Who served the shortest presidency in the world? It lasted less than 1 hour.

Who vetted this Q&A? The penultimate sentence reads, "General Huerta then allowed Lascurain to become president and appointed him next in line to be president." Confusing to say the least. It should read, "General Huerta then allowed Lascurain to become president and appointed HIMSELF next in line to be president." Followed by, "After Lascurain's resignation, Huerta became the President of Mexico." This makes more sense, doesn't it?

He probably was the president with the longest name as well! !

Lexi, not really. Huerta didn't appoint himself. You know, just Google it.

Ed Taber, even better...he walked away with his life.

William Laughlin, On 19 February 1913, General Victoriano Huerta overthrew Madero. Lascuráin was one of the people who convinced Madero to resign the presidency while he was being held prisoner in the National Palace and claimed that his life was in danger if he refused. Under the 1857 Constitution of Mexico, the vice-president, the attorney general, the foreign secretary, and the interior secretary stood in line to the presidency. As well as Madero, Huerta had ousted Vice-President José María Pino Suárez and Attorney General Adolfo Valles Baca.[3] To give the coup d'état some appearance of legality, he had Lascuráin, as foreign secretary, assume the presidency, who would then appoint him as his interior secretary, making Huerta next in line to the presidency, and then resign.

That didn’t make sense at all! Thank you @William Laughlin, you explained the confusion very well 😆

Gabriel Pate, lol You are probably right there, Hehe.

Very odd explanation.

Wow! Did he get the full pension and benefits like a one term American Congressman, woman, whatever?

Humberto Carrasco, I am sick of repeating myself as regards to your comments, please stop using cap locks for every letter. Last time I shall type this, maybe I am the only one who gets irritated by this, from now on , I shall stop my fingers from typing about something that irritates me. I do apologise to anyone who reads this as I know I am being pedantic and boring.

Humberto Carrasco, OH, OK!

williamrlaughlin, I don't know, let's ask Tony!

Fred Zeb Fudpucker, Pedro was the first name with Lascarain (Paternal) and Paredes (maternal) last names. However, as a Spanish custom on naming a child they used to impose a string of names in between.

Rita AnDrew and George Oliver Prince, he was 56 not 60 or 96. He was 96 when he died.

No idea

LASCURAIN PAREDES WAS PREVIOUSLY PAID BY VICTORIANO HUERTA TO BE THE ONE FROM WHOM HIM WILL RECEIVED THE PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO.LASCURAIN PAREDES ONLY LAST 45 MINUTES AS A PRESIDENT.

George Oliver Prince, Read it again. He was 60 when he became pres. for one hour. It happened in 1913.