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

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(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 trauma. 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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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

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, 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 (; , "near the woods" , Otomi language, Otomi: ) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state, state of Morelos in Mexico. Along with Chalcatzingo, it is likely one of the origins of the Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican civilizatio ...

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, 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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