Adalberto Tejeda Olivares

Adalberto Tejeda Olivares

Sixto Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (born March 28, 1883 in Chicontepec Tejeda, † September 8, 1960 in Mexico City ) was governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the Mexican ambassador .

Life

His parents were Eutiquia Olivares from Chicontepec and Luis Tejeda Guzmán, Jalacingo. He was the firstborn and defended the inhabitants of his indigenous village. After primary school in Chicontepec, he attended the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Ingeniería . He then worked as a broker. After the assassination of Francisco Madero in 1913, he participated in the Mexican Revolution in the troops of Rafael M. Pedrajo. He was a local councilor and did not lead a group of armed farmers. In the Army of the Constitutionalists he became a lieutenant colonel and headed the general staff of Candido Aguilar, the commander of the division in the east. Venustiano Carranza appointed him in 1915as the commander of the military operations in the Huasteca Veracruzana. He became a deputy for Chicontepec for the 1917 Constituent Assembly, but military duties prevented him from attending the sessions. Therefore he was represented by the successor Enrique Meza Llorente. In 1918 Olivares was elected to the Senate. In 1920 Alvaro Obregon became president, who named Adalberto Tejeda Olivares governor of Veracruz. During his tenure as governor, he promoted rural schooling and reorganized the state's administration. He promoted land reform against latifundists and supported the establishment of the Liga de Comunidades Agrarias and the tenant movement of Herón Proal. He supported the project of the Chamber of Commerce of Jalapa : A stadium with a grass stand, which opened on May 7, 1922. He has faced problems from oil companies violating Article 27 of the Constitution and exploiting resources in the northeast of the state. He also turned against the rebellion of Adolfo de la Huerta . At the end of 1924, Plutarco Elías Calles appointed him Minister of Communications and Public Works and Minister of Government. In this office he led the Guerra Cristera . In 1934 he was a presidential candidate for the Partido Comunista Mexicano . When Lázaro Cárdenas del Río became president, Sixto Adalberto Tejeda Olivares entered the foreign service. In 1948 he was promoted to brigadier general.

predecessor	Office	successor
Armando Deschamps	Governor of Veracruz 1920 to 1924	Heriberto Jara
Gilberto Valenzuela	Minister of Communications and Public Works 1924	Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
Gilberto Valenzuela	Government Minister 1925 to 1928	Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
Abel S. Rodríguez	Governor of Veracruz from 1928 to 1932	Gonzalo Vázquez Vela

predecessor	Office	successor
Marte R. Gomez Segura	Mexican Ambassador to Paris July 10, 1936 to December 1, 1937	Leobardo C. Ruiz Camarillo
Marte R. Gomez Segura	Mexican Ambassador in Vienna February 20, 1937 to December 1, 1937	Carlos Darío Ojeda Rovira
Leobardo C. Ruiz Camarillo	Mexican Ambassador to Madrid March 6, 1938 to January 1, 1940. At the end of 1939 diplomatic relations with Madrid were interrupted.	Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Ramon P. de Negri	Mexican Ambassador to Ankara March 6, 1938 to December 31, 1939, seat was Madrid.	Antonio Sánchez Acevedo

predecessor	Office	successor
Emmanuel Fernández	Mexican Ambassador in Lisbon May 9, 1938 to January 1, 1940, seat was Madrid.	Francisco Ortiz Monasterio y Popham
Carlos Esteban Peon del Valle y Varona	Mexican Ambassador to La Paz July 11, 1942 to October 1, 1948	José María Ortiz Tirado

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Jürgen Buchenau, William H. Beezley, State governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: portraits in conflict courage and corruption
2. ↑ Embajadores de México
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6. ↑ Embajadores de México