Armando León Bejarano Valadez (April 11, 1916 – July 6, 2016) was a Mexican

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, physician, politician, and member of the

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(PRI). He served as the

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of Morelos from 1976 until 1982. Bejarano was born in

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, on April 11, 1916, to Jesús Bejarano Nuñez and Carmen Marcia Valadez Lizarraga. He was the youngest of his brothers. Bajarano studied at the medical school of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) from 1933 to 1938 and received his degree on July 18, 1939, becoming a surgeon and

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. He specialized in

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and

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. Bejaranos was the medical director of the

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during the

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. Bejarano was appointed the PRI candidate for

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to succeed outgoing Governor Felipe Rivera Crespo. His candidacy proved controversial, as Bejarano had no political experience in Morelos at the time. Bejarano's friendship and connections with then-

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José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...

allowed him to jump from a position at the Office of Food and Beverages at the federal

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directly to the gubernatorial candidacy of Morelos state without opposition. Bejarano, a candidate for the governing PRI, was elected Governor and served in that office May 1976 until 1982. He was succeeded by Lauro Ortega Martínez, a former President of PRI. Bejarano later served as a judge within the Morela state judiciary. Armando León Bejarano died at his home in

Cuernavaca Cuernavaca (; nci-IPA, Cuauhnāhuac, kʷawˈnaːwak "near the woods", ) is the capital and largest city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. The city is located around a 90-minute drive south of Mexico City using the Federal Highway 95D. The na ...

, Morelos, on July 6, 2016, at the age of 100 due to old age. His survivors are his son and daughters Armando Berjarano Almada, Gloria Bejarano Almada and María de Lourdes Bejarano Almada

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