Governor of Yucatán

Governor of Yucatán
Governor of Yucatán
	Seal of the State of Yucatán
	Incumbent; Mauricio Vila Dosal; since October 1, 2018
Type	State governor
Term length	Six years, non-renewable.
Constituting instrument	Popular election
Formation	1546
First holder	Francisco de Montejo
Deputy	Maria Dolores Fritz Sierra - Secretary-General of Government.
Salary	$95,532 mexican pesos MXN (2019)
Website	Official website

The Governor of the State of Yucatan is the head of the executive branch of this Yucatán, who is chosen for a period of a 6 years-term not eligible for reelection. The figure of the Governor is established on the Constitution of the State of Yucatan on its Title Fifth. The term of the Governor begins on October 1 of the year of the election and finishes September 30, six years later.

The same constitution empowers those individuals to be elected Governor who have held the title of executive power but in a different way to the popular election, namely the interim, or temporary replacements. The latter has caused controversies and political conflicts, because in the view of several instances is in conflict with a precept of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States that stipulates that no state governor may hold power for more than six years.^[2]

List of governors of Yucatan[]

The state of Yucatán was created on January 31, 1824, being one of the original states of the federation, which along their history has passed through all the systems of government in place in Mexico: the federal system as the central system, so that the name of the entity has varied between state and department; varying with it, the name of the holder of the executive branch of the State.

Individuals who have occupied the governorship in the state of Yucatán, in its various denominations, have been:

16th century[]

(1526 - 1540): Francisco de Montejo. Adelantado.
(1540 - 1546): Francisco de Montejo the Younger. Captain General.
(1546 - 1549): Francisco de Montejo. Adelantado.
(1550 - 1552): Gaspar Juárez de Ávila- First Mayor
(1552 - 1553): Tomás López Medel
(1553 - 1554): Francisco de Montejo the Younger. Captain General and governor.
(1554 - 1554): Francisco Tamayo Pacheco
(1554 - 1555): Álvaro Carvajal
(1555 - 1558): Alonso Ortiz Delgueta
(1558 - 1559): Juan de Paredes
(1560 - 1560): García Jufré de Loaiza
(1561 - 1564): - First Mayor appointed directly by the king.
(1565 - 1571): Luis de Céspedes y Oviedo (first Captain General of Yucatán).
(1571 - 1572): Diego de Santillán
(1573 - 1576): Francisco de Velásquez Gijón
(1577 - 1581): Guillén de las Casas
(1582 - 1592): Francisco de Solís
(1593 - 1596): Alonso Ordóñez de Nevares
(1596 - 1597): Carlos de Sámano y Quiñónez

17th century[]

(1598 - 1604):
(1604 - 1612):
(1612 - 1617):
(1617 - 1619): (first Captain General of Yucatán)
(1620 - 1621):
(1621 - 1628):
(1628 - 1630):
(1630 - 1631): , oidor of Real Audiencia de México
(1631 - 1633): (interim)
(1633 - 1635):
(1635 - 1636): (interim)
(1636 - 1636):
(1636 - 1643):
(1643 - 1644): Francisco Núñez Melián
(1644 - 1645): Enrique Dávila Pacheco (interim)
(1645 - 1648):
(1648 - 1650): Enrique Dávila Pacheco (interim)
(1650 - 1652):
(1652 - 1653): (interim)
(1653 - 1654): (interim)
(1655 - 1660):
(1660 - 1662):
(1663 - 1664): (interim)
(1664 - 1664):
(1664 - 1667): (interim)
(1667 - 1669):
(1669 - 1670): (interim)
(1670 - 1672):
(1672 - 1674): ()
(1674 - 1677):
(1677 - 1679):
(1679 - 1680): (interim)
(1680 - 1683):
(1683 - 1688):
(1688 - 1692):
(1693 - 1695):
(1695 - 1696): Martín de Urzúa y Arizmendi
(1696 - 1699):
(1699 - 1703): Martín de Urzúa y Arizmendi

18th century[]

