Career
From 15 May to 29 October 1914, he also served as confidential agent of President Venustiano Carranza in the United States. Urquidi was born on 16 July 1881 in Mexico City into a wealthy family with ancestry in Chihuahua. His father was Francisco de Paula Urquidi Cárdeña (1821-1881) and his mother Catalina Márquez Barraza (1835-1896).
He completed high school at Dean Academy in Franklin, Massachusetts, and eventually graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor"s degree in civil engineering.
He died on 14 December 1938 in Mexico City.
