Juan de Dios Bojórquez

Juan de Dios Bojórquez León (8 March 1892 – 27 July 1967) was a Mexican writer and politician. He was elected to the 1917 constituent congress and to both chambers of the Congress of the Union, and he served as secretary of the interior under President Lázaro Cárdenas. As a writer and journalist, he frequently published under the nom de plume Djed Bórquez.

Biography Juan de Dios Bojórquez was born in San Miguel de Horcasitas, Sonora, on 8 March 1892. He graduated as an agricultural engineer from the National School of Agriculture in 1912. During the Mexican Revolution he joined the constitutionalist forces of Venustiano Carranza, where he rose to the rank of colonel.

, he was elected to the Constituent Congress of Querétaro for Sonora's 4th district and, in 1920, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Sonora's 2nd district.

From 1921 to 1926 he was Mexico's minister plenipotentiary in Honduras, Guatemala and Cuba and, in 1923, he was appointed ambassador to Guatemala. In 1934–1935 he served as secretary of the interior during the first years of President Lázaro Cárdenas's administration. Yorem Tamegua (1923), novel El héroe de Nacozari (1926), novel Islas Marías (1937), novel Crónica del Constituyente (1938), record of the constituent congress Hombres y aspectos de México. En la tercera etapa de la revolución (1963), collection of articles published in Excélsior