Background
PORTES GIL, Emilio was born on October 3, 1891 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., Mexico.
PORTES GIL, Emilio was born on October 3, 1891 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamps., Mexico.
Educated Escuela Libre de Derecho.
Teacher in the primary school of Ciudad Victoria, 1910-1912. Clerk in the Department of Military Justice of the Secretariat of War and Marine, 1914. First official in the same department, 1914-1915.
Civil judge of first instance, Hermosillo, 1915. Magistrate of the Superior Tribunal of Justice of Hermosillo, 1916. Member of the Commission for the Revision of Penal and Civil Laws of Sonora, 1916.
Consulting attorney of the Secretariat of War and Marine, 1917. Member of the Commission for the Revision of Military Laws, 1917. Federal deputy to the twentyseventh, twenty-eighth, thirtieth, and thirty-first legislatures.
Secretary-General of Government (Gobernación) of the State of Tamaulipas, 1918. Provisional Governor of the same, 1920. Member of the Directive Council of the Mexican National Railways, 1921.
Constitutional Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, 1925- 1928. National Secretary of Government, 1928. Provisional President of Mexico, 1928-1930.
Settled the longpending dispute with the Catholic Church. President of the National Revolutionary Party, 1930. Professor of agrarian legislation in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of Mexico City, 1930.
Minister Plenipotentiary to France, 1931-1932. Delegate to the League of Nations, 1931— 1932.
Member cornnin. for revision of penal and civil laws, state of Sonora, 1916. Member commission for revision of military laws, 1917. Member directing council, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, 1921.
Married Carmen Garcia.