(1703 - 1706): (interim)
(1706 - 1708): Martín de Urzúa y Arizmendi
(1708 - 1712):
(1712 - 1715):
(1715 - 1720):
(1720 - 1724):
(1725 - 1733):
(1733 - 1734):
(1734 - 1736): (interim)
(1736 - 1742):
(1743 - 1750): Antonio Benavides Bazán y Molina
(1750 - 1752):
(1752 - 1758): Melchor de Navarrete
(1758 - 1761): Alonso Fernández de Heredia
(1761 - 1762): . Put down the rebellion and determined the torture and death of Jacinto Canek, leader Maya.
(1762 - 1763): (interim)
(1763 - 1763): (substitute)
(1763 - 1764):
(1764 - 1764): (substitute)
(1764 - 1770): (interim)
(1771 - 1776):
(1777 - 1777):
(1778 - 1778):
(1779 - 1779): (substitute)
(1779 - 1782): (interim)
(1783 - 1789):
(1789 - 1792):
(1792 - 1792): (substitute)
(1792 - 1793): (interim)
(1793 - 1800): Arturo O'Neill y O'Kelly

19th century[]

(1800 - 1810): (start of war of independence of México)
(1811 - 1812): (lieutenant governor and acting governor, con Antonio Bolo)
(1812 - 1812): (King's lieutenant governor and acting governor)
(1812 - 1815):
(1815 - 1819):
(1820 - 1820):
(1821 - 1821): (last Spanish governor of Yucatán, from 1 January 1821 to November 8 of that year)
(1821 - 1822): . independent Mexico, pre-constitutional period.
(1822 - 1822):
(1822 - 1823): . pre-constitutional period.
(1823 - 1823):
(June 1, 1823 - April 23, 1824): Interim Governing Board, chaired by
(1824 - 1824): (interim)

From independence to the Mexican Revolution[]

As of 2020 August 27List currently incomplete

José Tiburcio López Constante 1825
Santiago Méndez Ibarra 5 terms, 1840s-1850s
Miguel Barbachano 5 terms, 1841-1853
1860s
1877
1878
1878-1882
1882-1886
1886-1889
Juan Pío Manzano 1889-1890
1890-1894
1894-1897
1897-1898
1898-1902
1897-1898
1902-1910
Enrique Muñoz Arístegui (acting) 1907-1910
José María Pino Suárez 1911
1911
Salvador Alvarado Rubio 1915-1918
Tomás Garrido Canabal

Governors of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatan since the Revolution[]

(1922–1924): Felipe Carrillo Puerto
(1924–1926):
(1926–1930):
(1930–1934): , National Revolutionary Party, PNR
(1934–1935): , PNR
(1935–1936): Fernando Cárdenas, PNR
(1936–1938): , PNR
(1938–1942): , Party of the Mexican Revolution, PRM
(1942–1946): , PRM
(1946–1951): PRI
(1951–1952): PRI
(1952–1953): PRI
(1953–1958): PRI
(1958–1964): PRI
(1964–1970): PRI
(1970–1976): Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz PRI
(1976–1982): Francisco Luna Kan PRI
(1982–1984): PRI
(1984–1988): Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
(1988–1991): Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer PRI
(1991–1993): Dulce María Sauri Riancho PRI
(1993–1994): PRI
(1994–1995): PRI
(1995–2001): Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
(2001–2007): Patricio Patrón Laviada PAN
(2007–2012): Ivonne Ortega Pacheco PRI
(2012–2018): Rolando Zapata Bello PRI
(2018–2024): Mauricio Vila Dosal PAN

References[]

^ Official Salaries for the State Departments' Authorities Government of the State of Yucatan. Retrieved on 18 October 2019. In Spanish.
^ Political Constitution of the State of Yucatan In spanish. Retrieved on 18 October 2019.

"Table of Yucatan's Governors During the Porfiriato," in Alan Wells and Gilbert Joseph, Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Insurgency in Yucatán, 1876-1915 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), 23.

[1] Official Salaries for the State Departments' Authorities Government of the State of Yucatan. Retrieved on 18 October 2019. In Spanish.

[2] Political Constitution of the State of Yucatan In spanish. Retrieved on 18 October 2019.

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