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Plutarco Elías Callesb. 25 Sep 1877, Guaymas, Sonora |
| Title: | Presidente Constitucional de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Constitutional President of the Mexican United States) |
| Term: | 1 Dec 1924 - 30 Nov 1928 |
| Chronology: | 6 Jul 1924, elected by general indirect voting [1] |
| 24:00 30 Nov 1924, sworn in, joint session of the thirty-first Congreso de la Unión (Congress of the Union), Estadio Nacional, Mexico City [2] | |
| 1 Dec 1924, commencement of term [1] | |
| 30 Nov 1928, expiration of term [1] | |
| Names/titles: | Original name: Francisco Plutarco Elías Campuzano, briefly replaced by Plutarco Calles. |
| Biography: | |||||||||
Secretary of the Interior in the Obregón cabinet, Plutarco Calles, was elected president by 84 percent of votes at direct election on 6 Jul 1924. Though the principle of no reelection had been a fundamental postulate of the Revolution since 1910, during Calles’ tenure, which lasted from 1924 to 1928, the Constitution was amended (22 Jan 1927, 24 Jan 1928) to permit non-immediate reelection and lengthen the presidential term to six years. President-elect Alvaro Obregón was assassinated in 1928, and for the next six years Calles was the real power behind three puppet presidents. Biography source: [3] |
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| [1] | Diario de los Debates de la Cámara de Diputados del Congreso de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos - Año I - Período Ordinario XXXI Legislatura - Tomo I - Número 22. The election results were approved by the resolution of the Cámara de Diputados del Congreso de la Unión (Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union) provisionally transformed into the Electoral College (27 Sep 1924). The same resolution fixed the presidential term as lasting from 1 Dec 1924 to 30 Nov 1928. | ||||||||
| [2] | Diario de los Debates de la Cámara de Diputados del Congreso de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos - Año I - Período Ordinario XXXI Legislatura - Tomo I - Número 45. | ||||||||
| [3] | "Plutarco Elias Calles and the Mexican Revolution", by Jurgen Buchenau (Denver: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). | ||||||||
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