Francisco Castillo Nájera
Mexican diplomat and politician
Francisco Castillo Nájera (25 November 1886 in Victoria de Durango – 20 December 1954 in Mexico City) was a Mexican diplomat and politician. He was president of the Assembly of the League of Nations from 1934 to 1935,[1] ambassador to China (1922) and the United States (where he served as the dean of the diplomatic corps in 1945, the last year of his tenure[2]) and Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1945 to 1946.[3]
References
- ^ "The League of Nations: Assembly Meeting". Time. 19 September 1927. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
- ^ "Deans of the Diplomatic Corps". Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
- ^ "Los Cancilleres de México a través de su Historia", SRE, retrieved 17 May 2008.
External links
- League of Nations Photo Archive: Mexican Delegation
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Presidents of the Assembly of the League of Nations
- Léon Bourgeois (1920)
- Paul Hymans (1920–21)
- Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (1921–22)
- Agustín Edwards (1922–23)
- Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (1923–24)
- Giuseppe Motta (1924–25)
- Raoul Dandurand (1925–26)
- Afonso Costa (1926)
- Momčilo Ninčić (1926–27)
- Alberto Guani (1927–28)
- Herluf Zahle (1928–29)
- José Gustavo Guerrero (1929–30)
- Nicolae Titulescu (1930–32)
- Paul Hymans (1932–33)
- Charles Theodore Te Water (1933–34)
- Richard Johannes Sandler (1934)
- Francisco Castillo Nájera (1934–35)
- Edvard Beneš (1935–36)
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1936–37)
- Tevfik Rüştü Aras (1937)
- Aga Khan III (1937–38)
- Éamon de Valera (1938–39)
- Carl Joachim Hambro (1939–40, 1946)