Amado Aguirre Santiago (February 3 or 8,BNF 1863 – August 22, 1949) was a Mexican general and politician.
Biography Aguirre was born in 1863 in San Sebastián, Jalisco, the son of Ignacio Aguirre Peña, the first municipal president of San Sebastián, and Mariana Santiago Lope. He graduated from the mining engineering program in Guadalajara. During the Mexican Revolution, he fought under General , and later joined General Álvaro Obregón. He held a number of positions in the Mexican government, at various levels. From 1916 to 1917, he was a constituent deputy, then military commander of Guadalajara, interim governor of Jalisco, member of the inspection commission of the army, senator during the 27th Congress, undersecretary of agriculture and development (, and president of the Comité Nacional Obregonista, manager of the Caja de Préstamos. He was Secretary of Communications and Public Works from 1921 to 1924, and was governor and military commander of the Federal Territory of Quintana Roo from 1924 to 1925,Mexican states-Quintana Roo ambassador to Chile and representative to Brazil and Costa Rica,Colecciónes Historicas-Amado Aguirre (Spanish) governor and military commander of the Baja California Sur district from 1927 to 1929,Mexican States-Baja California Sur and director of the Heroico Colegio Militar in 1925.directors of the Heroico Colegio Militar, SEDENAAmado Aguirre (1863–1949) (Spanish)
He died in Mexico City in 1949.
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