Manuel González Flores Politician
Manuel del Refugio González Flores (18 June 1833 – 10 April 1893) was a military general and Mexican liberal politician who served as the 31st president of Mexico (from 1880 to 1884). Before initiating his presidential career, González played important roles in the French intervention in Mexico as a lieutenant, and later in the Reform War as general, in the service of the Conservative Party. González was also governor of Michoacán (1877) and Guanajuato (1885) and served as Secretary of National Defense from 1878 to 1879.Manuel González is the first president of Mexico from Tamaulipas that has been elected through popular vote; Emilio Portes Gil, also from Tamaulipas, became the interim president of Mexico after the assassination of Álvaro Obregón in 1928.
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