Fernando Iglesias Calderón

Iglesias was born in Mexico City on 30 May 1856. His father, José María Iglesias, served as interim president of Mexico during the autumn of 1876. His mother, Juana Calderón Tapia, was a daughter of José María Calderón, who served several times as governor of Puebla.{{cite news |last=Sanchiz Ruiz|first=Javier|title=Árbol genealógico de Javier Sanchiz Ruiz|url=http://gw5.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=sanchiz&lang=es&m=NG&t=N&n=iglesias+calderon|language=Spanish|accessdate=3 May 2009}}

Iglesias attended both the National Preparatory School (1869–1874) and the National School of Jurisprudence (1874–1876).{{cite book|last1=Martin|first1=Percy Alvin|last2=da Silveira Soares Cardoso|first2=Manoel|title=Who's Who in Latin America: A Biographical Dictionary of the Outstanding Living Men and Women of Spanish America and Brazil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A8OrAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA195|accessdate=7 October 2014|year=1935|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Palo Alto, California, USA|isbn=978-0-8047-2315-2|page=195|oclc=459630832}} He began his professional career as a teacher of his preparatory school, but soon started a career in politics opposing dictator Porfirio Díaz, who had forced his father out of the presidency.{{cite book|last=Ceballos|first=Ciro B.|title=Panorama mexicano 1890-1910: (Memorias)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ldt-5A1Q7akC&pg=PA176|accessdate=7 October 2014|year=2006|publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-970-32-2108-0|pages=176–177}}

In 1910, he competed against Francisco I. Madero for the joint presidential candidacy of the Anti-Reelectionist Party and the National Democratic Party, but ended up in third place.{{cite book|last=Estrada|first=Roque|title=La revolución y Francisco I. Madero|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1AWAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202|accessdate=7 October 2014|year=1912|publisher=Imprenta Americana|location=Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-5-88302-398-8|pages=199–202|oclc=1315407}}{{cite book|last=Hale|first=Charles A.|title=Emilio Rabasa y la supervivencia del liberalismo porfiriano: El hombre, su carrera y sus ideas 1856-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sxVZCg9E_fcC&pg=PT119|accessdate=7 October 2014|date=4 September 2012|publisher=Fondo de Cultura Economica|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=Spanish|isbn=978-607-16-1119-2|pages=119–120}} Once Madero assumed the presidency, he invited Iglesias to the cabinet as secretary of Foreign Affairs, but he declined.{{cite book|last=Katz|first=Friedrich|authorlink=Friedrich Katz|title=The Life and Times of Pancho Villa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XAIcq6AJ3OwC&pg=PA373|accessdate=7 October 2014|year=1998|publisher=Stanford University Press|location=Palo Alto, California, USA|isbn=978-0-8047-3046-4|pages=373–374|oclc=162431539}} A year later, he was elected president of the Liberal Party and represented Mexico City in the senate from 1912 to 1913.

After the 1913 coup d'état, Iglesias opposed General Victoriano Huerta and was imprisoned in San Juan de Ulúa. When Venustiano Carranza defeated Huerta, Iglesias received a second invitation to the cabinet as secretary of Foreign Affairs, but he declined it once again and would reject it once more during the administration of President Adolfo de la Huerta. He did, however, accept the post of High Commissioner of Mexico (with the rank of ambassador) in Washington, D.C., which he briefly held from July 19 to October 31, 1920.

Back in Mexico, Iglesias supported President Álvaro Obregón and was elected to the Senate for a second term (1920–1924). Two years after the end of his term, he was appointed Mexican arbiter on the Mexican-German Claims Commission (1926–1931).

Iglesias died unmarried in Tacubaya, Mexico City, on 26 May 1942 at the age of 85. He was distinguished as Commander of the Order of Merit by the government of Chile.

• {{lang|es|Un libro del ministro de Guerra, el general Bernardo Reyes: Errores múltiples y omisiones extrañas}} (1901)
• {{lang|es|La traición de Maximiliano y la capilla propiciatoria}} (1902){{cite book|last1=Iglesias Calderón|first1=Fernando|title= La traición de Maximiliano y la capilla propiciatoria| publisher=Tip. Literaria de Filomeno Mata|location=Mexico City, Mexico|url=http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1020002770/1020002770.PDF|accessdate=8 October 2014|language=Spanish}}
• {{lang|es|El egoísmo norteamericano durante la Intervención Francesa}} (1905)
• {{lang|es|Tras campañas nacionales y una crítica falaz}} (1906)
• {{lang|es|Las supuestas traiciones de Juárez}} (1907)

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