Juan Francisco Urquidi

Juan Francisco Urquidi
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia
In office
8 October 1923 – 21 November 1927[1]
Preceded byJosé Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz[1]
Succeeded byJulio Madero González[1]
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador
In office
5 June 1928 – 16 March 1930[2]
Preceded byJulio Madero González[2]
Succeeded byFrancisco de Asís de Icaza y León (interim)[2]
Personal details
Born
Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez

(1881-07-16)16 July 1881
Mexico City[3]
Died14 December 1938(1938-12-14) (aged 57)
Mexico City[3]
Spouse
Beatrice Mary
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(m. 1917)​
[4]
ChildrenVíctor L. Urquidi[4] Magda Urquidi de Acosta, María Catalina Urquidi Bingham
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology[5]
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Urquidi and the second or maternal family name is Márquez.

Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez (16 July 1881 – 14 December 1938)[3] was a Mexican politician and diplomat who served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia from 8 October 1923 to 21 November 1927,[1] and as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador from 5 June 1928 to 16 March 1930.[2] From 15 May to 29 October 1914, he also served as confidential agent of President Venustiano Carranza in the United States.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ a b c d "Embajadores de México en Colombia" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Embajadores de México en El Salvador" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  3. ^ a b c Sanchiz Ruiz, Javier E. "Family tree of Juan Francisco Urquidi". Geneanet. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Urquidi1998 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bazant1984 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  7. ^ Fabela, Isidro (16 December 2013). Historia diplomática de la Revolución mexicana (1912-1917) (in Spanish). Vol. 2. Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-607-16-1504-6. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Manuel Urquidi Papers". Austin, Texas: Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 13 October 2014. His brother Juan Francisco worked at the Mexican Legation in London for several years during the 1920s when Mexico was seeking Great Britain's recognition of its government. Juan Francisco became the secretary and interpreter for the Mexican American Commission of 1923, which met to resolve differences between Mexico and Washington. Towards the end of 1923 he became the Enviado Extraordinario and Ministro Plenipotenciario of Mexico in Colombia and in 1929 he was posted as Ambassador to El Salvador.