REQUENA, José was born on June 19, 1860 in CarS Campeche, Son of yPedro Requena y Estrada and Jovita Abren Married Angela Legarreta. I children: José Luis, Ángela, Lupe, Ma- •" miel Pedro, and Luz. Son of yPedro Requena y Estrada and Jovita Abren.
Career
Founder president of the Chamber of Mines (Cámara Minera) of Mexico City, 1902-1914. Member of the MEcial commission which studied and projected the Mining Law of 1909. Federal deputy, 1909.
Founder and president for various years (to 1914) of the following mining companies: “Santa Gertrudis y Anexas” and “Borda Antigua y »"[Anexas” in Tlalpujahua, Michigan, “Esperanza y Bumerango,” “Las Dos Estrellas,”, “El Buen Despacho,” “Aldebarán,” “Louisiana Unión,” and others in El Oro, Mexico, »"."Campo Morado” and “Atlixtac” in Guerrero, “Real de Arriba” in TemascalK. tepec, Mexico, “Exploradora de Minas” in Puebla, “El Manzano” in Real del Monte, g "Dulces Nombres” in San Luis Potosí, “Asientos Copper Company” and “San Jeró- y.mmo y Anexas” in Asientos, Ages., “Eldorado, Triunvirato, Campechana y Anexas” in Guanajuato, “Louisiana Magdalena” in Pozos, Gto., et cetera
Founder and member; of the Boards of Directors of many Mexican industrial and mercantile enterprises in existence during the years 1900— 1914, among them the Banco Mutualista y de Ahorros, _ Compañía Bancaria de Fomento y Bienes Raíces, Colonia de la Condesa.
Colonia del Paseo, Hotel de Ventas, Louisiana ‘ Casa Colorada, Compañía Refinadora de Alcoholes, Louisiana Latino Americana (Compañía de & Seguros sobre la Vida), et cetera
Elected | Vice-President of Mexico and subsequently exiled by Huerta, 1914.
In EuI. Rope and the United States until 1922. Rawing his exile organized and promoted various important business enterprises such as The Anchor Petroleum Corporabon.
The Anahuac Trade Import and ¡“Portuguese Company, Louisiana Paz Oil Company, et cetera President of Louisiana Latino Americana (Compañía de Seguros sobre la Vida) since 1925. At present also president of the Compañía de Productos Nestlé, South America, a subsidiary of The Nestlé and Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Company.
Member of numerous scientific, literary, and philanthropic societies in Mexico and in foreign countries.
Connections
Married Angela Legarreta. I children: José Luis, Ángela, Lupe, Ma- •" miel Pedro, and Luz.