Juan Francisco Urquidi

Juan Francisco Urquidi
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia
In office 8 October 1923 – 21 November 1927[1]
Preceded by	José Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz[1]
Succeeded by	Julio Madero González[1]
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador
In office 5 June 1928 – 16 March 1930[2]
Preceded by	Julio Madero González[2]
Succeeded by	Francisco de Asís de Icaza y León (interim)[2]
Personal details
Born	Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez 16 July 1881 Mexico City[3]
Died	14 December 1938 (aged 57) Mexico City[3]
Nationality	Mexican
Spouse(s)	Beatrice Mary (m. 1917)[4]
Children	Víctor L. Urquidi[4]
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology[5]

Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez (16 July 1881 – 14 December 1938)^[3] was a Mexican politician and diplomat who served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia from 8 October 1923 to 21 November 1927,^[1] and as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador from 5 June 1928 to 16 March 1930.^[2] From 15 May to 29 October 1914, he also served as confidential agent of President Venustiano Carranza in the United States.^[6][7][8]

Biography

Urquidi was born on 16 July 1881 in Mexico City^[3] into a wealthy family with ancestry in Chihuahua.^[4] His father was Francisco de Paula Urquidi Cárdeña (1821-1881) and his mother Catalina Márquez Barraza (1835-1896).^[3] 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.^[5]

He died on 14 December 1938 in Mexico City.^[3]

Notes and references

1. "Embajadores de México en Colombia" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
2. "Embajadores de México en El Salvador" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
3. Sanchiz Ruiz, Javier E. "Family tree of Juan Francisco Urquidi". Geneanet. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
4. Urquidi, Víctor L. (October 1998). "Incidentes de integración en Centroamérica y Panamá, 1952-1958". Revista CEPAL (in Spanish) (Santiago de Chile, Chile: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean): 259–260. Retrieved 13 October 2014. Mi madre fue enviada en 1916 a Nueva York a estudiar enfermería. Allí conoció a mi padre, el ingeniero Juan Francisco Urquidi, nacido en la ciudad de México, de familia chihuahuense, quien después de episodios políticos prodemocráticos al lado de Francisco 1. Madero, tuvo que ir en 1913 al exilio, al ser éste asesinado por órdenes de Victoriano Huerta. Participó después en la representación del gobierno de Venustiano Carranza en Washington, y al fin se trasladó a Nueva York, donde fundó una revista mensual en español. Conoció a mi madre porque ella, siendo bilingüe, era asignada en su hospital a atender a pacientes de habla española; un amigo mexicano común los presentó. Casaron en Filadelfia en 1917; en 1918, recién firmado el armisticio en Compiégne, y a invitación del recién nombrado Ministro de México en Francia, Alberto J. Pani emprendieron el viaje a París. En el suburbio de Neuilly, en mayo de 1919, abrí los ojos por primera vez. Mi padre tuvo el cuidado, conforme a sus privilegios diplomáticos, de garantizar legalmente mi nacionalidad mexicana.
5. Bazant, Mílada (1984). "La enseñanza y la práctica de la ingeniería durante el porfiriato" (PDF). Historia mexicana (in Spanish) (Mexico City, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Históricos del Colegio de México) 33 (3): 278. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
6. "Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos" (in Spanish). Mexico City, Mexico: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
7. Fabela, Isidro (16 December 2013). Historia diplomática de la Revolución mexicana (1912-1917) (in Spanish) 2. Mexico City, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-607-16-1504-6. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
8. "Manuel Urquidi Papers". Austin, Texas: Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 13 October 2014. His brother Juan Francisco worked at the Mexican Legation in London for several years during the 1920s when Mexico was seeking Great Britain’s recognition of its government. Juan Francisco became the secretary and interpreter for the Mexican American Commission of 1923, which met to resolve differences between Mexico and Washington. Towards the end of 1923 he became the Enviado Extraordinario and Ministro Plenipotenciario of Mexico in Colombia and in 1929 he was posted as Ambassador to El Salvador.