Noé de la Flor Casanova (May 29, 1904 in Teapa,

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– 1986 in

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) was a Mexican lawyer, '' cantautor'', writer, poet and politician who served for four years as

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, before being removed from office following a scandal.

Life and work

De la Flor y Casanova was the son of Manuel de la Flor Hernández, a master

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, and Elodia Casanova de de la Flor, the family was extremely poor. After completing

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in Teapa he moved to

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(then called San Juan Bautista) to attend the Instituto Juárez, a preparatory school founded by Manuel Sánchez Mármol. With a scholarship, obtained for him by

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at the request of fellow Tabascan Carlos Pellicer, De la Flor Casanova enrolled in the

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. After obtaining a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1930 he served in the following

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posts: Secretary of the Criminal Courts in the Federal District from 1930–36; professor at the National Law School,

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, 1937–46; Justice of the Peace, 1937–39; Judge of the Superior Tribunal of Justice of the Federal Territories, 1940–42, 1946-58. He was Governor of Tabasco from 1943–46 and was removed from office following a scandal, the details of which remain obscure. He was also a founding member (1936) of the

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Published works

(list not comprehensive) *''Salvador Díaz Mirón">Díaz Mirón, y otros poemas'' 1935 *''Madre Revolución; insurgencias líricas de Noé de la Flor Casanova'' 1936 *''Paisaje nada más'' 1938 *''Balcón al viento'' 1958 *''Ideario de Winston Churchill (1874-1965)'' 1965 *''Viajando por el mundo de mis libros: reflexiones inconexas para inteligentes y para tontos'' 1975 *''Licor del silencio: poemas'' 1982

Notes

Bibliography

*(English) Camp, Roderic Ai, ''Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993''. The Hague: Mouton, 1993. *(Spanish) Acosta, Marco Antonio, ''Nueva antología de poetas tabasqueños contemporáneos'', Mexico: Univ. J. Autónoma de Tabasco, 2006. *(Spanish) Castellanos Castilla, Gerardo, ''De la Flor Casanova: Isla y tierra firme''. Mexico, D.F.: Editorial Cultura, 1958. *(Spanish) Castro Leal, Antonio, ''La poesía mexicana moderna''. Mexico:

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, 1953.

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