Belisario Domínguez
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[[Image:Belisario Domínguez.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Monument to Belisario Dominguez in the Congress of Mexico]]
'''Belisario Domínguez''' (b. [[April 25]], [[1863]] in [[Comitán]], [[Chiapas]] – d. [[October 7]], [[1913]] in [[Mexico City]]) was a [[Mexico|Mexican]] physician and liberal politician who served as senator and gave a memorable [[Speech (public address)|speech]] in the [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] against the dictator [[Victoriano Huerta]] for which he was murdered.
Domínguez was born to Cleofas Domínguez and María del Pilar Palencia. His grandfather, Don Quirino Domínguez y Ulloa had been vice-governor of Chiapas.
He studied [[high school]] in [[San Cristóbal de las Casas]], Chiapas. In 1879 he went to [[Paris]] where we studied [[medicine]], he lived in Paris for 10 years. In 1889 he returned to Mexico and in 1890 we married Delina Zebadúa with whom he had four children. His wife died at a young age.
In 1909 he was elected mayor of Comitán. In 1912] Leopoldo Gout and him ran for a seat in the Senate (Domínguez as substitute senator), when Gout died, Domínguez replaced him. In 1913 he gave a speech in the [[Congress of Mexico|Congress]] against the dictator [[Victoriano Huerta]] and as a result he was murdered in Mexico City by Gilberto Márquez, Alberto Quiroz, José Hernández Ramírez and Gabriel Huerta.
The [[Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor|Medal of Honor Belisario Domínguez]] is named after him.
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[[Category:Mexican senators]]
[[Category:Mayors of places in Mexico]]
[[Category:Assassinated Mexican politicians]]
[[Category:People from Chiapas]]
[[Category:Mexican physicians]]
[[Category:1863 births]]
[[Category:1913 deaths]]
[[Category:Mexican democracy activists]]
[[category:People of the Mexican Revolution]]
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