Fernando Ortiz Arana (born October 26, 1944, in Santiago de Querétaro) is a Mexican politician and long serving legislator affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Fernando Ortiz Arana
Senator for Querétaro
In office
1 November 1994 – 31 August 2000
Preceded byErnesto Luque Feregrino
Succeeded byFrancisco Fernández de Cevallos
34th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
In office
30 March 1993 – 13 March 1994
Preceded byGenaro Borrego Estrada
Succeeded byIgnacio Pichardo Pagaza
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 November 1991 – 30 November 1991
Preceded bySami David David
Succeeded byRigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
In office
1 December 1985 – 31 August 1986
Preceded byBlas Chumacero
Succeeded byNicolás Reynés Berazaluce
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for Querétaro's 1st district
In office
1 November 1991 – 14 April 1993
Preceded byMa. Elena Martínez Carranza
Succeeded byJosé D. Olvera Cervantes
In office
1 September 1979 – 31 August 1982
Preceded byEduardo D. Ugalde Vargas
Succeeded byAngélica Paulín Posada
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
for the Federal District's 31st district
In office
1 September 1985 – 31 August 1988
Preceded byMa. Luisa Calzada de Campos
Succeeded byJosé Luis Alfonso Sampayo
Personal details
Born (1944-10-26) 26 October 1944 (age 80)
Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
Political partyPRI

Ortiz Arana is the son of José Ortiz Antañana, a real estate agent, and Virginia Arana Morán. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Querétaro in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in law.

He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1963 and chaired it in the late 1990s. He has also served three terms as a federal congressman, as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1991,[1] one term as a senator and has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 and in 2003.

References

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  1. ^ Enciclopedia Política de México 9 Tomo V. (PDF). Senade de la República - Instituto Belisario Domínguez. 2010.

Source: Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano, Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.