Estados Unidos Mexicanos signed twice by Porfirio Diaz - 1911 dated Mining Maps - Mexico

2 Mining maps; some with revenue stamps and 5 other documents with envelope. 2 of the 7 items shown. Signed twice printed signature of Porfirio Díaz.

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori GCB (Oaxaca de Juárez, September 15, 1830-Paris, July 2, 1915), generally cited as Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican politician, military man and dictator who served as president of Mexico on several occasions from November 28, 1876 to May 25, 1911. The time he accumulated exercising the position of president of Mexico had an unprecedented length, reaching thirty years and one hundred and five days, and this period In Mexican historiography it is called Porfiriato. Before assuming the presidency, he was a prominent military man who stood out for his participation in the Second French intervention in Mexico. He fought in the Battle of Puebla, in the Siege of Puebla, in the Battle of Miahuatlán and in the Battle of Carbonera.

On October 15, 1863, President Benito Juárez named him Division General and on the 28th of the same month he was given military command of 4 states: Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca and Tlaxcala. They highlighted his military actions in the state of Oaxaca, where he organized guerrillas against the French. On April 2, 1867, Díaz took Puebla, and on June 15 of that year he recovered Mexico City for Republican troops. He took up arms against the federal government on two occasions: the first against Benito Juárez, with the La Noria Plan, and later, against Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, developing the Tuxtepec Plan.

After the triumph of the second plan, Díaz assumed the presidency of the country on an interim basis between November 28, 1876 and December 6, 1876, and for the second time from February 17, 1877 to May 5, 1877. He exercised the constitutional position from May 5, 1877 to November 30, 1880. Subsequently, he held the presidency of the country uninterruptedly between December 1, 1884 and May 25, 1911. Convinced defender of positivist progress. Among the main characteristics of his mandate are the expansion of the railroad in Mexico, the growth of foreign investment and the development of capitalism in the Mexican economy. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_D%C3%ADaz

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