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
Pedro Hinojosa victoriously attacked the imperialist garrison in the port of Matamoros. After the republican victory, Hinojosa stayed in the military permanently. In 1871 he joined the uprising in favor of Porfirio Diaz pursuing the Plan of La Noria against Benito Juarez, in which he was defeated and taken prisoner in Saltillo. He was able to escape and later was given amnesty by the new president Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada. Hinojosa again joined an uprising in favor of Diaz and the Plan of Tuxtepec, fighting in Matamoros, la Huasteca and the port of Tuxpam, and therefore contributing to Diaz’s victory. Diaz named