Pedro Hinojosa nomination to federal elections, Hinojosa was elected a general delegate for the Federal Electoral District I of Chihuahua to the II Legislature of 1863. Hinojosa was to move to Mexico City to carry out this office from May 1861 to May 1863, but while traveling through the city of Durango and due to the illness of the governor of that state, General Jose Maria Patoni, the Congress of Durango named Hinojosa governor, a position in which he served from July to August 1861. Hinojosa thereafter fulfilled the office of federal delegate until December 22, 1861, when president Benito Juarez named
José María Hinojosa Lasarte him as "their man". Certain progressivist authors present him as a martyr who dedicated his life to fighting imperialism, nationalism and the church; others imply his homosexuality. The , where Hinojosa was executed, was doted in 2014 with a monument-mausoleum to honor "those who gave their life in defense of freedom and democracy and whose remains rest here or in other sites". Hinojosa has never been mentioned in a spate of press notes related, some of which noted a construction recording "la barbarie de la represión franquista". José María Hinojosa Lasarte José María Hinojosa Lasarte (1904 – 1936) was a