Felix Fulgencio Palavicini (31 March 1881 – 11 February 1952) was a Mexican Anti-Reelectionist Party politician during the Mexican Revolution.
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Felix Fulgencio Palavicini was born in Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico in 1881, and he moved to Mexico City in 1903 to work as a journalist. In 1907, after studying pedagogy in Europe, he was hired at the Ministry of Public Instruction. In 1908, he became editor of the El Partido Republicano newspaper and became a leader of the Anti-Reelectionist Party, holding its Secretariat. He later replaced Jose Vasconcelos as director of El Antireeleccionista newspaper, supporting Francisco I. Madero's 1910 presidential campaign. After Porfirio Diaz's crackdown on the Anti-Reelectionists, Palavicini decided to disavow his earlier views and side with Diaz, and he was thus excluded from Madero's government during the Mexican Revolution. He served as Secretary of Education from 1915 to 1916 and as a deputy from 1916 to 1918, defending Venustiano Carranza's moderate programme against his radical "Jacobin" opponents. He later returned to journalism and was exiled by Plutarco Elias Calles in 1927, spending his exile in Havana and Paris. Under President Lazaro Cardenas, he served as Ambassador to Argentina from 1939 to 1940 before being recalled due to his corrupt sale of bonds to Spanish Civil War refugees, and he died in Mexico City in 1952.