Fernando González Roa

Fernando González Roa
Ambassador of Mexico to the United States
In office
21 February 1933[1] – 31 December 1934[2]
Preceded by José Manuel Puig Casauranc[2]
Succeeded by Francisco Castillo Nájera[2]
Personal details
Born 1880
Salamanca, Guanajuato
Died 1936 (aged 55–56)
Nationality Mexican
Spouse(s) Edmé Gutiérrez Zamora[3]
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is González and the second or maternal family name is Roa.

Fernando González Roa (1880–1936) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as undersecretary of the Interior and as ambassador of Mexico to the United States (1933–1934).[2][1]

González was born in Salamanca, Guanajuato, and started his political career as secretary of Government of Guanajuato (1911-1913).[4] After the 1913 coup d'état, he supported General Victoriano Huerta —a fact that would beset him during the Constitutional Congress of 1916–1917.[5] His close relationship with both Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón helped him to re-establish his political career.[6]

As a diplomat, González represented his country in the 6th Pan-American Conference of Havana (1928), in the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation between Bolivia and Paraguay (assembled in Washington, D.C., in 1929) and in both the Mexico-France and Mexico-United States Claims Commissions.[3] His nomination to the later was privately contested by Luis L. León, secretary of Agriculture, who wrote a telegram to President Obregón alerting him that, in his opinion, despite of Gonzalez' eloquence and erudition, he lacked initiative, talent and political expertise.[7]

Aside from his political and diplomatic activities, González Roa served in the executive board of National Railways of Mexico and the Bank of Mexico; as member of the National Banking Commission and the Hague Permanent Court of International Arbitration; and as professor of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Free School of Law.[3]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Diplomatic Representation for Mexico (United Mexican States)". United States Department of State. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Martin, Percy Alvin; da Silveira Soares Cardoso, Manoel (1935). Who's Who in Latin America: A Biographical Dictionary of the Outstanding Living Men and Women of Spanish America and Brazil. Palo Alto, California, USA: Stanford University Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-8047-2315-2. OCLC 459630832. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ↑ Rionda Ramírez, Luis Miguel (1992). Y jalaron pa'l norte: migración, agrarismo y agricultura en un pueblo michoacano: Copándaro de Jiménez (in Spanish). Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico: El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-968-29-4509-0. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Manuel González Oropeza in Galeana, Patricia (2011). La revolución en los estados de la República Méxicana. Mexico City, Mexico: Siglo XXI. p. 150. ISBN 978-607-03-0349-4. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  6. ↑ Pineda Gómez, Francisco (2013). Ejército Libertador: 1915 (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Ediciones Era. pp. 176–178. ISBN 978-607-445-263-1. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Castro, Pedro (2011). Álvaro Obregón: Fuego y cenizas de la Revolución Mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Ediciones Era. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-607-445-096-5. Retrieved 10 October 2014.