Obregon
ALVARO, a Mexican general, born in 1880 in the state of O'BRIEN Sonora. After he had obtained a scientific education he began his career as a successful farmer in 1902. In 1912 he recruited a force of Yaqui Indians and assisted Madero in gaining control of Mexico. His sympathy with the peons led him to espouse the cause of Carranza against Huerta in 1913, and again with Carranza against Villa in 1915. During these wars Obregon forged to the front as the ablest leader of the Constitutionalist armies, and due to his generalship Villa was defeated and forced into flight as an outlaw. After 1915 he co-operated with Carranza in his effort to pacify Mexico, and finally became a candidate for the Presidency of Mexico to succeed Carranza. Charging that the President was using unfair methods to defeat him in favor of his own candidate, Obregon revolted, and in May, 1920, drove Carranza from the capital. He was elected President of Mexico in October and inaugurated in December, 1920.