El Paso Mayor. Served as Mayor of El Paso, Texas from 1910 to 1915. He made national headlines when in an El Paso hotel he disarmed Francisco (Pancho) Villa who had vowed to kill General Giuseppe Garibaldi. With the Mexican Revolution spilling over into El Paso, he demanded help from Present Taft, which was finally forthcoming.
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