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Genaro Vicente Vásquez Quiroz (10 July 1892 – 22 May 1967) [1] was a Mexican lawyer. [2] He was born in the city of Oaxaca to a Mixtec father and a Zapotec mother. [1]
Genaro V. Vásquez studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). [2] He served as interim governor of Oaxaca from 7 November 1925 to 1 December 1928, [3] [4] as a federal deputy from 1926 to 1928, representing the Federal District's seventh district, and as Attorney-General of the Republic from 1937 to 1940, under President Lázaro Cárdenas. [2]
He also represented Oaxaca in the Senate (1930–1934), [5] served two terms as a justice of the Supreme Court, [2] and was Mexico's plenipotentiary delegate to the seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo in 1933. [2]
He died in 1967 in either his home state [2] or in Mexico City. [1]