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Genaro V. Vásquez
 Genaro Vicente Vásquez Quiroz (10 July 1892 – 22 May 1967)[1] was a Mexican lawyer.[2] He was born in the city of Oaxaca to a Mixtec father and a Zapotec mother.[1] Genaro V. Vásquez studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[2] He served as interim governor of Oaxaca from 7 November 1925 to 1 December 1928,[3][4] as a federal deputy from 1926 to 1928, representing the Federal District's seventh district, and as Attorney-General of the Republic from 1937 to 1940, under President Lázaro Cárdenas.[2] He also represented Oaxaca in the Senate (1930–1934),[5] served two terms as a justice of the Supreme Court,[2] and was Mexico's plenipotentiary delegate to the seventh International Conference of American States in Montevideo in 1933.[2] He died in 1967 in either his home state[2] or in Mexico City.[1] References
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