Vicente Fox Quesada
| Vicente Fox | |
|---|---|
 |
|
 55th President of Mexico |
|
|
In office 1 December 2000 – 30 November 2006 |
|
| Preceded by | Ernesto Zedillo |
| Succeeded by | Felipe Calderón |
| Governor of Guanajuato | |
|
In office 25 September 1995 – 25 September 1999 |
|
| Preceded by | Carlos Medina Plascencia |
| Succeeded by | Ramón Martín Huerta |
| Co–President of Centrist Democrat International alongside Pier Ferdinando Casini |
|
|
Assumed office 2006 |
|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Vicente Fox Quesada 2 July 1942 Mexico City |
| Political party | National Action |
| Spouse(s) |
Lilian de la Concha (m. 1969; div. 1990) Marta Sahagún (m. 2001) |
| Alma mater |
Universidad Iberoamericana Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
| Signature |  |
Vicente Fox Quesada (American Spanish: [biˈsente ˈfoks keˈsaða]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who was President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 under the National Action Party (PAN). He is also the Co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of center-right political parties.
Fox was elected President of Mexico in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1910 and the first one in 71 years to defeat, with 42 percent of the vote, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
After serving as president of Mexico for six years, President Fox returned to his home state of Guanajuato, where he resides with his wife and family. Since leaving the presidency, Vicente Fox has been involved in public speaking and the development of the Vicente Fox Center of Studies, Library and Museum.
The alleged increase in his patrimony has raised suspicions of illegal enrichment. He has been excluded from National Action Party activities in 2013.
Vicente Fox was born in Mexico City on 2 July 1942, the second of nine children. His father was José Luis Fox Pont, a native-born Mexican, and his mother was Mercedes Quesada Etxaide, a Basque immigrant from San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, in Spain. José Fox's paternal grandfather was born Joseph Louis Fuchs in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of German Catholic immigrants, Louis Fuchs and Catherina Elisabetha Flach, of Strasbourg, now in France. The "Fuchs" surname was changed from German during the 1870s to its English equivalent, "Fox". The family was unaware of its German origins and they believed the Fox family had their origins in Ireland until it was discovered otherwise later in Fox's life.
...
Wikipedia