Alfonso Martínez Domínguez
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Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (January 7, 1922 – November 6, 2002) was a controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). He served as a president of the PRI (1968 – 1970), senator (1988 – 1994, 1997 – 2000), mayor of Mexico City (1970 – 1971) and governor of Nuevo León (1979 – 1985).
Martínez Domínguez was the son of Alfonso Martínez de la Garza and Margarita Domínguez Gil Samaniego. He graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico with a bachelor's degree in law and joined the PRI in 1943.
He served as secretary general of the federal bureaucrats union (FSTSE, 1949 – 1952) and got elected to the Chamber of Deputies in three different occasions.
Sources: Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.