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Biography of Adolfo López Mateos
Name: Adolfo López Mateos
Birth Date: May 26, 1910
Death Date: September 22, 1969
Place of Birth: Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
Gender: Male
Occupations: president
Adolfo López Mateos
Adolfo López Mateos (1910-1969) served as president of Mexico from 1958 to 1964, a time in which Mexico was attempting to redefine its national goals. His administration was one of the most successful of the post World War II period.Adolfo López Mateos was born in the village of Atizapán de Zaragoza in 1910, only a few months before the Mexican Revolution against Porfiro Díaz broke out. After completing his primary and secondary education in Toluca he moved to Mexico City and received his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His legal training provided his entree into politics. In 1934, during the presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas, he became a regional secretary of the Partido Nacional Revolucionario, the predecessor of today's official party, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.Moving from behind the political scene into the limelight he served in the Senate …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the textbooks on the grounds that the imposition was a totalitarian act designed to standardize the thought of the country's youth. President López Mateos refused to back down, and the books were adopted throughout the country in spite of the protests.Shortly after he left office in 1964 López Mateos suffered a severe stroke and lay in a coma until death claimed him six years later. At that time he was eulogized as a nationalist who defended Mexican interests in the world community and a humane statesman who identified with the poor and powerless at home. Further Reading Aspects of López Mateos' presidential administration can be examined in Frank Brandenburg's The Making of Modern Mexico (1964), Kenneth F. Johnson's Mexican Democracy, a Critical View (1971), and Robert E. Scott's Mexican Government in Transition (1964).Sierra, Justo, López Mateos, Mexico, D.F.: J. Sierra y H. Heftye, 1988?.
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