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Adolfo de la Huerta - Early Life

Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor was born in the port city of Guaymas, Sonora, on May 26, 1881. His father was a merchant who had established good relations with the Yaqui Indians of the region, and the family's comfortable middle-class status enabled it to send Adolfo to Mexico City to study. He made good use of his time there, studying bookkeeping as well as singing (he had a very good tenor voice) and the violin. His father's death abruptly ended his studies, and he was forced to return to Guaymas. He found work as an accountant for a local bank and later as an administrator in a tannery, although he also found time to develop his artistic talents.

De la Huerta's political doubts were first awakened by the propaganda of the Jacobin Partido Liberal Mexicano, “Jacobin Mexican Liberal Party” (PLM), and he subscribed to its newspaper, Regeneración. De la Huerta was alienated by the PLM's radicalism, however, and in 1909 he supported the failed presidential bid of Bernardo Reyes. He later supported Francisco I. Madero in his campaign to oust the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, and he was part of the reception committee that welcomed Madero to Guaymas.

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