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Gustavo Daz Ordaz Bolaos was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party . He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.

Daz Ordaz Bolaos was born in San Andrs Chalchicomula . His father, Ramn Daz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an accountant, while his mother, Sabina Bolaos Cacho de Daz Ordaz, worked as a school teacher. Daz Ordaz graduated from the University of Puebla onFebruary 1937 with a law degree. He became a professor at the university and served as vice rector from 1940 to 1941. In 1943 he became a federal deputy for the first district of the state of Puebla, and served as a senator for the same state from 1946 to 1952. He served as the Secretary of Government in the cabinet of president Adolfo Lpez Mateos from 1958 to 1964. OnNovember 1963, he became the presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party . Despite facing only token opposition, Daz Ordaz campaigned as if he were the underdog. He won the presidential election onJuly 1964.

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