Fernando González 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]

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 article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is González and the second or maternal family name is Roa.

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 Constituent 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]

Works

• El problema rural de México (1917).
• El problema ferrocarrilero y la compañía de los Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (1917).
• El aspecto agrario de la revolución mexicana (1919).

Notes and references

1. "Diplomatic Representation for Mexico (United Mexican States)". United States Department of State. 11 January 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
3. 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.

External links

• Works by or about Fernando González Roa at Internet Archive