Fernando Ortiz Arana (born 26 October 1944) is a Mexican politician and long serving legislator affiliated with the

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...

(PRI). Born in

Santiago de Querétaro Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, ...

, Ortiz Arana is the son of José Ortiz Antañana, a real estate agent, and Virginia Arana Morán. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Querétaro in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in law. He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1963 and chaired it in the late 1990s. He has also served three terms as a federal congressman, as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1991, one term as a senator and has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 and in 2003.

References

Source: ''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992. 1944 births Living people Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Mexican people of Basque descent Autonomous University of Querétaro alumni Presidents of the Institutional Revolutionary Party Politicians from Querétaro Politicians from Querétaro City 20th-century Mexican politicians Deputies of the LI Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LIII Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LV Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LVIII Legislature of Mexico {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub