Background
Padilla Ñervo, Luis was born on August 19, 1898 in Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico. Nephew of Amado Ñervo, a distinguished Mexican poet. Son of Luis G. Padilla.
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Luis Padilla Ñervo
Edit Profileforeign service Third Assistant Protocol Officer
Education
Primary studies in Zamora. Law degree, National School of Law, National Autonomous University. Attended the School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
Attended the George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Studies at the School of Law and Social Science, University of Buenos Aires.
Career
Third Assistant Protocol Officer, Foreign Service, 1918. Second Secretary to the Mexican Embassy in London, 1919. Assistant Secretary of the Mexican Legation to Buenos Aires, 1923.
Legal adviser to the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., 1925-1928. Second Secretary to the Mexican Embassy in Madrid, 1931. Oficial Mayor of the Secretariat of Labor.
Subsecretary of Labor. Subsecretary of Education and Fine Arts, 1932. Secretary of the Mexican Legation to Buenos Aires.
Chargé d’Affaires, Havana. Minister to El Salvador, 1934-1935. Minister to Panama, 1935-1936.
Minister to Uruguay, 1937-1938. Minister to Denmark, 1939-1940. Adviser to the Mexican delegation to the United Nations Conference, San Francisco, 1945.
President of the Mexican Delegation to the United Nations, 1945-1952. Secretary of Foreign Relations, 1952-1958. Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations, 1958-1963.
Justice of the International Court of Justice, 1963-1973. President of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1951-1952. Chairman of the United States Disarmament Commission, 1959.
Adviser to many international commissions. Member of the Board of the National Savings Bank.
Religion
Roman Catholic
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Mexico