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Juan Francisco Urquidi Márquez (16 July 1881 – 14 December 1938) was a Mexican politician and diplomat who served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to Colombia from 8 October 1923 to 21 November 1927, and as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Mexico to El Salvador from 5 June 1928 to 16 March 1930. From 15 May to 29 October 1914, he also served as confidential agent of President Venustiano Carranza in the United States.
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Urquidi was born on 16 July 1881 in Mexico City into a wealthy family with ancestry in Chihuahua. His father was Francisco de Paula Urquidi Cárdeña (1821-1881) and his mother Catalina Márquez Barraza (1835-1896). He completed high school at Dean Academy in Franklin, Massachusetts, and eventually graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
He died on 14 December 1938 in Mexico City.