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Lomelí family
Political family
Parent familyLomellini
Place of originRepublic of Genoa
Founded
  • Arrival in Mexico
    1609, Jalisco
  • 415 years ago
FounderCarlo Lomellini (1584-1651)

The Lomelí family is a Mexican political family of Italian descent that has long been prominent in Mexican politics. The family's progenitor, merchant Carlo Lomellini immigrated from Genoa to the Mexican state of Jalisco in the early 17th century. The Lomelí family underwent a process of cultural assimilation during the viceroyalty of Nueva Galicia and the Porfiriato regimes.

History

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Colonial Era

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The Lomelí family originated from Genoa and traded with the viceroyalty New Galicia in 17th century colonial Mexico. Carlo’s father, Vincenzo Lomellini was head of the Di Lomellini & Marini Group, a trading company based in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The family settled in Los Altos de Jalisco where Carlo married Maria de Benavides. Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Durango in 1655. The Lomelí family dispersed to the rest of the Bajío region where their surname was hispanicized to "Lomelín". Carlo’s niece married Juan de Villaseñor, descendant of Miguel Hidalgo Villaseñor, Father of the Mexican War of Independence.

Porfiriato Era

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In the late 19th century, the Porfiriato regime imposed assimilation policies that rehispanicized the family’s surname to "Lomelí", as well as the surnames of Lebanese Mexicans and Southern Italian immigrants receiving land grants from the Mexican federal government. These policies were part of General Porfirio Diaz’s goal of consolidating a Catholic-Hispanic identity in Mexico.

Notable members

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  • Luis Felipe Lomelí (born 1975) is a Mexican writer and poet. He is best known for his flash fiction work "El emigrante" (The Migrant – 2005) and for the collection Todos santos de California (All Saints of California – 2002), which won the San Luis Potosí National Award for Best Short Story.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ SIL: Carlos Lomelí Bolaños (LXIII Legislatura)
  2. ^ "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved September 30, 2014.



Category:Political families of Mexico Category:Surnames of Italian origin Category:21st-century Mexican politicians Category:Living people Italian Category:North American people of Italian descent Descent

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