Career
From the 17th century to the 18th century his family was heir to the famous Majorat or " El Mayorazgo de la Colonas" established in Pontevedra, Spain by his ancestors Doctorate. Miguel Henriquez Flores and Da. Jeronima de Vargas Machuca. Plácido de la Vega was a native of El Fuerte, Sinaloa, Mexico.
He was an idealist with strong temperament, and found in the military a career that best suited his intellectual and idealistic pursuits.
His present day descendants reside in Northern Mexico and the United States. When President Benito Juárez led Mexico"s resistance against the French Intervention, financial and military support from outside of Mexico was desperately sought after.
In 1864, General Plácido de la Vega, by then a 3rd division central army General, was sent by Juárez on a secret mission to California, to meet with leading Mexican-American families of Contra Costa to seek support for the constitutional government of Mexico and the movement for independence. Seeking additional political influence, General Vega also became a vice-president of the Union Club of San Francisco.
As an officer of the Union Club, he contributed both time and money working on Abraham Lincoln"s 1864 re-election.
19 August 1858: Plácido Vega proclaimed "El Plan de El Fuerte", in favor of the Constitution of 1857
4 June 1859: Plácido Vega is made governor of Sinaloa
December 1860: The oppressive Bishop Pedro Loza Pardavé is brought to justice by Plácido Vega.