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Enrique Estrada

Enrique Estrada Reynoso (1890-3 November 1942) was Secretary of War and the Navy of Mexico from 1920 to 1922, succeeding Benjamin G. Hill and preceding Francisco R. Serrano; under President Lazaro Cardenas, he served as Armament Minister.

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Enrique Estrada Reynoso was born in 1890 in Moyahua, Zacatecas, Mexico, the brother of Roque Estrada Reynoso. He studied in Guadalajara and Jalisco, and he served under General Rafael Tapia during the Mexican Revolution, fighting in Jalisco and Zacatecas. He served as Governor of Zacatecas from 1916 to 1917 and for two more terms in 1917, and he led military operations in Michoacan in 1917 and 1918. Estrada served as Secretary of War and the Navy under President Alvaro Obregon from 1920 to 1922, and he later fought against several rebellions against the government. Under President Lazaro Cardenas, he served as Armaments Minister, and he died in 1942.

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