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Biography of Venustiano Carranza
Name: Venustiano Carranza
Birth Date: December 29, 1859
Death Date: May 21, 1920
Place of Birth: Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: president, revolutionary
Venustiano Carranza
The Mexican revolutionary and president Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920) led the constitutionalist movement against the Huerta government and convoked the constituent assembly which drafted the Constitution of 1917.Venustiano Carranza was born in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, on Dec. 29, 1859. He began his political career during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, serving as municipal president, local deputy, and senator of his birthplace. During the political upheavals of 1908-1910 he became an early supporter of the presidential candidacy of Francisco Madero. The support of the Porfirian politico added prestige to the Madero rebellion of 1910. Carranza served in the revolutionary movement's cabinet and, subsequently, as governor of Coahuila. After Madero's assassination Carranza became the chief of the movement against the usurper Victoriano Huerta to restore constitutional government.The revolutionary coalition of Carranza, Pancho Villa, and Emiliano Zapata began to dissolve even before Huerta fled into exile in 1914. Carranza sought to consolidate his control through …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…successor instead of the popular Obregón. Under the plan of Agua Prieta of April 1920 the Sonoran triumvirate of Obregón, Plutarco Calles, and Huerta rebelled. Carranza was forced to flee once again toward Veracruz. However, on May 21, 1920, he was assassinated in a peasant hut at Tlaxcalantongo, Puebla, betrayed by forces which had joined his escort. Associated Events Mexican Revolution, 1910 Further Reading There is no scholarly study of Carranza in either Spanish or English. However, studies of the revolution throw light on aspects of his career. Charles C. Cumberland describes the epic phase of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico: The Struggle for Modernity (1968). Frank Tannenbaum, Peace by Revolution: An Interpretation of Mexico (1933), contains a penetrating analysis of the 1917 Constitution. Two specialized studies by Robert E. Quirk are particularly significant: The Mexican Revolution, 1914-1915: The Convention of Aguascalientes (1960) and An Affair of Honor: Woodrow Wilson and the Occupation of Veracruz (1962).
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