Adolfo López Mateos

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Adolfo López Mateos
Adolfo López Mateos
President of Mexico
In office
December 1, 1958 – November 30, 1964
Preceded by Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Succeeded by Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Born 26 May 1909(1909-05-26)
Atizapán de Zaragoza, Edomex
Died 22 September 1969 (aged 60)
Mexico City
Nationality Mexican
Political party Institutional Revolutionary Party
Spouse Eva Sámano

Adolfo López Mateos (26 May 1909 – 22 September 1969) was President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

López Mateos called the meeting that led to the creation of the World Boxing Council.

[edit] Life

López Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza, a small town in the state of México, though at a young age his family moved to Mexico City upon his father's death. 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. That year he supported the presidential campaign of José Vasconcelos, an opposition candidateas an orator for the presidential campaign of Miguel Alemán from 1931 to 1934, and filled a number of bureacratic positions from then until 1941, when he met Isidro Fabela. Fabela helped him into a position as the director of the Literary Institute of Toluca from after Fabela resigned the post to join the International Court of Justice. He served until 1952, when he became the Secretary of Labor under president Adolfo Ruiz Cortines. In 1958, he was elected president of Mexico, and served until 1964. Plagued with migraines during his adult life, he was diagnosed with several cerebral aneurysms and, after several years in a coma, he died in 1969.


López was the first chairman of the Organisation Committee of the 1968 Summer Olympics until 1964 year that leaves the presidency.


Vasconcelos political opponent was Pascual Ortiz Rubio, not Miguel Aleman, ( he was president from 1946 to 1952)

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Preceded by
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines		 President of Mexico
1958–1964		 Succeeded by
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
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Mexican Post-Revolution Presidents