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Francisco Vzquez Gmez served as personal physician to Mexican president Porfirio Daz, as Minister of Public Instruction to President Francisco Len de la Barra and as a running mate to Francisco I. Madero during the 1910 presidential elections. Prior to this Vzquez Gmez had been a supporter of Bernardo Reyes, another presidential hopeful with strong ties to Daz regime.

Vzquez Gmez was born in Tula, Tamaulipas, into a rich Amerindian family. He studied Medicine in Mexico City and worked as a physician in Xalapa before returning to serve as the personal physician to longtime serving President Daz. In 1909, he joined his brother Emilio in the antireelectionist movement but refused to join a national call to arms after the government illegally imprisoned former presidential candidate Francisco I. Madero, with whom he campaigned on a narrow, pro freemarket and democratic government.

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