DIAZ ORDAZ, GUSTAVO

born March 12, 1911, Ciudad Serdn, Mex. died July 15, 1979, Mexico City president of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. A descendant of Jos Mara Daz Ordaz, associate of 19th-century Mexican leader Benito Jurez, Daz Ordaz was trained as a lawyer and served as supreme court president in his native state of Puebla before being elected to the Mexican Senate in 1946. In 1958 he became federal interior minister and in July 1964 was elected to the presidency as the Partido Revolucionario Institucional candidate to succeed Adolfo Lpez Mateos. Daz Ordaz's administration emphasized economic development for Mexico. In 1977 he was ambassador to Spain.