(since renamed Zapotitlán de Vadillo), and as a young boy moved to Colima.
He worked as a teacher in Colima and served as the director of the Ramón R. de la Vega school.
After Victoriano Huerta's 1913 coup (the overthrowing Madero's government), Vadillo joined a group of students from Colima to fight at Mazatlán on the side of the revolutionaries trying to end Huerta's dictatorship.
During his tenure as Governor of Jalisco, Vadillo signed the communal land grant for the City of Puerto Vallarta.
[3] Basilio Vadillo is interred in Guadalajara at the Rotunda de los Hombres Ilustres.