Amado Aguirre Santiago

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Aguirre and the second or maternal family name is Santiago.

Amado Aguirre Santiago (February 3 or 8,^[1][2] 1863 – August 22, 1949) was a Mexican general and politician.

Amado Aguirre Santiago
Born	February 3/8, 1863 San Sebastián, Jalisco, Mexico
Died	August 22, 1949 (1949-08-23) (aged 86) Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation(s)	general and politician

Biography

Aguirre was born in 1863 in San Sebastián, Jalisco, the son of Ignacio Aguirre Peña, the first municipal president of San Sebastián, and Mariana Santiago Lope. He graduated from the mining engineering program in Guadalajara. During the Mexican Revolution, he fought under General Manuel M. Diéguez [es], and later joined General Álvaro Obregón. He held a number of positions in the Mexican government, at various levels. From 1916 to 1917, he was a constituent deputy, then military commander of Guadalajara, interim governor of Jalisco, member of the inspection commission of the army, senator during the 27th Congress, undersecretary of agriculture and development (Spanish: Subsecretario de Agricultura y Fomento, and president of the Comité Nacional Obregonista, manager of the Caja de Préstamos. He was Secretary of Communications and Public Works from 1921 to 1924, and was governor and military commander of the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo from 1924 to 1925,^[3] ambassador to Chile and representative to Brazil and Costa Rica,^[4] governor and military commander of the Baja California Sur district from 1927 to 1929,^[5] and director of the Heroico Colegio Militar in 1925.^[6][2]

He died in Mexico City in 1949.