A monument to Calles was erected that commemorated his September 1928 speech declaring the end of the age of caudillos
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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 Gov…
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politics · President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928 · politician · military officer · military personnel · president · Secretary of Government · also Plutarco Elías Calles, Calles
Born 25 September 1877 · Died 19 October 1945 · Q315066
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1990· 1 entry
1988· 1 entry
The party leadership began to acknowledge Calles' contributions and leadership as the party's founder
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-10-19.
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1942· 1 entry
Supported Mexico's declaration of war on the Axis powers
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1934· 2 entries
There were only 334 priests licensed by the government to serve fifteen million people, the rest having been eliminated by emigration, expulsion, execution, and assassination
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Calles supported Lázaro Cárdenas for president, but Cárdenas exiled him and many of his allies to implement more socialist reforms
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1930· 1 entry
The Mexican Communist Party was banned, Mexico stopped its support for the rebels of César Sandino in Nicaragua, strikes were no longer tolerated, and the government ceased re-distributing lands to poorer peasants
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1928· 2 entries
Election won: 1928 election.
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Campaign: 1928 election.
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1927· 2 entries
Married a young woman from Yucatán, Leonor Llorente, who died of a brain tumor in 1932 at age 29
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That expanded a presidential term from four years to six years
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1926· 2 entries
A constitutional change was passed that allowed for a non-consecutive re-election, and in 1928 Obregón was elected as Calles's successor; this amendment was later repealed in 1934
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Legislation was enacted with the purpose of establishing a system of channelling credit to all farmers throughout Mexico
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1925· 1 entry
All federal civil servants became eligible for funeral aid, disability, seniority, old age and survivors’ pensions, together with protection against occupational hazards
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1924· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of Mexico (1924–1928).
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1923· 1 entry
Which cleared the way for Calles's candidacy
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1922· 1 entry
The civil ceremony took place in the Hacienda de La Hormiga and the religious ceremony took place in the Church and former convent of Santa Brígida located in Mexico City in the footage Plutarco Elías Calles can be se
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1920· 2 entries
Aligned himself with fellow Sonoran revolutionary generals Adolfo de la Huerta and Álvaro Obregón to overthrow Carranza under the Plan of Agua Prieta
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And he named Calles as Secretary of the Interior
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1919· 1 entry
Calles travelled to Mexico City to take up the post of Secretary of Industry, Commerce, and Labor in the government of President Venustiano Carranza, the leader of the Constitutionalist faction that had won the Mexican R
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1916· 1 entry
Gompers and Morones put pressure on the Mexican and U
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1915· 2 entries
Building a pragmatic reformist political record, which was to promote the rapid growth of the Mexican national economy, the infrastructure of which he helped to establish
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His forces repelled the Conventionalist faction in Sonora under José María Maytorena and Pancho Villa in the Battle of Agua Prieta
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1877· 1 entry
Born 1877-09-25.
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1865· 1 entry
To battle wounds sustained during the resistance to the French Intervention, leaving his widow with eight children, of which Plutarco was the oldest
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