Gabriel Ramos Millán
Mexican senator and lawyer
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Gabriel Ramos Millán (1903–September 26, 1949) was a Mexican politician, lawyer and urban developer who was known locally as the "Apostle of Corn".[1] A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – and its forerunner, the Party of the Mexican Revolution (PRM) – Ramos Millán was considered by many, including President Miguel Alemán, as a strong candidate for Mexico's presidency.[2] Alemán and Ramos Millán had a personal friendship.
Ramos Millán was born in Ayapango, State of Mexico, a town that later honoured him by changing its name to Ayapango de Gabriel Ramos Millán.[3]
He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the State of Mexico's 9th district in the 1943 mid-term election[4] and to the Senate for his home state in 1946.[3]
On President Alemán's instructions, Ramos Millán created the National Corn Commission (Comisión Nacional del Maíz) in 1947.[3][5]
Death
On September 26, 1949, Ramos Millán and 22 others, including actress Blanca Estela Pavón, were killed when their Mexicana de Aviación Douglas DC-3 airplane crashed onto the Popocatépetl volcano in an accident that killed everyone on board during the Tapachula to Mexico City leg of a Tuxtla Gutiérrez to Mexico City flight.[6]
