Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (born 1877)

Plutarco Elías Calles

Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican politician and military officer who served as the 47th president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. After the assassination of Álvaro Obregón, Calles founded the Institutional Revolutionary Party and held unofficial power as Mexico's de facto leader from 1929 to 1934, a period known as the Maximato. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army, as Governor of Sonora, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Interior. During the Maximato, he served as Secretariat of Public Education, Secretary of War again, and Secretary of the Economy.

Born

1877

September 25

Died

1945

Era

1870s

Country

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Plutarco, in brief

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1877 Born
1945 Died

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The world in 1945

When Plutarco departed

april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Also born in 1877

Eddie Cochems 1877–1953 American football player and coach (born 1877) Edgar Cayce 1877–1945 American psychic and author (born 1877) Frederick Soddy 1877–1956 English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956) Jakob Ehrlich 1877–1938 Czech-Austrian academic and politician (born 1877) James Agate 1877–1947 English author and critic (born 1877) Lewis Terman 1877– American psychologist, eugenicist, and academic (died 1956) Pascual Ortiz Rubio 1877– Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963) Paul Ladmirault 1877– French pianist, violinist, and composer (died 1944) Stanley Lord 1877– English captain (died 1962)

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