| Fernando González Roa | |
| Birth Date: | 1880 |
| Birth Place: | Salamanca, Guanajuato |
| Nationality: | Mexican |
| Office1: | Ambassador of Mexico to the United States |
| Term Start1: | 21 February 1933 |
| Term End1: | 31 December 1934 |
| Predecessor1: | José Manuel Puig Casauranc |
| Successor1: | Francisco Castillo Nájera |
| Spouse: | Edmé Gutiérrez Zamora |
Fernando González Roa (1880–1936) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as undersecretary of the Interior and as ambassador of Mexico to the United States (1933–1934).[1] [2]
González was born in Salamanca, Guanajuato, and started his political career as secretary of Government of Guanajuato (1911-1913).[3] After the 1913 coup d'état, he supported General Victoriano Huerta —a fact that would beset him during the Constituent Congress of 1916–1917.[4] His close relationship with both Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón helped him to re-establish his political career.[5]
As a diplomat, González represented his country in the 6th Pan-American Conference of Havana (1928), in the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation between Bolivia and Paraguay (assembled in Washington, D.C., in 1929) and in both the Mexico-France and Mexico-United States Claims Commissions.[6] His nomination to the later was privately contested by Luis L. León, secretary of Agriculture, who wrote a telegram to President Obregón alerting him that, in his opinion, despite Gonzalez' eloquence and erudition, he lacked initiative, talent and political expertise.[7]
Aside from his political and diplomatic activities, González Roa served in the executive board of National Railways of Mexico and the Bank of Mexico; as member of the National Banking Commission and the Hague Permanent Court of International Arbitration; and as professor of Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Free School of Law.