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Genaro V. Vásquez

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Genaro V Vasquez
Genaro V Vasquez

Genaro Vicente Vásquez Quiroz (10 July 1892 – 22 May 1967)[1] was a Mexican lawyer.[2] He was born in the city of Oaxaca to a Mixtec father and a Zapotec mother.[1]

Genaro V. Vásquez studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[2] He served as interim governor of Oaxaca from 7 November 1925 to 1 December 1928,[3][4] as a federal deputy from 1926 to 1928, representing the Federal District's seventh district, and as Attorney-General of the Republic from 1937 to 1940, under President Lázaro Cárdenas.[2]

He also represented Oaxaca in the Senate (1930–1934),[5] served two terms as a justice of the Supreme Court,[2] and was Mexico's plenipotentiary delegate to the seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo in 1933.[2]

He died in 1967 in either his home state[2] or in Mexico City.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c "Rescatan archivo fotográfico de la biblioteca Genaro V. Vásquez". Cuarta Plana. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Historia de la Procuraduría General de la República". Fiscalía General de la República. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. ^ Cervantes, Carlos (30 November 2017). "Genaro V. Vásquez y su legado cultural". RealPolitik. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  4. ^ Smith, Benjamin (2007). "Defending "Our Beautiful Freedom": State Formation and Local Autonomy in Oaxaca, 1930–1940". Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 23 (1): 125–153. doi:10.1525/msem.2007.23.1.125. ISSN 0742-9797. JSTOR 10.1525/msem.2007.23.1.125.
  5. ^ https://infosen.senado.gob.mx/sgsp/documentos/DIARIOS/1933_03_17-1933_12_26/1933_09_12_O.pdf