Marcelino Murrieta Murrieta
General Marcelino Murrieta
Marcelino Murrieta Murrieta (c.1870-1938) was a Mexican military and politician, originally from Veracruz. He held various positions, as director of the H. Colegio Militar, customs director of Ciudad Juárez and governor of the penal colony Islas Marías. Recognized supporter of the revolutionary leader Álvaro Obregón. Biography
Born in Teziutlan, Puebla, or Cuahtamingo, Jalacingo municipality, Veracruz, both neighboring towns. His parents were related, as is testified by their surnames. His mother was called Guadalupe.
He trained as a teacher in the Normal School of Jalapa, under the tutelage of the Swiss pedagogue Enrique Rébsamen. Later it changed to the military race during the Mexican Revolution, arriving to acquire the rank of General of Brigade. In 1914, as a colonel, he served as the representative of General Heriberto Jara in the vote on the removals of Don Venustiano Carranza, as First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, in charge of the Executive Power, and of General Francisco Villa, as head of the Northern Division. In 1917 he fights in the Sierra Norte of the country.
In 1921 on the occasion of the centenary of the consummation of independence, he paraded in Mexico City under the command of the Vanguard Brigade of the Military College, receiving a great ovation in the Plaza del Zócalo. He was Director of the Heroic Military College between 1921 and 1922. Once the revolution ended, he held various public positions, for example customs director in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. In Ciudad Juárez, at the outbreak of the escobarista revolution, it is seconded by C. Agustín Gallo, Municipal President, as well as by some other authorities and neighbors. The Head of the Garrison of the Plaza, General Manuel Limón, defends the city until the last moment, moving to El Paso, Texas.
On March 6 they take the Marcelino Murrieta Square accompanied by General Agustín de la Vega and Miguel del Valle. He later lived in exile in Guatemala. He died in 1938 in Mexico City.
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