Cañedo, Francisco (1839–1909)

Francisco Cañedo (b. 1839; d. 5 June 1909), governor of the state of Sinaloa. One of many migrants from neighboring Tepic, Cañedo began work as an errand boy and then clerk in large merchant houses, first in Mazatlán and then in Culiacán. Aided by marriage into the notable Batiz family, by the patronage of Culiacán's leading political family (the Vegas), and by his cultivation of close ties with Porfirio Díaz, Cañedo rose to preeminence in Sinaloan politics through the 1870s. Serving as governor (1877–1880, 1884–1888, 1892–1909), he assumed sole control of the state government thereafter until his death. He incorporated Mazatlán's notables into his political circle, ending the bitter and destructive rivalry between the state's two cities. Cañedo followed Porfirista policies faithfully. He consolidated control by eliminating all municípios (municipalities) but the district seats, which were firmly controlled by the prefects he appointed.

See alsoMexico: 1810–1910 .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Eustaquio Buelna, Apuntes para la historia de Sinaloa, 1821–1882 (1924; 2d ed., 1966).

Amado González Dávila, Diccionario geográfico, histórico, y estadístico del Estado de Sinaloa (1959), pp. 82-86.

Stuart F. Voss, "Towns and Enterprise in Northwestern Mexico: A History of Urban Elites in Sonora and Sinaloa, 1830–1910," (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1972), pp. 126-154, 343-444.

Additional Bibliography

Figueroa Díaz, José María. Los gobernadores de Sinaloa, 1831–1996. Culiacán: Imp. Once Ríos Editores, 1996.

                                          Stuart F. Voss