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- José Manuel Puig Casauranc (1888-1939) was an important Mexican politician, diplomat, journalist, medical doctor, author, and poet.
José Manuel Puig Casauranc was born in Laguna del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico on January 31, 1888, to parents, José Manuel Puig Zapata (1852-) and Cármen E. Casauranc Aguirre (1965-1947). In 1913, he married Eva Ladrón De Guevara (1894-1968). They had four children: Carlos (1915-1983), Gonzalo Aldolfo (1916-1998), Guadalupe Lucia (1919-2004), and José Manuel Enrique (1921-2005). After moving to Los Angeles, Eva became a movie actress in the 1930s and 1940s.
In about 1926, José Manuel Puig Casauranc married Maria Elena Reyes Spindola Pietro (1906-1960). They had two children: Maria Elena (1927-) and José Manuel Ruiz (1931-). José Manuel Puig Casauranc died of a heart attack in Havana, Cuba on May 9, 1939, after coming there from Mexico to recover from an illness.
Puig Casauranc had a long and influential career in the life and politics of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Education, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Head of the Department of the Federal District, a Senator, a Deputy, and as Mexican Ambassador to three countries: the United States, Argentina, and Brazil. From 1923 to 1924, he was the campaign manager, a speechwriter, and a main advisor to President Plutarco Elías Calles.
Puig Casauranc was considered a possible presidential candidate in 1929 but did not run. In 1931, he was preparing to manage the Mexican presidency campaign of his brother, Carlos Puig Casauranc. Tragically, Carlos died in a car accident in April 1931. Being disenchanted by political infighting and his brother's death, he decided to distance himself from an active political career and focus on diplomacy and writing. He turned down the opportunity to manage the presidential campaign of Lázaro Cárdenas in 1934. He asked for and accepted diplomatic positions as Mexican Ambassador (to the United States, Argentina, and Brazil) even though he was offered more powerful governmental positions by Cárdenas, such as Ministry of the Government and Ministry of Relations.
Puig Casauranc produced over thirty works of novels, poems, short stories, and academic works. As a journalist, he contributed to newspapers including El Universal and El Imparcial, and was editor of El Universal and director of El Demócrata. He also founded the publishing house, La Razón and the magazine, Résumen. His novel, La Hermana Impura (1927) was made into a movie of the same name in 1947. He was elected as a Corresponding Member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in 1934.