Military Figure. General Jesús Carranza Garza was a Mexican soldier who participated in the Mexican Revolution, brother of Venustiano Carranza, a member of the Northeast Army Corps, and member of the Constitutional Army, in which he shared command with Pablo González Garza. He took up arms along with several young people from Coahuila before the reelection attempt of the Governor of Coahuila José María Garza Galán in 1890. It was until 1908 that he returned to politics, when the Partido Democrático Coahuilense was organized, in support of General Bernardo Reyes. In 1909 he participated in Venustiano Carranza's unsuccessful independent campaign for governor of his state. He took up arms against Porfirio Díaz, and then reached the rank of colonel. When Francisco I. Madero was assassinated in The Ten Tragic Days, he fought against General Victoriano Huerta in the ranks of Pablo González Garza, reaching the rank of General. At the Aguascalientes Convention he was represented by Gregorio Osuna. He supported Venustiano Carranza against the provisions of the Convention, withdrawing his representative. His brother Venustiano commissioned him to recruit and organize constitutional forces, as chief of operations on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He was taken prisoner by Alfonso Santibáñez, who shot him along with his General Staff, which included his sixth son Abelardo Carranza Strasburger and his nephew Captain Ignacio Peraldí Carranza.
Military Figure. General Jesús Carranza Garza was a Mexican soldier who participated in the Mexican Revolution, brother of Venustiano Carranza, a member of the Northeast Army Corps, and member of the Constitutional Army, in which he shared command with Pablo González Garza. He took up arms along with several young people from Coahuila before the reelection attempt of the Governor of Coahuila José María Garza Galán in 1890. It was until 1908 that he returned to politics, when the Partido Democrático Coahuilense was organized, in support of General Bernardo Reyes. In 1909 he participated in Venustiano Carranza's unsuccessful independent campaign for governor of his state. He took up arms against Porfirio Díaz, and then reached the rank of colonel. When Francisco I. Madero was assassinated in The Ten Tragic Days, he fought against General Victoriano Huerta in the ranks of Pablo González Garza, reaching the rank of General. At the Aguascalientes Convention he was represented by Gregorio Osuna. He supported Venustiano Carranza against the provisions of the Convention, withdrawing his representative. His brother Venustiano commissioned him to recruit and organize constitutional forces, as chief of operations on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. He was taken prisoner by Alfonso Santibáñez, who shot him along with his General Staff, which included his sixth son Abelardo Carranza Strasburger and his nephew Captain Ignacio Peraldí Carranza.
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