Rafael Moreno Valle (August 13, 1917 – February 13, 2016) was a Mexican military physician and

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. A member of PRI, he served as the

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from 1969 to 1974, as well as the

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from 1964 to 1968 under

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Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. He was also a founding member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Traumatología y Ortopedia. Moreno was the grandfather of

Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas (30 June 1968 – 24 December 2018) was a Mexican politician affiliated at different times with both the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the National Action Party (PAN). He was the governor of Puebla from F ...

, who served as the governor of Puebla from 2011 to 2018.

Biography

Moreno Valle was born in the city of

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, on August 13, 1917. He completed his early schooling in Atlixco. He graduated from

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, the

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, in 1940. He then worked at the Carrie Tingley Hospital in the U.S. state of

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from 1941 to 1942. He then became the first Mexican to serve as a chief resident at Charity Hospital in

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. He studied at

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, beginning in 1945, where he specialized in

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. Moreno Valle taught as an adjunct profession of Trauma and Orthopedics at the

, as well as the Escuela Militar de Enfermería. He was appointed the director of the

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in 1946.< In 1952, he rose to the rank of brigadier general. In 1958, Moreno was elected to the Senate of the Republic from the state of Puebla. He served in the XLIV and XLV Legislatures of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. Moreno Valle was appointed federal

under

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños (; 12 March 1911 – 15 July 1979) was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. Previously, he served as a member of t ...

from 1964 to 1968. Moreno Valle, a member of the ruling PRI party, served as the governor of Puebla from 1969 to 1972. In 2015, the National Public Health Council of Mexico awarded Moreno Valle the Mérito Médico Guillermo Soberón Acevedo de Desarrollo de Instituciones award. That same year, the Hospital de Traumatología y Ortopedia of Puebla added his name to the institution in recognition of his service to the hospital. Rafael Moreno Valle died on February 13, 2016, at his home in the Chimalistac neighborhood of

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at the age of 98.

References

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