Roberto V. Pesqueira

Roberto V. Pesqueira
Federal Deputy of Mexico
In office 1913–1913
Constituency	District 1, Sonora[1]
In office 1917–?
Personal details
Born	1882 Arizpe, Sonora[1]
Died	1966 (aged 83–84)
Nationality	Mexican
Political party	Anti-Reelectionist Party (1911)[1]
Relations	Ignacio L. Pesqueira (brother)[2]: 72

Roberto V. Pesqueira Morales (1882 – 1966) was a Mexican politician who was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies and was commissioned by President Venustiano Carranza to work as a confidential agent in the United States and secure diplomatic recognition to his regime.^[3]

Pesqueira was born in Arizpe, Sonora. His older brother, Ignacio, went on to serve as Governor of Sonora.^[2]: 72 Roberto joined Francisco I. Madero's Anti-Reelectionist Party in 1910 and was elected federal deputy representing the first district of Sonora in 1913,^[1] but refused to serve in the Chamber of Deputies after the consummation of Victoriano Huerta's coup d'état on 20 February 1913, and decided to join the revolutionary forces instead.^[2]: 58

He was elected federal deputy once again in 1917 and acquired oil fields some years later. In February 1923 he wrote a letter to President Álvaro Obregón, alerting him of some irregularities detected in his foreign competitors; in particular, the Huasteca Oil Company.^[4]

See also

• Constitutionalists in the Mexican Revolution
• United States–Mexico relations

References

1. Almada, Francisco R. (1983). Diccionario de historia, geografía y biografía sonorenses (in Spanish). Hermosillo, Mexico: Gobierno de Sonora. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
2. Cumberland, Charles Curtis (1972). Mexican Revolution: the Constitutionalist years. Texas Pan American series. Vol. 4. Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292750005. OCLC 123321124. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
3. Barragán Rodríguez, Juan (1946). Historia del ejército y de la revolución constitucionalista (in Spanish). Vol. 1. Mexico City: Antigua Librería Robredo. pp. 135–140.
4. Hall, Linda B. (1995). Oil, Banks, and Politics: The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico. Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780292731011. OCLC 231655743. Retrieved 2009-12-07. Roberto V. Pesqueira.

External links

• Pesqueira's secret telegram to President Venustiano Carranza (Soumaya Museum, in Spanish).