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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA, photography credit Joel Benjamin
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA, photography credit Joel Benjamin
Honorable Antonio Bermúdez
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA, photography credit Joel Benjamin

Honorable Antonio Bermúdez

Senator of Mexico, Mexican, 1892-1977
Place of DeathMexico City, Mexico
Place of BirthChihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico
Antonio Jáquez Bermúdez was born into a middle class family in Chihuahua, Chihuahua in 1892. Bermúdez became mayor of Ciudad Juárez in 1942. He was then elected to the position of senator from Chihuahua. He was a precandidate for the PRI nomination for Presidency afterwards he served for three years as Mexican ambassador in the Middle East, returning only in 1961 to serve in the final public position of his life, director of the National Border Program (PRONAF)