Alfonso Martínez Domínguez

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Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (January 7, 1922November 6, 2002) was a controversial Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). He served as a president of the PRI (19681970), senator (19881994, 19972000), mayor of Mexico City (19701971) and governor of Nuevo León (19791985).

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, 19491952) 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.