\"47th Pres of Mexico\" Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Signed TLS Dated 1958 For Sale

Up for sale the "47th President of Mexico" Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Signed TLS Dated 1958. 

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Adolfo Tomás Ruiz ˈrwis koɾˈtines] (

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December 30, 1889 – December 3, 1973) was a Mexican politician who served

as 47th President of Mexico from

1952 to 1958, as the candidate for the Institutional

Revolutionary Party (PRI). Unlike his predecessor as

president Miguel Alemán and his

successor Adolfo López Mateos, he

had participated in the Mexican Revolution. He was

one of the oldest presidents of Mexico, perhaps best remembered for granting women

the right to vote in presidential elections and stimulating the Mexican economy

during the period known as the Mexican Miracle. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines was born on December 30,

1889, in the state of Veracruz. His parents were Adolfo Ruiz

Tejada (1859–1890), the governor of Veracruz at that time, and María Cortines

Cotera (1859–1932). Ruiz's father, Adolfo Ruiz Tejada, died when he was young.

Then Adolfo was raised and educated by his mother.[1] His mother taught him to read and

write at the age of 3. Later, he entered a school directed by Joaquín Jerónimo

Díaz and Florencio Veyro. At the age twelve, he attended the Instituto de

Veracruz, where he studied accounting. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines pursued his secondary

educational studies at the Colegio de los Jesuitas, which was considered the

best school in the state of Veracruz. Adolfo learned from his mentors about

liberalism, a political principle he would apply during his entire political

career. In addition, he acquired his fanatical interest in baseball there. He

always wanted to study at university, but circumstances never permitted him to

do so. At the age of 16, he was forced to abandon his formal studies. Finding

himself the head of his family, he found a job as an accounting assistant at a

commercial clothing enterprise to support his relatives.

In

1909, Ruiz read the book La sucesión presidencial de 1910 (The

Presidential Succession of 1910) published that year by Francisco I. Madero, the

leader of the opposition against the presidency of General Díaz. This book motivated Ruiz's interest in politics.

In 1910, the Mexican Revolution started and he became influenced by several of

its main players such as Pascual Orozco and Francisco Villa. Because of this influence, in 1912 at the age

of 23, he moved to Mexico City. During his stay in Mexico City, President Francisco I. Madero was

assassinated and General Victoriano Huerta took power. Since Ruiz Cortines was

opposed to the Huerta government, considered by a broad group of Mexicans as a

usurper, he joined revolutionary forces under the command of Alfredo Robles, a

right hand of the revolutionary leader of the Constitutionalist faction, Venustiano Carranza.

Robles was in charge of the revolutionary forces in the south and center of

Mexico.[1] Ruiz Cortines did see military

action in battle, but his main task was as an army paymaster. In 1920, when

Carranza was attempting to flee Mexico after the revolt of Sonoran

generals Adolfo de la Huerta, Alvaro Obregón, and Plutarco Elías Calles who

objected to Carranza's attempt to impose his successor, Carranza took a huge

amount of the treasury's gold. His train was captured and the gold was returned

to Mexico City, with the young and trusted Ruiz Cortines receiving it.

With

his background in accounting, a reputation for honesty, and credentials as a

revolutionary, there were options open to him in the 1920s. He served in the

government's Department of National Statistics; he took classes in statistics

from Daniel Cosío Villegas,

then a young teacher and later an important historian of Mexico. Ruiz Cortines

argued in publications that the Department of National Statistics should be an

autonomous agency.[3] In 1935 during the presidency

of Lázaro Cárdenas, Ruiz

Cortines's political career began at age 45, as the director in charge of

Mexico City. It was during that time that he met Miguel Alemán Valdés, son of a

revolutionary soldier, now a young lawyer who would later become president of

Mexico (1946-1952). In 1940, Ruiz Cortines managed the presidential campaign of

Cárdenas's choice as successor, Manuel Avila Camacho.[4] Five years later, the president

Ávila Camacho designated Alemán as Minister of the Interior (Secretario de

Gobernación), a powerful position. Miguel Alemán asked Ruiz to join him as

his sub-secretary because of their personal friendship. This position gave Ruiz

the opportunity to gain influence within the Institutional

Revolutionary Party. After several years, the PRI designated him as

candidate for governor of Veracruz.