Eulalio Gutiérrez (1880 – 1939) was elected provisional president of Mexico during the Aguascalientes Convention and exercised this office from November 3, 1914 until January 16, 1915.

He was born in the Hacienda de Santo Domingo in the municipality of Ramos Arizpe , Coahuila. In his youth he was a shepherd and a miner in Concepción de Oro , Zacatecas, where after some years he was named mayor of the municipality. After joining Ricardo Flores Magón's Partido Liberal Mexicano ("Mexican Liberal Party ") for a brief period, he affiliated with the Partido Antirreleccionista ("Anti-reelectionist Party ") of Francisco I. Madero in 1909. After participating in the Mexican Revolution and later in the election of Madero as president of Mexico, he decided to return to his native state and was elected mayor of Ramos Arizpe. After the coup of Victoriano Huerta he took up arms again and placed himself under the orders of Pablo González in the Constitutionalist Army of Venustiano Carranza.

During the Aguascalientes Convention, he was named the provisional president of the Republic on November 1, 1914 and assumed the position two days later. His cabinet was composed of Lucio Blanco as Interior Minister; José Vasconcelos as Minister for Public Instruction and Fine Arts; Valentín Gama as Minister for Public Works; Felícitos Villarreal as Finance Minister; José Isabel Robles as Defense Minister (Guerra y Marina); Manuel Palafox as Agriculture Minister; Manuel Chao as Mayor of the Distrito Federal; Mateo Almanza as Commander of the National Guard (Guarnición de México), and Pánfilo Natera as president of the Supreme Military Tribunal. One month later revolutionary leaders Francisco Villa and Emiliano Zapata took Mexico City. After seeing himself manipulated by Villa's troops, he decided to leave the capital on January 16, 1915 and move his government to San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, where he declared Villa and Carranza traitors to the "revolutionary spirit" and formally renounced his position July 2, 1915. After exiling himself to the United States, he returned to Mexico in 1920 under the amnesty of Álvaro Obregón and was elected senator and governor of Coahuila in 1928.

After publicly rejecting the reelection of Álvaro Obregón and the maximato of Plutarco Elías Calles (the period during which Calles was Jefe Maximo, "Maximum Chief", and ruled via puppet presidents) he joined the rebellion of José Gonzalo Escobar . After the defeat of that rebellion, he exiled himself to San Antonio, Texas and did not return to Mexico until 1935. Four years later, he died in the city of Saltillo.

References

• This article draws heavily on the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

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• Mexican Revolution
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