Ramón Corral

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Ramón Corral

Ramón Corral Verdugo (born January 10, 1854 in Álamos , † November 10, 1912 ) was a Mexican politician and from 1904 to 1911 the first Vice President of Mexico.

Corral trained as a printer and published magazines such as El Fantasma and La Voz de Alamos in the early 1870s . In 1879 he became secretary to the governor of Sonora , in 1887 first lieutenant governor and then governor. Corral became known for the ruthless suppression of the uprising of the Yaqui , whose leader Cayemé was executed.

In 1900 he was appointed governor of the Federal District by President Porfirio Díaz , appointed Secretario de Gobernación (Minister of the Interior) in 1903 and the newly created office of Vice-President in 1904. In 1906 he prevented the execution of the leaders of a miners' strike.

After the new election of Díaz in 1910, Corral was again Vice President. After the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution under the leadership of Francisco Madero , he followed Díaz into exile in Paris, where he died in 1912.