Heriberto Jara Corona

General Heriberto Jara Corona (July 10, 1879 – April 17, 1968) was a Mexican revolutionary and politician who served as

Governor of Veracruz The governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign Sta ...

. Heriberto Jara was born in the town of Nogales, in the state of

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

, to Emilio Jara Andrade and María del Carmen Corona. He got enrolled in the Mexican Revolution while working at a factory in the municipality of Río Blanco in his native Veracruz. The year

Francisco I. Madero Francisco Ignacio Madero González (; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'etat in February 1 ...

was elected

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he took over a seat in the

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; then in 1916 he was elected again to serve in Congress and was one of the persons who drafted the 1917 Constitution. He served as Ambassador to

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and as Governor of Veracruz. He was awarded the

Stalin Peace Prize The International Lenin Peace Prize (russian: международная Ленинская премия мира, ''mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira)'' was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin. It was awarded by a pane ...

in 1950 and, in 1959, he received the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. General Heriberto Jara International Airport in the port of

is named after him, as is the Stadium at Xalapa, built in 1925 on the grounds where

William K. Boone William Kenneth Boone (1875–1944), a U.S. citizen, was a "distinguished philanthropist and benefactor of the city" of Xalapa, Veracruz. Throughout his life he sent numerous letters, postcards, and photographs to his parents and sisters at home. ...

had organized Olympic-style athletic games in 1922. 1879 births 1968 deaths Governors of Veracruz Governors of Tabasco Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Ambassadors of Mexico to Cuba Politicians from Veracruz People of the Mexican Revolution Recipients of the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor Stalin Peace Prize recipients Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 20th-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-stub