Jose Maria Pino Suarez (8 September 1869 – 22 February 1913) was Vice President of Mexico from 6 November 1911 to 19 February 1913, succeeding Abraham Gonzalez. A friend of Francisco I. Madero and a leader of the Anti-Reelectionist Party during the Mexican Revolution, he was assassinated alongside Madero during Victoriano Huerta's 1913 coup.
Biography[]
Jose Maria Pino Suarez was born in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico in 1869, the great-grandson of Pedro Sainz de Baranda y Borreiro. He studied under the Jesuits at Merida before becoming a lawyer in both Merida and Mexico City, and he founded El Peninsular newspaper in 1904 with the financial backing of his wealthy in-laws. He met Francisco I. Madero in 1909 and became a leader of the Anti-Reelectionist Party, and he joined Madero in exile in the United States at the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910. He served as Secretary of Justice from 1910 to 1911, as Governor of Yucatan in 1911, as Vice President from 1911 to 1913, and as Education Secretary from 1912 to 1913. He oversaw the liberalization of press freedoms, but this backfired, as the same press criticized him for his moderate views. In 1913, he and President Madero were overthrown in a coup and forced to resign at gunpoint before being executed by Victoriano Huerta.