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Vicente Fox

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Vicente Fox Quesada (Latin American Spanish: [biˈsente ˈfoks keˈsaða]; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the National Action Party (PAN) ticket in the 2000 election. He became the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929, and the first elected from an opposition party since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. Fox won the election with 43 percent of the vote. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vicente Fox is the 3,477th most popular politician (down from 3,159th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Mexico and the 13th most popular Mexican Politician.

Vicente Fox is most famous for being the first president of Mexico who was not a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vicente Fox ranks 3,477 out of 19,576Before him are John Dickinson, Jean Moulin, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Nyuserre Ini, Paul Deschanel, and Nexhmije Hoxha. After him are Charles III of Navarre, Emperor Ming of Han, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, Vuk Branković, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, and Ptolemy of Mauretania.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vicente Fox ranks 86Before him are Junichiro Koizumi, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Peter Greenaway, Felipe González, Michael Crichton, and Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat. After him are László Sólyom, Maurizio Pollini, René Angélil, Pál Schmitt, Caetano Veloso, and Věra Čáslavská.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Vicente Fox ranks 26 out of 729Before him are Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Francisco I. Madero (1873), La Malinche (1502), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), and Lázaro Cárdenas (1895). After him are Moctezuma I (1398), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), Linda Christian (1923), Hugo Sánchez (1958), Cantinflas (1911), and Cuitláhuac (1476).

Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Vicente Fox ranks 13Before him are Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Francisco I. Madero (1873), La Malinche (1502), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), and Lázaro Cárdenas (1895). After him are Moctezuma I (1398), Cuitláhuac (1476), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Venustiano Carranza (1859), Plutarco Elías Calles (1877), and Victoriano Huerta (1850).