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Aurora Jiménez de Palacios (9 December 1925 – 15 April 1958) was a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She was the first woman to be elected to the office of Federal Deputy.
She was a graduate of the University of Guadalajara. She settled in the city of Mexicali, Baja California in 1947 and married Jose Cruz Palacios Sánchez.
In 1937 she participated in the formation of the Confederation of Mexican Workers, in Culiacán, Sinaloa.
She represented Baja California as a Federal Deputy in the 42nd Legislature, from 1953 to 1955.
She was an advocate and campaigner for women's suffrage in Mexico, and in 1953 she participated in the PRI regional committee. With Emilia Barajas, Eva Ayon, Cristina Mojica Flores, and her husband Jose Cruz Palacios Sánchez, she organized a rally for voting rights in the Mexicali bullring. It was attended by about 10,0000 women.
She was killed in a plane crash on 15 April 1958.