Career
Gaxiola taught in superior-level institutions of law in the Estado de México. As diplomat he was adviser of the Legation of Mexico in Madrid. From September 11, 1919, to March 8, 1920, he was acting Governor of the State of Mexico, while Agustín Millán Vivero, the original governor, accompanied President Venustiano Carranza, when the rebellion in Agua Prieta exploded.