Editing Vicente Fox (section)

== Early years ==
Vicente Fox Quesada was born on 2 July 1942 in [[Mexico City]], the second of nine children. His father, José Luis Fox Pont, was a native-born Mexican of [[German Americans|German-American]] descent.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martínez |first=Fabiola |date=1 September 2006 |title=Indagará PGR origen de un acta de nacimiento del padre de Fox |url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/09/01/017n2pol.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604102336/http://www.laprensalatina.com/?p=579 |archive-date=4 June 2008 |access-date=4 June 2007 |newspaper=El periódico de México}}</ref> His mother, Mercedes Quesada Etxaide, was a [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Spanish Basque]] immigrant from [[San Sebastián]], [[Gipuzkoa]]. Fox's family name was originally ''Fuchs'', but was [[Anglicisation of names|anglicized]] to "Fox" at some point. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Louis Fuchs, was born in [[Cincinnati]] in 1865, attended Woodward High School and moved to Mexico at age 32.

Fox spent his childhood and adolescence at the family ranch in [[San Francisco del Rincón]] in [[Guanajuato]]. He spent a year at [[Campion High School]] in [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin]] where he learned English.<ref name="QuesadaAllyn2007">{{cite book|author1=Vicente Fox Quesada|author2=Rob Allyn|title=Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLDDf9vi-esC&pg=PA47|year=2007|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-01839-0|pages=47–}}</ref> Upon reaching college age, Fox moved to Mexico City to attend the [[Universidad Iberoamericana]] and received a bachelor's degree in [[business administration]] in 1964. Then in 1974, Fox received a certificate in management skills from [[Harvard Business School]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Vicente Fox|url=http://www.clubmadrid.org/en/miembro/vicente_fox|access-date=27 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121142347/http://www.clubmadrid.org/en/miembro/vicente_fox|archive-date=21 January 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2001-01-25-0101250188-story.html|title=- Several articles about Mexican President Vicente...|first=Chicago|last=Tribune|date=n.d.|website=Chicago Tribune|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2017/01/08/fox-a-self-made-man-known-for-tart-tongue/|title=Fox a self-made man known for tart tongue|date=8 January 2017|website=Boston Herald|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>

===Business career===
In 1964, Fox was hired by [[the Coca-Cola Company]] as a route supervisor and drove a delivery truck. After nine years, he had risen to the top, serving as the President and Chief Executive of Coca-Cola Mexico; after six years in this role, he was invited to lead all of Coca-Cola's operations in Latin America, but Fox declined and later resigned from Coca-Cola in 1979.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reding|first=Andrew|date=Fall 1996|title=The Next Mexican Revolution|journal=World Policy Journal|volume=13|pages=63|via=ProQuest Central}}</ref> It was during the Fox's leadership of Coca-Cola Mexico that Coke became Mexico's top-selling soft drink, increasing Coca-Cola's sales by almost 50%.<ref name="milner">{{cite news|last=Milner|first=Kate|title=Profile: Vicente Fox|publisher=BBC|date=3 July 2000|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/813206.stm|access-date=4 June 2007}}</ref>

After retiring from Coca-Cola, Fox began to participate in various public activities in Guanajuato, where he created the "Patronato de la Casa Cuna Amigo Daniel", an orphanage. He was also the president of the Patronato Loyola, a sponsor of the [[León, Guanajuato|León]] campus of the [[Universidad Iberoamericana]] and of the Lux Institute.<ref name=UNbio>[http://www.un.int/Mexico/biography_Fox.htm Biography of Vicente Fox] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918011100/http://www.un.int/Mexico/biography_Fox.htm |date=18 September 2012 }}</ref>

===Family life===
In 1969, Fox married Lilian de la Concha, a receptionist at Coca-Cola.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sdpnoticias.com/nacional/2013/10/23/5-cosas-que-debes-saber-sobre-lilian-de-la-concha-ex-esposa-de-fox-y-vinculada-al-cartel-del-milenio|title=5 cosas que debes saber sobre Lilián de la Concha, ex esposa de Fox y vinculada al Cártel del Milenio|date=23 October 2013|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-date=14 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161114024043/http://www.sdpnoticias.com/nacional/2013/10/23/5-cosas-que-debes-saber-sobre-lilian-de-la-concha-ex-esposa-de-fox-y-vinculada-al-cartel-del-milenio|url-status=dead}}</ref> They had four children, Ana Cristina, Vicente, Paulina and Rodrigo.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=BeleJack|first=Barbara|title=Live, from Guanjuato: It's President VICENTE FOX!|magazine=Texas Observer|date=16 February 2001|url=http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=20|access-date=4 June 2007|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194005/http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=20|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1990, after 20 years of marriage, Lilian filed for and was granted a divorce.

Fox remarried on 2 July 2001, while serving as President of Mexico, to [[Marta Sahagún de Fox|Marta María Sahagún Jiménez]] (until then his spokesperson). The wedding date was the first anniversary of his presidential election and his 59th birthday. For both Fox and Sahagún Jiménez, it was their second marriage.