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
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
Miguel Alemán Valdés
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Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. He was the first civilian president after a string of revolutionary generals.
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
…Camacho and worked as Governor of Veracruz from 1944 to 1948, a position he left to become Secretariat of the Interior during the administration of Miguel Alemán Valdés. Ruiz Cortines protested as presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1951 and was elected a year later, after winning the…
Miguel Alemán Valdés, c. 1946-52
Miguel Alemán Valdés, president of Mexico (left) and Harry S. Truman, president of the United States (right) in Washington, D.C.
Miguel Alemán Valdés. President of Mexico.
Alemán Valdés (front row, center) and his cabinet.