Héctor González González (December 27, 1882 – August 2, 1948) was a Mexican and '' regiomontano'' lawyer, politician, writer, journalist, and intellectual. He was a founder and the first rector of the

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Early life and education

Héctor González González was born in

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, on December 27, 1882, the son of José Esteban González Solís, an illustrious ''regiomontano'' professor, and Viviana González Melo. Héctor González González was raised in

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, Nuevo León, where he completed his primary studies. After completing elementary school, González relocated to Monterrey, Nuevo León, to continue his formal education for secondary and preparatory levels in the Colegio Civil in 1898. During preparatory schooling, González collaborated in the founding of the Sociedad Científico y Literaria “José Eleuterio González” in December 1899, along with Nemesio García Naranjo, Felipe Guerra Castro, Antonio de la Paz Guerra, Galdino P. Quintanilla, Antonio Morales Gómez, Santiago Roel Melo, Joel Rocha Barocio, Fortunato Lozano, and Oswaldo Sánchez. In 1901, with Jesús de la Garza, poet Oswaldo Sánchez, and professors Fortunato Lozano and Pablo Livas, González participated in the creation of a biweekly publishing, ''El Pobre Valbuena'', in which he wrote articles and essays on the popular literature of the time. In late 1904, he organized the Sociedad Renacimiento, dedicated to the exploring of

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literature through poetry. Again working with Pablo Livas, he wrote for the magazine '' Claro-Obscuro'' in 1905. González graduated from Law School in the Escuela de Jurisprudencia de Nuevo León in 1906.

Professional career

After graduating, González was court scribe to the Juzgado 1^o and, at the same time, wrote for the magazine ''

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'' in 1909. He was also in charge of the newspaper ''El Noticiero'', and a year later he acquired the ''Zig–Zag (''magazine), which he published with Federico Gómez. He was the Director for ''La Opinión'' and Secretary of the District Court. After this, he was named Private Secretary to the Nuevo León Governor, General José María Mier. On June 8, 1912, the Ateneo de Monterrey was founded, with González as a founding member and initial President i, and with Enrique Fernández Ledesma as Secretary.

Mexico City

González and his family moved temporarily to

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. There, he worked as a

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professor at the Escuela Normal Superior until 1915, when he traveled to

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where he boarded a ship to

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from where he then made his way to his short-term destination,

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. Here he was editor of the newspaper ''

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''.

Baja California (1916–1920)

From San Antonio, Texas, González migrated back south to

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to work in Coronel Esteban Cantú's government in 1916. He was first a

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, and then in Mexicali; in the latter he was also a consulting lawyer and a member of the

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. In Baja California, he founded the state's first newspaper, ''La Vanguardia'', and published works like ''El negrito poeta'' (1918), and his translation and analysis of ''

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'' by

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(1920) in

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. González maintained an active political life by directing the Club Político "Benito Juárez" that he founded with Dr. Ignacio Roel, changing political policies to lower the electricity rates to favor Mexicali citizens, and becoming the Mexicali Municipal Vice President to Coronel Agustín Martínez in 1919. The next year, he was a candidate for District Representative for the only district in Baja California, but the federal elections were suspended in this state days before the elections were supposed to be held.

Monterrey, Nuevo León (1920–1923)

Héctor González González returned to Monterrey, Nuevo León in 1920 to work on Juan M. García's campaign, and when García won the elections and started his term as

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in early 1921, González was his

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. In 1922, González ran for Senator Deputy to the prominent revolutionary, Antonio I. Villarreal, and moved to Mexico City again to collaborate in

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’s firm. From 1920 to 1924, he was a lead-writer for '' El Porvenir''.

Tampico, Tamaulipas (1923–1926)

He journeyed north again, this time to

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, Mexico in 1923, when he was hired as lawyer to the North American petroleum enterprise, Cortez Oil Company. After living in Tampico for only a few months, he was made a criminal Judge. When

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, from the Partido Socialista Fronterizo, was voted

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, González was designated

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and President of the High Court of Justice of Tamaulipas.

Monterrey, Nuevo León (1926–)

González returned to Monterrey, Nuevo León permanently by the end of 1926, and became a

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to the state of Nuevo León.e returned to teaching Literature in the Colegio Civil and, in that same year, he published ''Curso Breve de Literatura'' (1927). In 1931, he wasappointed Director of the Escuela de Jurisprudencia where he also taught

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Rector of Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

In 1933, Héctor González González was appointed

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of the Comisión Organizadora de la Universidad de Nuevo León, and on December 16 of this year, the commission elected González as First Rector of the UANL.

Final years

After his rectory of the Universidad de Nuevo León, Héctor González González was

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to the Congreso Nacional de Historia in the Aula Magna of the Colegio Civil in December 1937. On June 12, 1943, together with Santiago Roel Melo, Carlos Pérez Maldonado and José P. Saldaña, González formed part of a commission that designed the state of Nuevo León's

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. González published four works in the forties, the best known being ''Siglo y medio de cultura nuevoleonesa'' (1946).

Personal life

González married British-Italian Aida Westrup Barocio in 1906, and the couple had six children: Alicia (died in infancy), Ruy, Sol (also died in infancy), Esteban, Héctor Pablo, and Fernán González Westrup. González died from a

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on August 2, 1948, in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Works

* ''Biografía de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier'' (1910) * ''Estudios literarios'' (1911) * ''El negrito poeta mexicano'' (1918) * ''El cuervo (The Raven), traducción y estudio del poema de Poe'' (1920) * ''Curso Breve de Literatura'' (1927) * ''Historia General de la Literatura'' (1931) * ''Universidad de Nuevo León, testimonio de fundación'' (1933) * ''Historia del Colegio Civil'' (1945) * ''Historia y Bibliografía del estado de Nuevo León de 1820 a 1946'' (1946) * ''Siglo y medio de cultura nuevoleonesa'' (1946) * ''Tres libros acerca del Emperador Maximiliano'' (1947)

References

Bibliography

* Covarrubias, R. (2002). ''Datos biográficos: Héctor González, Celedonio Junco de la Vega'' (in Spanish). p. 19. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. * Flores Longoria, S. (2005). ''El espíritu del derecho en Nuevo León'' (in Spanish). Monterrey: Facultad de Derecho y Criminología, UANL. * Salinas Quiroga, G. (1956). ''Elocuencia nuevoleonesa'' (in Spanish). P. 141. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.

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