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José López Portillo y Pacheco

1920 - 2004

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José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ˈlopes poɾˈtiʝo]; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. López Portillo was the only official candidate in the 1976 presidential election, being the only president in recent Mexican history to win an election unopposed. Politically, the López Portillo administration began a process of partial political openness by passing an electoral reform in 1977 [es] which loosened the requisites for the registration of political parties (thus providing dissidents from the left, many of whom had hitherto been engaged in armed conflict against the government, with a path to legally participate in national politics) and allowed for greater representation of opposition parties in the Chamber of Deputies, as well as granting amnesty to many of the guerrilla fighters from the Dirty War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. José López Portillo y Pacheco is the 9,525th most popular politician (down from 5,357th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Mexican Politician.

José López Portillo y Pacheco is most famous for being the president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. He was the first president to be elected after the Mexican Revolution. He was also the first president to come from a rural background.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 9,525 out of 19,576. Before him are Ashurnasirpal I, Luigi Luzzatti, Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours, Jayavarman III, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi, and Thomas Bérard. After him are Farabundo Martí, Albert II, Duke of Saxony, Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia, Quett Masire, and Yamamoto Gonnohyōe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 157. Before him are Philippa Foot, Josefa Iloilo, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, DeForest Kelley, John O'Connor, and Amet-khan Sultan. After him are Hannie Schaft, Mohammed Dib, Schubert Gambetta, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Cornelius Ryan, and Osvaldo Cavandoli. Among people deceased in 2004, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 111. Before him are Carlos Lacoste, Jerry Orbach, Hussein al-Houthi, Fay Wray, Laura Betti, and Bill Pickering. After him are Anthony Steffen, Michael Grant, Kalevi Sorsa, Rafael Eitan, Jean Lefebvre, and Czesław Niemen.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 114 out of 729. Before him are Helena Rojo (1944), Manuel Rosas (1912), Anastasio Bustamante (1780), Nicolás Bravo (1786), Mariano Arista (1802), and Agustín Lara (1897). After him are Isabel Moctezuma (1509), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1889), Valentín Gómez Farías (1781), Emilio Portes Gil (1890), Ricardo Rodríguez (1942), and Rosario Castellanos (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, José López Portillo y Pacheco ranks 46. Before him are Luis Echeverría (1922), Tizoc (1436), Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1823), Anastasio Bustamante (1780), Nicolás Bravo (1786), and Mariano Arista (1802). After him are Isabel Moctezuma (1509), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1889), Valentín Gómez Farías (1781), Emilio Portes Gil (1890), Ce Acatl Topiltzin (947), and Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1889).

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