Eliseo Arredondo

Eliseo Arredondo
Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)
In office
21 August 1914 – 29 November 1914
PresidentVenustiano Carranza
Preceded byJosé María Luján
Succeeded byRafael Zubarán
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
In office
24 February 1916 – 24 February 1917[1]
Preceded byManuel Calero y Sierra[1]
Succeeded byIgnacio Bonillas[1]
Personal details
Born
Eliseo Arredondo de la Garza

(1870-05-05)5 May 1870
Nava, Coahuila
Died18 October 1923(1923-10-18) (aged 53)
Mexico City
NationalityMexican

Eliseo Arredondo de la Garza (5 May 1870 – 18 October 1923) was a Mexican politician and diplomat who briefly served as secretary of the Interior[2] in the government of President Venustiano Carranza; his cousin and father-in-law.[3][4] Arredondo also served as a federal congressman in the Chamber of Deputies, negotiated on behalf of Carranza with revolutionary leader, Pancho Villa,[5] and, while working as chargé d'affaires in Washington, D.C., he secured diplomatic recognition for Carranza's administration from the United States government.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ^ Silva Herzog, Jesús (1 July 2011). Breve historia de la Revolución mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. p. 120. ISBN 978-607-16-0717-1. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
  3. ^ Villa, Rosa Helia (31 August 2007). Itinerario de una pasión (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Penguin Random House, Grupo Editorial México. p. 202. ISBN 978-607-11-0864-7. Retrieved 29 September 2014. ¡Por Dios!, si en Washington está Eliseo Arredondo, el mismísimo yerno de don Venustiano, como su representante [...]
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Katz, Friedrich (1998). The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Palo Alto, California, United States of America: Stanford University Press. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-8047-3046-4. OCLC 162431539. Retrieved 29 September 2014.