Ramon Corral Verdugo (10 January 1854 – 10 November 1912) was Vice President of Mexico from 1 December 1904 to 25 May 1911, succeeding Valentin Gomez Farias and preceding Abraham Gonzales Casavantes. He was a Liberal Party of Mexico member and the first Vice-President since 1847.
Biography[]
Ramon Corral Verdugo was born in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico in 1854, and he entered politics with the Liberal Party of Mexico. He served as Governor of Sonora from 1887 to 1891 and from 1895 to 1899, as Governor of the Federal District from 1900 to 1903, as Interior Secretary from 1903 to 1911, and as Vice President from 1904 to 1911. Porfirio Diaz groomed the nonentity Ramon Corral as his successor, passing over Jose Yves Limantour and Bernardo Reyes. Diaz chose Corral due to his sickness with cancer, as he feared that nominating either Limantour or Reyes to the vice presidency would lead to a civil war between the rival factions and possibly his own assassination. Corral was a highly unpopular Vice President, and his infamy was one of the causes of the Mexican Revolution in 1910. He accompanied Diaz into exile in France and died in 1912.