| Show STIRRING CARER CAHER OF DIAZ S Sot ia ciler St statesman has eight time almet been chosen president of mexico mexico city porfira diaz wa was 8 born september IS 15 1830 on the anti anniversary of mexican independence oaxaca was his birthplace ills his father j was a spaniard and his big mother of indian extraction ills his mother at first intended ha he should enter the church but finally yielded to his de so that lie ha pursued the studies then required tor for a lawyers career while thua engaged the invasion 0 of mexican territory by arner american loan troops occurred and young diaz with other fellow students offered his services to the the government of oaxaca the governor accepted their the i r patriotic offer hut but did not require the students togo to go into the battlefield diaz served in the revolt against general santa ana 1 and supported juarez in his bis war of reform which begin began in 1855 and ended in 1858 at the age of 29 he was general of a brigade fighting tho the french when napoleon III tried to place Maxim maximilian Lilan on the mexican throne maximilian and his generals word were captured by him in 1867 and soon after mexico city capitulated adlaz was regularly elected president of mexico for the first time in 1877 ile he was succeeded suc ceded at the end of his term by general mani manu el gonzales gonzalea ills hia crowning achievement ln in tho the gon tales administration was tho the abrogation of the law against presidential te e electron and la in 1884 1894 he ha was elected president tor the second time there has been no other president in mexico since then and until last summer the opposition to him never attained serious proportions proportion ile ho was elected president tor tar the eighth eimil june 1 1910 1 |
