Juan Francisco Urquidi Explained

Juan Francisco Urquidi
Birth Name:	Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez
Birth Date:	16 July 1881
Birth Place:	Mexico City
Death Place:	Mexico City
Nationality:	Mexican
Alma Mater:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office1:	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia
Term Start1:	8 October 1923
Term End1:	21 November 1927
Predecessor1:	José Maximiliano Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz
Successor1:	Julio Madero González
Office2:	Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador
Term Start2:	5 June 1928
Term End2:	16 March 1930
Predecessor2:	Julio Madero González
Successor2:	Francisco de Asís de Icaza y León (interim)
Children:	Víctor L. Urquidi Magda Urquidi de Acosta, María Catalina Urquidi Bingham

Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez (16 July 1881 – 14 December 1938)^[1] 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,^[2] and as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador from 5 June 1928 to 16 March 1930.^[3] From 15 May to 29 October 1914, he also served as confidential agent of President Venustiano Carranza in the United States.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Biography

Urquidi was born on 16 July 1881 in Mexico City into a wealthy family with ancestry in Chihuahua.^[7] His father was Francisco de Paula Urquidi Cárdeña (1821-1881) and his mother Catalina Márquez Barraza (1835-1896). 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.^[8]

He married Australian-born nurse Mary Bingham in 1917^[9] He died on 14 December 1938 in Mexico City.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sanchiz Ruiz. Javier E.. Family tree of Juan Francisco Urquidi. Geneanet. 13 October 2014.
2. Web site: Embajadores de México en Colombia. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 5 October 2014. Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish. 7 February 2014.
3. Web site: Embajadores de México en El Salvador. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 5 October 2014. Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish. 7 March 2013.
4. Web site: Embajadores de México en Estados Unidos. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. 5 October 2014. Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish. 27 September 2013.
5. Book: Fabela, Isidro. Isidro Fabela

   . Isidro Fabela. Historia diplomática de la Revolución mexicana (1912-1917). 4 October 2014. 2. 16 December 2013. Fondo de Cultura Economica. Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish. 978-607-16-1504-6. 7–8.

6. Web site: Manuel Urquidi Papers. Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin. 13 October 2014. Austin, Texas. 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..
7. Urquidi. Víctor L.. Víctor L. Urquidi. Incidentes de integración en Centroamérica y Panamá, 1952-1958. 13 October 2014. October 1998. Revista CEPAL. United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Santiago de Chile, Chile. Spanish. 259–260. 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..
8. Bazant. Mílada. La enseñanza y la práctica de la ingeniería durante el porfiriato. Historia mexicana. 1984. 33. 3. 278. 13 October 2014. Centro de Estudios Históricos del Colegio de México. Mexico City, Mexico. Spanish.
9. https://sidbrint.ub.edu/ca/node/23962