Adolfo López Mateos
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Adolfo López Mateos was a centre-left Mexican politician and lawyer who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Previously, he served as Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare from 1952 to 195
López Mateos in 1963
López Mateos, c.1920s
National Museum of Anthropology building, opened in 1964
President Adolfo López Mateos next to the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the President John F. Kennedy, during their visit to Mexico in 1962
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
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Adolfo Tomás Ruiz Cortines was a Mexican politician who served as President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, he previously served as Governor of Veracruz
Adolfo López Mateos
…Mexican Revolution) in 1941. López Mateos served as senator for the State of Mexico from 1946 to 1952 and Secretary of Labor during the administration of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines from 1952 to 1957. He secured the party's presidential nomination and won in the 1958 general election. Declaring his government to be "far left within…
Ruiz Cortines during his presidency
María Cortines Cotera with her children María and Adolfo in a photograph taken in 1895.
Ruiz Cortines at the age of 10, c. 1899.
Pennant for Ruiz Cortines's campaign