Governor of Veracruz
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| Term length | Six years, non-renewable. |
The Governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave". The current governor is Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, who assumed the position on December 1, 2018. He is a member of the National Regeneration Movement.
Term[]
Governors are elected to serve for 6 years and they can not hold the title under any circumstance ever again. The governor takes office on the first day of December of the same electoral year and ends on November 30 six years after.
The State of Veracruz was created on 1824, being one of the original States of the Federation, it has experienced all the Political Systems implemented in Mexico, Federal and Central, thus it has changed its name from "State of" to "Department of" to "State of" again.
List of governors[]
The list with all the governors of the State since 1825 follows.
Nineteenth century[]
Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz[]
- (1825 - 1828): Miguel Barragán
- (1829 - 1829): (First Term)
- (1829 - 1829): Antonio López de Santa Anna (First Term)
- (1829 - 1829): Sebastián Camacho Castilla (Second Term)
- (1829 - 1829): Antonio López de Santa Anna (Second Term)
- (1829 - 1830): Antonio López de Santa Anna (Third Term)
- (1833 - 1833): (First Term)
- (1833 - 1834): Antonio Juille y Moreno (Second Term)
Department of Veracruz[]
From 1834 to 1857 there are no popular-elected Governors due to the Santa Anna's centralist Siete Leyes (Seven Laws).
Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz[]
- (1857 - 1857): (First Term)
- (1857 - 1857): (Interim Governor)
- (1857 - 1861): Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora (Second Term)
- (1861 - 1862): Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos
Veracruz in the Second Empire[]
From 1864 to 1867.
Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz-Llave[]
- (1867 - 1871): (First Term)
- (1871 - 1872): Francisco Hernández y Hernández (Second Term)
- (1872 - 1875):
- (1875 - 1876):
- (1877 - 1880):
- (1880 - 1883):
- (1883 - 1884): (Interim Governor)
- (1884 - 1888): Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara (First Term)
- (1888 - 1892): Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara (Second Term)
- (1892 - 1892): (Interim Governor)
- (1892 - 1892): (Interim Governor)
- (1892 - 1896): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (First Term)
- (1896 - 1900): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Second Term)
- (1900 - 1904): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Third Term)
Twentieth century[]
- (1904 - 1908): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Fourth Term)
- (1908 - 1911): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Fifth Term)
- (1911 - 1911): (Interim Governor)
- (1911 - 1911): León Aillaud (Interim Governor)
- (1911 - 1912): (Interim Governor)
- (1912 - 1912):
- (1912 - 1913):
- (1917 - 1917): (Interim Governor)
- (1917 - 1920):
- (1920 - 1924): Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (First Term)
- (1924 - 1927): Heriberto Jara Corona
- (1927 - 1928):
- (1928 - 1932): Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term)
- (1932 - 1935): Gonzalo Vázquez Vela, National Revolutionary Party, PNR
- (1935 - 1936): (Interim Governor), PNR
- (1936 - 1936): (Interim Governor), PNR
- (1936 - 1939): Miguel Alemán Valdés, PNR
- (1939 - 1940): (Interim Governor)
- (1940 - 1944): Jorge Cerdán Lara, Party of the Mexican Revolution, PRM
- (1944 - 1948): Adolfo Ruíz Cortines, PRM
- (1948 - 1950): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (Interim Governor)
- (1950 - 1956):
PRI - (1956 - 1962): PRI
- (1962 - 1968): Fernando López Arias PRI
- (1968 - 1974): PRI
- (1974 - 1980): Rafael Hernández Ochoa PRI
- (1980 - 1986): PRI
- (1986 - 1988): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios PRI
- (1988 - 1992): Dante Delgado Rannauro (Interim Governor) PRI
- (1992 - 1998): PRI
- (1998 - 2004): Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI
Twenty-first century[]
Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave[]
- (2004 - 2010): Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
- (2010 - 2016): Javier Duarte de Ochoa PRI
- (October 12 - December 1, 2016): Flavino Ríos Alvarado (interim) PRI
- (2016 - 2018): Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares
PAN - (2018 - ): Cuitláhuac García Jiménez
MRN
See also[]
- List of Mexican state governors
- State of Veracruz
References[]
- ^ "Fugitive Mexican governor Javier Duarte arrested for alleged corruption". The Telegraph. 16 April 2017.
- ^ PGR México [@PGR_mx] (7 January 2017). "#Recompensa ¿Tienes información que ayude a la localización y aprehensión de #JavierDuarte?" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Expulsa PRI a Javier Duarte".
- Lists of governors of States of Mexico
- Governors of Veracruz