Amalia Solórzano

Who was Amalia Solórzano?

Amalia Solórzano Alejandra Bravo was the First Lady of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. She was the spouse of president Lázaro Cárdenas, the mother of the thrice ex-presidential candidate and former Head of Government of the Federal District, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, and the grandmother of the former Governor of Michoacán, Lázaro Cárdenas Batel.

She was born in Tacámbaro to her parents Candido Solórzano Morales and Albertina Bravo Sosa. She was a leading member of the Aid Committee for Children of the Spanish People, an organisation that helped children who were refugees in France as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War to reach Mexico.

At the time of her death, she was the world's eldest surviving former First Lady, living after occupying the post of First Lady 74 years before, on December 1, 1934. She was also Mexico's ever youngest First Lady, at 23 years old when becoming first lady.