectionist movement.This silm gentlemen from nothern Mexico,only wanted for Diaz to share more power among the Mexican elite,but Diaz refused.As a result Madero got radical As a result he opened up the door for other various leaders to run for election; such as peasants. He was arrested in June and then released conditionally in July. DÃÂÃÂaz was declared president, with an improbably massive majority, in October 1910. Madero refused to recognize the result and assumed the provisional presidency, designating November 20 for the start of what was later called the Mexican Revolution. The government discovered the action being prepared and Madero fled to San Antonio, Texas. But the Revolution had spread in the north, where Francisco Villa occupied Chihuahua and Ciudad JuÃÂárez. The overthrow of DÃÂÃÂaz was accomplished on May 17, when Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad JuÃÂárez, in which he demanded the resignation of DÃÂÃÂaz as a condition for an armistice. DÃÂÃÂaz resigned on May 25, 1911.
Madero appointed Francisco LeÃÂón de la Barra as Interim President. De la Barra was strongly conservative and acted to neutralise the more radical ideas of the Revolution. Madero was called a traitor and Emiliano Zapata abandoned him.
When Madero won the presidential elections in October 1911, taking office the following 6 November, the division among the revolutionaries was enormous. Both the Zapatistas and the conservatives became disenchanted with Madero's handling of agrarian problems.
In early 1913 Victoriano Huerta, the commander of the armed forces, conspired with FÃÂélix DÃÂÃÂaz (Porfirio's nephew) and US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson. Following their coup d'ÃÂétat on February 18, 1913, Madero was forced to resign. After a very brief term of office by Pedro LascurÃÂáin, Huerta took over the presidency later that day. Francisco Madero was executed four days later, aged 39. His brother Gustavo A. Madero was also killed. The Huerta government later said that they were ordered killed after a failed rescue attempt by their supporters.