Francisco Vazquez Gomez (23 September 1860 – 16 August 1933) was a Mexican politician and the founder of the Progressive Constitutionalist Party.
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Francisco Vazquez Gomez was born in Tula, Tamaulipas, Mexico in 1860, and he served as a phsyician to Porfirio Diaz's family before becoming a leading supporter of Bernardo Reyes during the 1900s. Once Reyes was exiled to Europe by Diaz, Vazquez and most other Reyistas moved over to Francisco I. Madero, who chose Vazquez as his running mate in the 1910 presidential election. When the Mexican Revolution began, he left for the United States, and, while he served in Madero's revolutionary government, he later split with the Anti-Reelectionist Party and founded the Progressive Constitutionalist Party. He was exiled due to the failure of the 1911 Plan de Tacubaya and went into exile, and he later returned and died in Mexico City in 1933.