Adolfo López Mateos
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Adolfo López Mateos in 1963.
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 48th President of Mexico |
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In office 1 December 1958 – 30 November 1964 |
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| Preceded by | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
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Adolfo López Mateos 26 May 1909 Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, Mexico |
| Died | 22 September 1969 (aged 60) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
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Eva Sámano Angelina Gutiérrez |
| Relatives | Esperanza López Mateos (sister) |
| Alma mater | Scientific and Literary Institute of Toluca |
Adolfo López Mateos (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ˈlopez maˈteos]; 26 May 1909 – 22 September 1969) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964.
As president, he nationalized electric companies, created the National Commission for Free Textbooks (1959), and promoted the creation of prominent museums such as the Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Declaring his political philosophy to be "left within the Constitution," López Mateos was the first left-wing politician to hold the presidency since Lázaro Cárdenas.
López Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza to Mariano Gerardo López y Sánchez Roman, a dentist, and Elena Mateos y Vega, a teacher. According to official records, a small town in the state of México, though at a young age his family moved to Mexico City upon his father's death. Nevertheless, there is a birth certificate and several testimonies archived at El Colegio de México that place his birth on 10 September 1909, in Patzicía, Guatemala.
In 1929, he graduated from the Scientific and Literary Institute of Toluca, where he was a delegate and student leader of the Socialist Labor Party.
Early in his career, he served as the private secretary to Col. Filiberto Gómez, the governor of the state of Mexico. In 1929, as a speaker he supported the presidential campaign of José Vasconcelos, an opposition candidate, against the presidential campaign of Pascual Ortiz Rubio. In 1934, he became the private secretary of the president of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR), Carlos Riva Palacio.
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