José González Torres (16 September 1919 – 1 November 1998) was a Mexican politician, lawyer, and president of the National Action Party.

He was a history professor at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.

From 1947 to 1949, he was world president of the international organization Pax Romana, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

[1][2] In 1963, the former chaplain of Pax Romana-Italia, Giovanni Battista Montini, was elected Pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI.

[6] In 1988, he received an honorary doctorate in canon law from the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome.