Draft:Lomelí family

The Lomelí family is a Mexican political family of Italian descent that has long been prominent in Mexican politics. The family's progenitor, merchant Carlo Lomellini immigrated from Genoa to the Mexican state of Jalisco in the early 17th century. The Lomelí family underwent a process of cultural assimilation during the viceroyalty of Nueva Galicia and the Porfiriato regimes.

Colonial Era
The Lomelí family originated from Genoa and traded with the viceroyalty New Galicia in 17th century colonial Mexico. Carlo’s father, Vincenzo Lomellini was head of the Di Lomellini & Marini Group, a trading company based in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. The family settled in Los Altos de Jalisco where Carlo married Maria de Benavides. Pedro de Barrientos Lomelin was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Bishop of Durango in 1655. The Lomelí family dispersed to the rest of the Bajío region where their surname was hispanicized to "Lomelín". Carlo’s niece married Juan de Villaseñor, descendant of Miguel Hidalgo Villaseñor, Father of the Mexican War of Independence.

Porfiriato Era
In the late 19th century, the Porfiriato regime imposed assimilation policies that rehispanicized the family’s surname to "Lomelí", as well as the surnames of Lebanese Mexicans and Southern Italian immigrants receiving land grants from the Mexican federal government. These policies were part of General Porfirio Diaz’s goal of consolidating a Catholic-Hispanic identity in Mexico.

Notable members

 * Carlos Lomelí Bolaños (born 1959) is a Mexican politician affiliated with Morena party. He served as a federal deputy in the 63rd federal legislature.


 * Jesús Lomelí (born 1953) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress as a plurinominal representative.


 * Luis Felipe Lomelí (born 1975) is a Mexican writer and poet. He is best known for his flash fiction work "El emigrante" (The Migrant – 2005) and for the collection Todos santos de California (All Saints of California – 2002), which won the San Luis Potosí National Award for Best Short Story.