Abraham González

Abraham González Casavantes (June 7, 1864 – March 7, 1913) was the provisional and constitutional governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua during the early period of the Mexican Revolution. He was the political mentor to the revolutionary Pancho Villa, whom he had met and befriended before the revolution. González was born on his family's estates in Basúchil, in Guerrero Municipality, Chihuahua. He was a member of one of the richest and best-educated families in the state (the González family was believed to be descended from European nobility). He was educated at the University of Notre Dame, in Notre Dame, Indiana. He was one of the main leaders of the Maderista Junta Revolucionaria Mexicana, the movement which opposed the...