Fernando González Roa | |
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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 | Edmé Gutiérrez Zamora[3] |
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]
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 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]