[1] He fought in Oaxaca against the insurgents during the Plan de la Noria aimed at overthrowing President Benito Juarez.

[1] In October of that year he was appointed governor and military commander of Sinaloa and, together with Ramón Corona, participated in hunting down Manuel Lozada, which earned him the rank of division general in September 1873.

He was seriously wounded in the throat in a sword duel in Mexico City on 18 May 1880, by the distinguished Yucatecan gentleman Don Eduardo González Gutiérrez.

He was appointed governor of the Federal District on 3 December 1884, a position he held until his death on 19 April 1893 in Mexico City.

[1] By order of President Porfirio Díaz, his remains were interred on 22 April 1893 at the Rotunda of Illustrious Persons.