José González Torres (16 September 1919 – 1 November 1998) was a Mexican politician, lawyer, and president of the National Action Party.

Biography

González Torres was born on 16 September 1919 in Cotija de la Paz. He studied from primary to high school in the city of

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. In the 1940s, González Torres moved to

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, where he studied law at the

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, graduating as a lawyer in 1945. He was a history professor at the

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in Mexico City. From 1947 to 1949, he was world president of the international organization

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, based in

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. In 1963, the former chaplain of Pax Romana-Italia, Giovanni Battista Montini, was elected

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of the

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, taking the name

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. From 1949 to 1952, he was president of Mexican Catholic Action. He was General Secretary of the National Action Party between 1956 and 1958, and president of the party from 1959 to 1962. In the

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, he was the party's candidate for the

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. He was elected federal deputy in the LII legislature of the Congress of the Union (1982–1985).

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named him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory and the

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. In 1988, he received an honorary doctorate in canon law from the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome. He died on 1 November 1998 in

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aged 79.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:González Torres, José 1919 births 1998 deaths Presidents of the National Action Party (Mexico) National Action Party (Mexico) politicians Deputies of the LII Legislature of Mexico Politicians from Michoacán Mexican Roman Catholics National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Escuela Libre de Derecho alumni