Eulalio Guti%C3%A9rrez

Eulalio Gutirrez Ortiz was a general in the Mexican Revolution from state of Coahuila. He is most notable for his election as provisional president of Mexico during the Aguascalientes Convention and led the country for a few months between November 6, 1914, and January 16, 1915. The Convention was convened by revolutionaries who had successfully ousted the regime of Victoriano Huerta after more than a year of conflict. Gutirrez rather than First Chief Venustiano Carranza was chosen president of Mexico and a new round of violence broke out as revolutionary factions previously united turned against each other. The high point of Gutirrezs career occurred when he moved with the Conventionist army to shoulder the responsibilities of his new office . Gutirrezs government was weak and he could not control the two main generals of the Army of the Convention, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. Gutirrez moved the capital of his government from Mexico City to San Luis Potos. He resigned as presi

He was born on the Hacienda de Santo Domingo, in the municipality of Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila. In his youth he was a shepherd and a miner in Concepcin del Oro, Zacatecas, where after some years he was named mayor of the municipality.

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