Guillermo de Landa y Escandón

Político y empresario mexicano. Nació el 2 de mayo de 1842 en la Ciudad de México y falleció el 1 de marzo de 1927 en Cannes, Francia. Fue Gobernador del Distrito Federal y miembro del grupo de Los Científicos.

Nació en 1846 en la Ciudad de México. Sus padres, José María Landa Martínez (1811-1876) y María Francisca Escandón Garmendia (1815-1869) fueron partidarios de Maximiliano de Habsburgo. Estudió en el Stonyhurst College de Lancashire, Inglaterra entre 1858 y 1862. Durante su juventud, viajó extensamente por el Reino Unido, España y Francia, donde la familia habitaba y tenía varias propiedades.

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<nowiki>----------------------------------------------------------------</nowiki> Mexican businessman and politician. He was born on May 2, 1842 in Mexico City and died on March 1, 1927 in Cannes, France. He was Governor of the Federal District and member of the Los Científicos.Nació in 1846 in Mexico City.

His parents, José María Martínez Landa (1811-1876) and Maria Francisca Escandon Garmendia (1815-1869) were supporters of Maximilian of Hapsburg. He studied at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, England between 1858 and 1862. During his youth, he traveled extensively in the UK, Spain, and France, where the family lived and had several properties.

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Senior Don Guillermo de Landa y Escandon Governor of the Federal District of Mexico is one of the most popular of the higher officials with Americans and British principally because of his warm hearted sympathies with the Anglo Saxon races and partly because he speaks English with remarkable fluency and frequency. Don Guillermo has traveled considerably, both in Great Britain and the United States, in both of which countries he has many warm personal friends. It may be mentioned that he attended the Coronation of his present Majesty in August 1903 as the Representative of the United States of Mexico. He was educated in this country at Stoneyhurst Jesuit College and began his political life in 1879 as Deputy for the State of Morelos. In 1900 he became President of the Ayumiento Municipality equivalent to our Lord Mayor of London and subsequently Governor of the Federal District Don Guillermo has done more for the benefit of the City in the few years he has been in office than all his predecessors had been able to effect collectively. There is practically no limit to the improvements which he has introduced such as cleaning of streets and public vehicles removal of long standing nuisances and obsolete restrictions stamping out of drink and vice where they had been rampant provision for the poor amelioration of the condition of prisoners awaiting trial and numerous other humane and necessary matters. Don Guillermo de Landa y Escandon was one of the initiators of the National Railway.

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