Fernando Ortiz Arana

Fernando Ortiz Arana (born October 26, 1944 in Santiago de Querétaro) is a Mexican politician and long serving legislator affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Fernando Ortiz Arana
Senator for Querétaro
In office 1 November 1994 – 31 August 2000
Preceded by	Ernesto Luque Feregrino
Succeeded by	Francisco Fernández de Cevallos
34th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
In office 30 March 1993 – 13 March 1994
Preceded by	Genaro Borrego Estrada
Succeeded by	Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 1 November 1991 – 30 November 1991
Preceded by	Sami David David
Succeeded by	Rigoberto Ochoa Zaragoza
In office 1 December 1985 – 31 August 1986
Preceded by	Blas Chumacero
Succeeded by	Nicolás Reynés Berazaluce
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Querétaro's 1st district
In office 1 November 1991 – 14 April 1993
Preceded by	Ma. Elena Martínez Carranza
Succeeded by	José D. Olvera Cervantes
In office 1 September 1979 – 31 August 1982
Preceded by	Eduardo D. Ugalde Vargas
Succeeded by	Angélica Paulín Posada
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Federal District's 31st district
In office 1 September 1985 – 31 August 1988
Preceded by	Ma. Luisa Calzada de Campos
Succeeded by	José Luis Alfonso Sampayo
Personal details
Born	(1944-10-26) 26 October 1944 Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
Political party	PRI

Ortiz Arana is the son of José Ortiz Antañana, a real estate agent, and Virginia Arana Morán. He graduated from the Autonomous University of Queretaro in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in law.

He joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1963 and chaired it in the late 1990s. He has also served three terms as a federal congressman, as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1991,[1] one term as a senator and has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1997 and in 2003.