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Plutarco Elías Calles

1877 - 1945

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Plutarco Elías Calles (born Francisco Plutarco Elías Campuzano; 25 September 1877 – 19 October 1945) was a Mexican politician and military officer who served as President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. After the assassination of Álvaro Obregón, Elías Calles founded the Institutional Revolutionary Party and held unofficial power as Mexico's de facto leader from 1929 to 1934, a period known as the Maximato. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army, as Governor of Sonora, Secretary of War, and Secretary of the Interior. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Plutarco Elías Calles has received more than 1,081,730 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Plutarco Elías Calles is the 3,934th most popular politician (down from 3,772nd in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Mexican Politician.

Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. He is most famous for being the head of the Mexican Revolution and for his role in the Cristero War.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Plutarco Elías Calles ranks 3,934 out of 19,576. Before him are Maurice Thorez, Nabis, Louis, Count of Évreux, Isabella of Hainault, Abdul Halim Khaddam, and Emund the Old. After him are Ulf Kristersson, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Hipparchus, Yuan Chonghuan, Adam Albert von Neipperg, and Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Plutarco Elías Calles ranks 29. Before him are Oswald Avery, Karl Abraham, Mykola Leontovych, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, Alfred Kubin, and André Maginot. After him are Ernst von Dohnányi, Aga Khan III, Rudolf Hilferding, Henry Norris Russell, James Jeans, and Alben W. Barkley. Among people deceased in 1945, Plutarco Elías Calles ranks 84. Before him are Franz Ziereis, René Lalique, Wied, Prince of Albania, Mitsuru Ushijima, Hans Oster, and John Ambrose Fleming. After him are Georg Kaiser, Elisabeth Volkenrath, Josef Terboven, Rudolf von Sebottendorf, Kurt Gerstein, and Walter Bradford Cannon.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Plutarco Elías Calles ranks 34 out of 729. Before him are Cantinflas (1911), Guillermo del Toro (1964), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), and Luis Barragán (1902). After him are Venustiano Carranza (1859), Julia Pastrana (1834), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), Mario J. Molina (1943), Pedro Armendáriz (1912), and María Félix (1914).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Plutarco Elías Calles ranks 14. Before him are La Malinche (1502), Moctezuma I (1398), Francisco I. Madero (1873), Vicente Fox (1942), Lázaro Cárdenas (1895), and Álvaro Obregón (1880). After him are Venustiano Carranza (1859), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), Victoriano Huerta (1850), Cuitláhuac (1476), Vicente Guerrero (1782), and Ahuitzotl (1486).

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