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Federico Gamboa

Died in 1939

Federico Gamboa was born in Mexico City on 22 December 1864. An orphan, he gave up his law studies, worked in a court and wrote for the newspapers, then in 1888 entered the diplomatic service: Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Spain. Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs in 1910, he was Huerta's minister of foreign affairs in August and September 1913, then the Catholic Party's candidate for the presidency. He kept a diary for nearly half a century, presided over the Mexican Academy and died in Mexico City on 15 August 1939.

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