Emeterio de la Garza Jr.
de la Garza Jr. in 1918
Special Representative of the President of Mexico to the United States Government
In office
1913–1914
PresidentVictoriano Huerta
Federal Deputy
In office
1898–1910[1]
Personal details
Born(1873-04-05)5 April 1873
Marín, Nuevo León[1]
Died1928 (aged 54–55)
NationalityMexican
Alma materNational School of Jurisprudence[1]

Emeterio de la Garza Jr. (5 April 1873 – 1928) was a Mexican conservative politician and businessman who served as a federal congressman in the Chamber of Deputies and as Special Representative of President Victoriano Huerta in Washington, D.C.[2][1]

Biography

He was born on 5 April 1873.

Huerta — the army general who assumed control of the country following a coup d'état against the democratically elected president, Francisco I. Madero— tried to avoid a military intervention by the United States in 1913, so he sent De la Garza to negotiate with business leaders and the Wilson administration.[3]

Emeterio was a close friend of businessman James E. Hyslop, he worked as his personal lawyer for several years.

Aside from his political and diplomatic duties, De la Garza edited La Patria newspaper, served as president of the New York, Mobile and Mexico Steamship Line and was a shareholder of the International Bank and Trust Company of Mexico City.[4]

He died in 1928.

Works

  • La política de conciliación (1902).
  • Manifiesto del licenciado Emeterio de la Garza Jr., convocando a un congreso de paz (1914).
  • Mexico and the War: A Lecture by Emeterio de la Garza (1917).[5]
  • Los estados latinos de América y los Estados Unidos de América (1928).

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Salinas Quiroga, Genaro, ed. (1999). Elocuencia nuevoleonesa (in Spanish). San Nicolás de los Garza, N.L., Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. pp. 97–101. ISBN 978-968-7808-85-7. OCLC 42390838. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Senor Emeterio de la Garza, Jr., Writes for The Times of the Difficulties Confronting the Present Administration and Gives a Graphic Picture of Mexico City's Days of Tragedy". The New York Times. 29 June 1913. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  3. ↑ Katz, Friedrich (1998). La guerra secreta en México: Europa, Estados Unidos y la revolución mexicana (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Ediciones Era. p. 193. ISBN 978-968-411-424-1. Retrieved 2 October 2014. A mediados de 1913, Emeterio de Garza, un cerano colaborador de Huerta, viajó a los Estados Unidos para convencer al gobierno y a los empresarios norteamericanos de que evitaran una intervención en México.
  4. ↑ Hart, John Mason (2011). Imperio y Revolución: Estadounidenses en México desde la guerra civil (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Océano. pp. 127–128. ISBN 978-607-400-987-3. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  5. ↑ De la Garza Jr, Emeterio (1917). Mexico and the War: A Lecture by Emeterio de la Garza. New York City, N.Y., United States of America. Retrieved 4 October 2014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Media related to Emeterio de la Garza, Jr. at Wikimedia Commons

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.