Francisco José Madero González

Madero was born in San Antonio, Texas, in the United States on October 16, 1930, and raised in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila.[1][3] He was the seventh child of Mexican General Raúl Madero and Dora González Sada.[1] His parents had fled to the United States after the Mexican Revolution.[3] His paternal uncle, Francisco I. Madero, served as the President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913.[1][4]

Francisco José Madero married María Luisa Fernández del Castillo, in 1953. The couple had seven children - Francisco José, Miguel Agustín Segundo, Jorge Raúl, María Luisa, Bernardo, Ignacio, and Rodolfo.[1]

Madero began his career as an accountant.[3]

Madero was the chairman of the local Institutional Revolutionary Party's Torreón municipal committee from 1962 to 1963.[1] He next served as the head of the state Public Registry of Property from October 1963 until September 1975.[1]

Madero served as the 54th Municipal President (mayor) of Torreón from 1976 to 1978.[3] He was elected as a federal deputy of the Chamber of Deputies representing Coahuila, serving in the LI Legislature from September 1, 1979, until August 1, 1982.[1] He took a leave of absence from the Chamber of Deputies in 1981 to become interim Governor of Coahuila following the resignation of his predecessor, former Governor Oscar Flores Tapia.[1][4] He served as the Governor of Coahuila for a brief tenure from August 11, 1981, until November 30, 1981.[1][4] Madero later became a Senator within the Senate of the Republic during the LII and LIII federal Legislatures.[1] His last public office was as the head of the Jefe del Departamento de Promociones Social de Infonavit from 1991 to 1993.[4]

He became the director of the General del Instituto Coahuilense para las Personas Adultas Mayores in 2002.[4]

On February 16, 2013, Francisco José Madero González was found unconscious in his bedroom at 8 AM by one of his servants. Madero was immediately taken to the hospital, where he spent five nights.

Madero's death was confirmed by Coahuila Governor Rubén Moreira Valdez, via Twitter[4] on Thursday at 1 PM. His funeral was held the following evening at 4 PM; he died from pneumonia at the age of 82.[1][4][2]