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Show STIRRING CARER OF DIAZ. Soldier Stitesman Has Eight Times Been Chosen President of Mexico. Mexico City. Porfiro Diaz was born September 15. 1830. on the anniversary anni-versary of Mexican Independence Oaxaca was his birthplace. Ills father was a Spaniard and his mother of In-dlun In-dlun extraction. His mother at first Intended ha he should enter the church, but finally yielded to bis de sires so that he pursued the Mud'es then requ red f ir a lawyer s ca t er. While thus engaged, the Invasion of Mexican territory by American tro-ipi arcuned, and young Diaz, ith other fellow students, offered his servi is to the government of Oaxaca. The governor accepted th.ir pat "lope offer. of-fer. Lut. dll not require the students to go Into the bnttlelii Id. Diaz seivnl In the revolt against Ceneral Santa Ana, and eupp'irtcd Juarez In his war of reform which begin In is.- and endtd in isrli. At the life of tJ he wag g--.ie-.al of a brigade. flgVing lii" French when Napokon III. tried to plate Maximil'eu on the Mexican throne. Maximilian und his generals were captured by hltu In 1 Si7. and toon after Mexico City capitulate I. Diaz was regularly elected president of Mexico for the first time In 177 He was succeded at the end of hi term by General Minu'l Conz ibs Ills crowning achievement in the (ion zales adminlst ation was the alitor.-j tlon of the law agil-ist presidenila' ' le election, and lu 14 he as lei t ed president f-r t!i" so on I tl.n There has teen no other preidde.r ia Mexico since then, and urn II la t i-i mer the opposition to hi in r.ewi at tained serious proportions lie -v -if. elected president tr Hip eighth Hint t June 1. 1 0 10. |