Angel Carvajal Bernal

Ángel Carvajal Bernal (October 1, 1901 – January 27, 1985) was a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as governor of the State of Veracruz and Secretary of the Interior during the six-year term of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines between 1952 and 1958.

Biography

He was born in Santiago Tuxtla, Ver. During his political career he held several positions in various agencies, including those of Agent of the Public Ministry Attached to the Provincial and Federal Judicial Powers and Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, later. He held his seat as Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation; In 1944, Governor Ruíz Cortínez appointed him Secretary General of the Government and 4 years later, when Don Adolfo resigned his investiture to occupy the Secretary of the Interior, he was appointed Substitute Governor2 by unanimous vote of the General Assembly of the Legislature and a short time Later, on December 16, 1948, he ordered the publication in the "Official Gazette" of the Decree by which the Port of Veracruz and its People are declared Four Times Heroic1 when fighting the American Navy on April 21, 1914. On December 1, 1950, the then President of the Republic, Lic. Miguel Alemán Valdés He appointed him Secretary of Energy and in 1951, Head of National Assets and with the New Presidential Administration, Secretary of the Interior with his former Chief in Veracruz.