Emilio Portes Gil
| Emilio Portes Gil | |
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 41st President of Mexico |
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In office 1 December 1928 – 4 February 1930 |
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| Preceded by | Plutarco Elías Calles |
| Succeeded by | Pascual Ortiz Rubio |
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3 October 1890 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas |
| Died | 10 December 1978 (aged 88) Mexico DF |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
| Spouse(s) | Carmen García (1905-1979) |
Emilio Cándido Portes Gil (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈmiljo ˈportes xil]; 3 October 1890 – 10 December 1978) was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930. He served following the assassination of president-elect General Álvaro Obregón, who had been president 1920-1924. Since the Mexican Constitution of 1917 forbade re-election of a serving president, the out-going president Plutarco Elías Calles could not formally become president. Portes Gil became president, but Calles, the "Jefe Máximo", retained effective political power during what is known as the Maximato.
Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico. Although his grandfather had been a prominent politician in Tamaulipas, Portes Gil's father died when Emilio was young and he and his widowed mother lived in straitened circumstances. Portes Gil received certification as a school teacher, with the aid of a state grant. He sought to study law.
He was in law school during the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution and in late 1914 he allied himself with "First Chief" Venustiano Carranza, head of the Constitutionalist faction, who would assume the presidency of the country the following May. When he graduated from law school in 1915, he had already begun his career in the public administration with a posting in the Constitutionalist faction's Department of Military Justice.
For Portes Gil, he became part of the Sonoran generals of the Constitutionalist Army, particularly Álvaro Obregón, who had defeated Pancho Villa's forces and eliminated them as a political or military factor in Mexico after 1915, and Plutarco Elías Calles. Portes Gil demonstrated skills as a lawyer and administrator, which catapulted him into the presidency of Mexico when Obregón was assassinated in 1928.
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