Rafael Corrales Ayala Espinosa, Federal Deputy from the State of Guanajuato, District 1.
Background
Corrales Ayala Espinosa, Rafael was born on September 14, 1925 in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. Part of the group recruited to Institutional Revolutionary Party by Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Son of Rafael Corrales Ayala, a lawyer who administered German property for the Mexican government during World War II, and Luz Espinoza Castafton.
Brother of Salvador Corrales Ayala, Director General of Social Communication, Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology, 1983.
Education
Early education unknown, law degree, National School of Law, National Autonomous University, with a thesis on “The State and the Nation in Mexico”. Degree in philosophy, School of Philosophy, National Autonomous University, 1944-1950. Professor at the National School of Law, National Autonomous University, 1960-1962.
Professor of the History of Political Ideas, School of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University, 1953-1954. Chief of Press Relations, National Autonomous University, 1948-1949. Chief of the University Extension Department, National Autonomous University, 1949.
Career
Federal Deputy from the State of Guanajuato, District 1, 1949-1952, member of the Gran Comisión, the Committees on Legislative Studies (1st and 2nd year), Budgets and Accounting (2nd year), and Vice President of the Chamber, November, 1949. Alternate Senator from the State of Guanajuato, 1952-1958. Federal Deputy from the State of Guanajuato, District 1, 1955-1958.
Member of the Committee on Money, Credit, and Credit Institutions, and the Committee on Foreign Relations. Secretary of the Introductory Council. President of the Chamber, September, 1956.
Federal Deputy from the State of Guanajuato, District 1, 1979-1982. Governor of Guanajuato, since 1985. Secretary General of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party, 1956-1958.
Precandidate for senator from Guanajuato, 1981. General Delegate of the National Executive Committee of Institutional Revolutionary Party to Querétaro, 1982. Assistant Attorney General of Mexico (1), 1946-1947.
Head of the Press Department, Presidency of Mexico, 1953-1954. Director of Information, Secretariat of Government, 1954-1955. President of the Arbitration Tribunal for Federal Workers, 1960-1962.
Secretary General of the Department of Tourism, 1962-1964. Director General of the National Lottery for Public Welfare, 1964-1970. Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, 1976-1982.
Oficial Mayor of the Secretariat of Government, 1982-1985. Director of the Universidad de México, 1948-1952. Oratory champion, 1930s.
Responded to the 4th State of the Union address of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.