Juan Gil Preciado

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Juan Gil Preciado (born June 26, 1909 in Juchitlán , Jalisco ; † January 19, 1999 ) was a Mexican politician of the Party of Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) , who was among other things governor of the state of Jalisco from 1959 to 1964 and between 1964 and in 1970 was Minister of Food and Agriculture ( Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento ) .

Life

Professional career, MP and ministerial official

Gil Preciado was the son of Anselmo Gil Lomeli, who was mayor of Juchitlán in 1927, and his wife María de la Luz Preciado García. He completed his school education in his hometown Juchitlán and in Guadalajara . However, he had to drop out of school to work before he could later continue his education at the international school in Guadalajara. He was then between 1927 and 1928 rector of the secondary school in Ocotlán and professor of mathematics at the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG). In 1929 he joined the 32nd Regiment of the Army of the Armed Forces as a major, where he worked as a trainer until 1932.

In 1931 Gil Preciado also worked as the private secretary of Ruperto García de Alba, the then governor of the state of Baja California Sur , and was then between 1931 and 1932 during his tenure as general secretary and chief official of the government of this state. In 1935 he was a student leader at the 2nd Congress of Socialist Students and founder of the Revolutionary Youth Bloc of Jalisco in an alliance with the Socialist Students of Western Mexico. In addition, he served as secretary for foreign affairs on the board of the Confederation of Mexican Youth (Jóvenes Mexicanos) , whose president was Carlos Alberto Madrazo Becerra and its secretary was Enrique Ramírez y Ramírez . In 1935 he was also the founder and first rector of the workers' and peasant school and in 1936 director for the expansion of the Universidad de Guadalajara and also general secretary of the UdeG polytechnic. In 1938 he was chairman of the committee of the National Revolutionary Party PNR (Partido Nacional Revolucionario) .

In 1940 Gil Preciado ran successfully for the PNR for a seat in the House of Representatives (Cámara de Diputados) of the Congress of the Union (Congreso de la Union) and represented in this until 1943 the 13th constituency of the state of Jalisco. During his membership in parliament he was a member of the tourism committee and also became secretary of the House of Representatives in September 1940. In 1943 he was briefly head of the planning department of the Ministry of Agriculture. He then became First Organization Secretary in 1943 and a member of the Council of the National Confederation of People's Organizations CNOP (Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares) , which belonged to the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (PRM), which emerged from the PNR . In 1944 he took over the post of General Delegate of the PRM in the state of Tamaulipas . From 1946 to 1952 he was head of the information department of the Mexican-American Commission for the Control of Foot and Mouth Disease and from 1948 to 1952 he was private secretary to the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Oscar Flores Sánchez .

Governor and Minister

In 1952 he was president of the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) in the state of Jalisco, between 1953 and 1957 a member of the legislative assembly of Jalisco and from 1953 to 1956 also chairman of the committee of the PRI in that state. At the same time he was the successor of Jorge Matute Remus from 1955 until his replacement by Fernando Zamora Cruz in 1958 mayor of Guadalajara. On March 1, 1959, he released Agustín Yáñez as governor of the state of Jalisco and remained in this position until December 1, 1964, whereupon José de Jesús Muñoz Limón took over. During his tenure, plans began to set up the Bosque de la Primavera .

After Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was elected president , Gil Preciado was appointed Minister of Food and Agriculture ( Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento ) on December 1, 1964, succeeding Julian Rodríguez Adame . He held the post of finance minister until his replacement by Manuel Bernardo Aguirre in 1970 shortly before the end of the term of office of President Díaz Ordaz. In 1970 he was one of the possible candidates of the Party of Institutionalized Revolution PRI ( Partido Revolucionario Institucional ) for the presidential election, for which Luis Echeverría Álvarez was ultimately able to prevail as a PRI candidate. In 1978 he was General Delegate of the National Executive Committee of the PRI.

The place Juan Gil Preciado in the Municipio Villa Corona was named in his honor. His son Juan Ricardo Gil Elizondo, who was Undersecretary for Urban Development and Housing in the then Ministry for the Federal District of Mexico City (Departamento del Distrito Federal) between 1994 and 1997, went from his marriage to Aída Elizondo .

publication

  • Cuarto informe de gobierno que bark ante la H. XLIV legislatura el ciudadano gobernador constitucional del estado de Jalisco Juan Gil Preciado, 1º. de febrero de 1963 , 1963

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roderic Ai Camp: The Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico , pp. 57, 59, Oxford University Press, 2010, ISBN 0-1997-8080-3
  2. ↑ Julia Tuñón: Historia de un sueño: el Hollywood tapatío , p. 101, UNAM, 1986, ISBN 9-6889-5029-7
  3. ^ John Walton: Elites and Economic Development: Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities , University of Texas Press, 2014, ISBN 1-4773-0340-5
  4. ^ Mexican States: Governors (rulers.org)
  5. ^ Leslie Bethell (editor): Mexico since Independence , p. 366, Cambridge University Press, 1991, ISBN 1-3165-8356-2
personal data
SURNAME Gil Preciado, Juan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Juchitlán , Jalisco
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1999