Pascual Eugenio ORTIZ RUBIO

Background

ORTIZ RUBIO, Pascual was born on March 10, 1877 in Morelia, Michoacán. Son of Pascual Ortiz and Leonor Rubio.

Education

Educated Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros.

Career

Director, government stamp bureau, 1914. Assisted in the organization of the marines in Veracruz, 1915. Director general of enemy property.

Head, Parque Nacional de Ingenieros. 1916; deputy. Congreso Constituyente, 1916. Chief, department, of military engineers, ministry of war, 1917.

Governor of Michoacán, 1917-1920: chief, western division of the army, 1920. Minister of communications and public works, 1920-1921. Commissioned by minister of industry to study irrigation systems of Europe, Asia, Africa.

General of brigade in the army, 1920. Minister plenipotentiary to Germany. 1923; ambassador to Brazil, 1926.

Minister of interior, 1928. President of Mexico, 193032. Member Académie Latine des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lcttres (Paris), Society Académica de Historia Internacional, Asociación de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, Society Científica Antonio Alzate, Society Geológica Mexicana, Société Astronomiquc (Paris), Société des Américanistes (Paris), Society de Plasmogenia (Barcelona), Ordre Universel du Mérite Humain (Switzerland).

Membership

Member Académie Latine des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lcttres (Paris), Society Académica de Historia Internacional, Asociación de Ingenieros y Arquitectos, Society Científica Antonio Alzate, Society Geológica Mexicana, Société Astronomiquc (Paris), Société des Américanistes (Paris), Society de Plasmogenia (Barcelona), Ordre Universel du Mérite Humain (Switzerland).

Connections

Married Josefina Ortiz. Children: Ofelia, Pascual, and Eugenio.

Father:

Pascual Ortiz

Mother:

Leonor Rubio

Spouse:

Josefina Ortiz

child:

Ofelia ORTIZ RUBIO

child:

Pascual ORTIZ RUBIO

child:

Eugenio ORTIZ RUBIO