Lázaro Cárdenas
51st President of Mexico · Mexico · Politicians · Lived 1895 to 1970 · aged 75
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Something wrong?Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution and as Governor of Michoacán and President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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Cárdenas as a child, c.1900
Cárdenas in the Constitutional Army, c.1913
General Lázaro Cárdenas
Cárdenas's home "La Quinta Eréndira" in Pátzcuaro
Cárdenas decrees nationalization of foreign railways in 1937.
President Cárdenas, with campesinos by Roberto Cueva del Río, watercolor 1937
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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was a Mexican revolutionary, army officer, and politician who served as the 51st president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution and as Governor of Michoacán and President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He later served as the Secretary of National Defence. During his presidency, which is considered the end of the Maximato, he implemented massive land reform programs, led the expropriation of the country's oil industry, and implemented many key social reforms.
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