Lauro Ortega Martínez (June 8, 1910 – July 22, 1999) was a Mexican

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and

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. Ortega served as the national president of the

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(PRI), Mexico's longtime ruling party, during the 1960s. In the 1979 mid-term election he was elected to the

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for the fourth district of Morelos. He then served as the

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from 1982 to 1988, succeeding Armando León Bejarano. Ortega Martínez died from a

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on July 22, 1999, aged 89.

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