Manuel González Cosío y Rivera

The son of Carlos Gonzalez de Cosio y Marroquin and Luz Maria Rivera y Oñate, I was born on 14th Street Arteaga, in this city of Querétaro, on April 14, 1915, when General Obregon defeated Villa in Celaya.

The Corregidora, Ezequiel Montes, Zaragoza and other avenues were widened and extended, and the Cimatario, del Valle, Las Rosas and Álamos areas were urbanized, and the General Hospital and Tecnologico de Querétaro were built, though they would not open until after he left office.

In the last year of his administration, there were two national holidays of events that took place in Querétaro: the fiftieth anniversary of the Constitution of 1917 and the centenary of the triumph of the republican forces that ended the French intervention in 1867.

For such celebrations were created the Plaza of the Constitution (replacing the previous Escobedo Market) and the esplanade and monument to Benito Juárez atop the Cerro de las Campanas, both inaugurated by President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz on 5 February and 15 May 1967, respectively.

In 1976 he was again elected senator, a position he held for a short time since he was appointed director of the National Company of Popular Subsistence (CONASUPO) by President José Lopez Portillo.