Manuel Bartlett Bautista (December 23, 1894 in Tenosique, Tabasco – April 24, 1963 in

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) was a Mexican journalist, lawyer, judge, and politician who served as Governor of the State of Tabasco for two years, before being pressured to resign.

Biography

Manuel Bartlett Bautista was born in Tenosique to Gabriel Bartlett Cámara, a businessman of partial Cornish descent, and Teodora Bautista Pérez. He completed his primary studies in Tenosique and his secondary studies there and at the Mexican

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Institute of

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. From 1909 to 1915 he lived in

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, then known as San Juan Bautista de la Villa Hermosa, studying at the Instituto Juárez while also agitating through

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circles. In 1913 Bartlett helped found and became President of the Juárez Institute's Free Student Association, but ended up being expelled from the school after leading a protest against Huerta's assassination of President Madero. While at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México he worked as editor of the student newspaper ''El Estudiante'', graduating with a degree in law in 1920. Bartlett returned to

that same year and taught for a brief time at his old school, the Instituto Juárez. He also served as

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in the Ayuntamiento del Centro (City Council) and President of the Committee of Public Health. From 1921-22 he served as a

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to the Congress of the State of Tabasco. From 1920 to 1929 he held various legal and governmental positions, including consulting lawyer to the

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(1920);

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to the

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(1922); consulting lawyer to the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit (1924–28); and chief of the legal department of the same (1929). After a decade working in different district-judicial capacities Bartlett was made a Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court, position which he would hold from 1941 to 1951. In 1953, after three previously unsuccessful attempts, Bartlett obtained the PRI's nomination for the governorship of Tabasco, a decision which, owing to the party's virtual monopoly on power, all but assured him the office. However, as a result of intra-party struggles combined with civil unrest in the state, Bartlett fell out of favor with the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines administration and was pressured to leave the post before the conclusion of his term. On March 22, 1955, Bartlett asked for and was granted a leave of absence by the State Congress, effectively ending his governorship. Bartlett was married to Isabel Díaz Castilla, niece of famed poet and insurgent

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. His son

Manuel Bartlett Díaz Manuel Bartlett Díaz (born 23 February 1936) is a Mexican politician, and the current director of the public energy company CFE, and former Secretary of the Interior. Bartlett was elected to the Senate of the Republic for the 2000–2006 ...

is a high PRI official and former governor of Puebla. Manuel Bartlett Bautista died on April 24, 1963 and is buried in Mexico City.

Published works

(list not comprehensive) *''La defensa como procuración''. 1920 *''El pocho, cojoes, tigres y pochoveras: interesantes y curiosas costumbres tradicionales de Tenosique, Tab''. 1926 *''La cuestión electoral tabasqueña (1923-1926)''. 1954

Bibliography

*(English) Camp, Roderic Ai, ''Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993''. The Hague: Mouton, 1993. *(Spanish) Peralta Burelo, Francisco, ''Gobernadores de Tabasco separados del cargo, 1935-1987''. Villahermosa, Tab.:

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, 1988.

External links

El Ministro Manuel Bartlett Bautista

Ex-gobernadores de Tabasco
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