Manuel Gómez Morín
'Manuel Gómez Morín' (
February 27,
1897-
April 19,
1972) was a
Mexican politician. He was a founding member of the
National Action Party, and one of its theoreticians. Prior to this he was considered a leading figure in Mexican
monetary policy, one of the so-called
Siete Sabios de México (''Seven Sages of Mexico'').
Early life
Morín was born in the old mining town of
Batopilas in the Mexican state of
Chihuahua on
February 27,
1897. His father Manuel Gómez Castillo (of
Spanish origin) died at age 24, shortly after his son was born. His mother, Concepción Morín de Avellano, was a native of
Parral, Chihuahua.
His widowed mother sold their small home and moved to Parral around
1911, from there they moved to the city of
Chihuahua. Later, looking for a better place for her son, she moved to
León,
Guanajuato, there, in a Sacred Heart school, Manuel finished his primary school studies. His first years of preparatory school in the ''María Inmaculada'' school, founded by the bishop of León, Don Emeterio Valverde y Téllez.
By
1913, mother and child left León and moved to
Mexico City where Manuel entered the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria and finished high school.
From
1915 to
1919 he worked from correcting tests to writing editorials in revolutionary papers to help his family. He worked in the
Secretaría de Hacienda from 1919 to 1921.
He married Lidia Torres Fuentes in
1924, with whom he procreated 4 children: Juan Manuel, Gabriela, Mauricio and Margarita.
He died on April 19, 1972 in Mexico City. He rests in Mexico City's
Rotonda de los Personajes Ilustres.
Professional Studies
Morín studied Law during the days of the
Mexican Revolution in the
National University of Mexico, and there, as a student, he struggled to gain autonomy to the university to which he served as Rector in 1933. He received the degree of Lawyer in
1918, aged 21, he taught Political Law and Contitutional Law in the University. In 1934 he received a Honoris Causa doctorate from the
UNAM.
Professional career
He began practicing his career as a lawyer two years before graduating, and after he graduated he started his own office which he carried out in the same building until his death. With the exception of a few years he laboured in the Secretary of Finance and as rector of the UNAM, he always lived as a lawyer and in
1927 he was legal representative to the Soviet Embassy.
Civil Service Career
As a public servant, he occupied the post of Under-secretary of Finance, President of the Board of the
Banco de México, member of the organizing commission of
Banobras and collaborated in the first Commission on Studies about Social Security.
He worked in the Board of the Banco de México from
1925 to
1929. He created the First Law on Agricultural Credit. He had an important role in the creation of the Constitutive Law of the Bank of Mexico, Insurance institutions and organic laws of articles 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution.
Politics
Founding of the National Action Party
On
September 15,
1939, Morín founded the
National Action Party of Mexico along with
Luis Calderón Vega, and served as party president from
1939 to
1949. The National Action Party won the presidential elections for the first time in the year
2000, 61 years after its foundation.
"National Action" politics
The National Action Party was built on a theory of National Action politics, rejecting a fundamental adherence to right or left, which was developed by Gomez Morin and his associates.
The party ideology, at least in principle, is that of "National Action" which rejects a fundamental adherence to left- or right-wing politics or policies, instead requiring the adoption of such policies as correspond to the problems faced by the nation at any given moment. Thus both right and left wing policies may be considered equally carefully in formulation of national policy. (This is a similar theoretical basis as both
Gaullism and
Peronism, although the similarity is weakened in the later case by the distinctly authoritarian stance of
Perón.)
The party ideology has always been strongly Catholic, and fits into the overall positions of
Christian Democracy.
See also
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Manuel Clouthier
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Los Siete Sabios de México
External links
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Manuel Gómez Morin Cultural Center (in Spanish)
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Rector de la UNAM
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Partido Acción Nacional
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The biography of Manuel Gómez Morín in PDF format
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