José González Torres

José González Torres (16 September 1919 – 1 November 1998) was a Mexican politician, lawyer, and president of the National Action Party.

Biography
González Torres was born on 16 September 1919 in Cotija de la Paz. He studied from primary to high school in the city of Guadalajara. In the 1940s, González Torres moved to Mexico City, where he studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, graduating as a lawyer in 1945. He was a history professor at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.

From 1947 to 1949, he was world president of the international organization Pax Romana, based in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1963, the former chaplain of Pax Romana-Italia, Giovanni Battista Montini, was elected Pope of the Catholic Church, taking the name Paul VI.

From 1949 to 1952, he was president of Mexican Catholic Action.

He was General Secretary of the National Action Party between 1956 and 1958, and president of the party from 1959 to 1962.

In the 1964 Mexican general election, he was the party's candidate for the presidency.

He was elected federal deputy in the LII legislature of the Congress of the Union (1982–1985).

Pope Pius XII named him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

In 1988, he received an honorary doctorate in canon law from the Salesian Pontifical University of Rome.

He died on 1 November 1998 in Cancún aged 79.