Federico Gonzalez Garza (7 March 1876 – 1951) was Governor of Mexico City from 21 August 1912 to 2 February 1913, succeeding Ignacio Rivero and preceding Enrique Cepeda.
Biography[]
Federico Gonzalez Garza was born in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico in 1876, and he was expelled from school at the age of 17 for his political activism. He became head of the telegraph office in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila, where he befriended Francisco I. Madero. He then became a lawyer and a leader of the Anti-Reelectionist Party, and he served as Secretary of the Interior in Madero's revolutionary government in Ciudad Juarez at the start of the Mexican Revolution. He went on to serve as Governor of the Federal District from 1912 to 1913, but he was apprehended by General Aureliano Blanquet after failing to personally assassinate Madero in his office. He later escaped to fight alongside Pancho Villa against Victoriano Huerta, and he was forced into exile in 1916 after Venustiano Carranza's rise to power. He returned from the United States on Carranza's death, and he later served as a senator and Supreme Court justice. He died in 1951.