José López Portillo y Rojas
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José López Portillo y Rojas (May 26, 1850 – May 22, 1923), born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was a Mexican lawyer, politician and man of letters. He served as Governor of Jalisco in 1911 and as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in 1914 for coup leader and brief Mexican President Victoriano Huerta, during the United States occupation of Veracruz. He served as Director of the Mexican Academy of Language from 1916 to 1923.
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His grandson José López Portillo y Pacheco, was the president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
Selected publications
- Novels
- La Parcela (1898)
- Los Precursores (1909)
- Fuertes y débiles (1919)
- La Horma de Su Zapato
- Essays and stories
- Seis Leyendas (1883)
- Novelas Cortas (1900)
- Sucesos y Novelas Cortas (1903)
- Historias, Historietas y Cuentecillos (1918)
References
- José López Portillo y Rojas (SRE biography)
External links
- 1850 births
- 1923 deaths
- 19th-century Mexican male writers
- 20th-century Mexican politicians
- Animal welfare workers
- Anti-bullfighting activists
- Governors of Jalisco
- Members of the Mexican Academy of Language
- Politicians from Guadalajara, Jalisco
- Secretaries of foreign affairs of Mexico
- Writers from Guadalajara, Jalisco