Governor of Yucatán
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Yucatán
Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....
, the exercise of the Executive Power of this Mexican state is placed in a single individual, that Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán who is chosen for a period of 6 years and is not eligible for reelection. The term of governor begins 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.
The Yucátan state 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:
From Independence to the Mexican Revolution
- List currently incomplete
- José Tiburcio López Constante 1825
- Santiago Méndez Ibarra 5 terms, 1840s–1850s
- Miguel BarbachanoMiguel BarbachanoMiguel Barbachano y Tarrazo was a liberal Yucatecan politician, who was 5 times governor of Yucatán between 1841 and 1853....
5 terms, 1841–1853 - Crescencio José Pinel
- Manuel Cepeda Peraza 1860s
- General Protasio Guerra 1877
- José María Iturralde 1878
- Manuel Romero Ancona 1878-1882
- General Octavio Rosado 1882-1886
- General Guillermo Palomino 1886-1889
- Juan Pío Manzano 1889-1890
- Colonel Daniel Traconis 1890-1894
- Carlos Peón Machado 1894-1897
- José María Iturralde 1897-1898
- General Francisco "Pancho" Cantón 1898-1902
- José María Iturralde 1897-1898
- Olegario Molina 1902-1910
- Enrique Muñoz Arístegui (acting) 1907-1910
- José María Pino SuárezJosé María Pino SuárezJosé María Pino Suárez was a Mexican statesman, revolutionary, poet, journalist and jurist who served as Vice President of Mexico , Secreatry of Education and Governor of Yucatán...
1911 - Jesús L. González 1911
- Nicolás Cámara Vales
- Agustín Patrón Correa
- Nicolás Cámara Vales
- Fernando Solís León
- Arcadio Escobedo
- Felipe G. Solís
- Eugenio Rascón
- Prisciliano Cortés
- Eleuterio Ávila
- Toribio de los Santos
- Abel Ortiz Argumedo
- Salvador Alvarado Rubio
- Carlos Castro Morales
- Enrique Recio
- Francisco Vega Loyo
- Tomás Garrido CanabalTomás Garrido CanabalTomás Garrido Canabal , was a Mexican politician and revolutionary. Garrido Canabal served as dictator and governor of the state of Tabasco from 1920 to 1924 and again from 1931 to 1934, and was particularly noted for his anti-Catholic persecution...
- Antonio Ancona Albertos
- Hircano Ayuso O'Horibe
- Manuel Berzunza
Governors of the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatan since the Revolution
- (1922–1924): Felipe Carrillo PuertoFelipe Carrillo PuertoFelipe Carrillo Puerto was a Governor of the Mexican state of Yucatán. He was born in the town of Motul, Yucatán, and was of partly indigenous Mayan background; he was rumored to be a descendant of the Nachi Cocom dynasty of Mayapan. He was a socialist who favored land reform, women's suffrage,...
- (1924–1926): José María Iturralde Traconis
- (1926–1930): Álejandro Torre Díaz
- (1930–1934): Bartolomé García Correa
- (1934–1935): César Alayola Barrera
- (1935–1936): Fernando Cárdenas
- (1936–1938): Florencio Palomo Valencia
- (1938–1942): Humberto Canto Echeverría
- (1942–1946): Ernesto Novelo Torres
- (1946–1951): José González Beytia
- (1951–1952): Humberto Esquivel Medina
- (1952–1953): Tomás Marentes Miranda
- (1953–1958): Víctor Mena Palomo
- (1958–1964): Agustín Franco Aguilar
- (1964–1970): Luis Torres Mesías
- (1970–1976): Carlos Loret de Mola MedizCarlos Loret de Mola MedizCarlos Loret de Mola Mediz a Mexican politician and journalist, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was deputy, senator and Governor of Yucatán. Born on the midst of a humble family...
- (1976–1982): Francisco Luna KanFrancisco Luna KanDr. Francisco Epigmenio Luna Kan is a Mexican politician. Francisco Luna Kan was governor of the state of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982....
- (1982–1984): Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
- (1984–1988): Víctor Cervera PachecoVíctor Cervera PachecoVíctor Cervera Pacheco was a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 1984 to 1988, and again from 1995 through 2001. From 1988 to 1984 Cervera served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform. He died on August 15, 2004, from a heart attack.Cervera was an active member of the...
- (1988–1991): Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
- (1991–1993): Dulce María Sauri RianchoDulce María Sauri RianchoDulce María Sauri Riancho is a Mexican politician who was the first woman to serve as governor of Yucatán, from 1991 through 1994....
- (1993–1994): Ricardo Ávila Heredia
- (1994–1995): Federico Granja Ricalde
- (1995–2001): Víctor Cervera PachecoVíctor Cervera PachecoVíctor Cervera Pacheco was a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 1984 to 1988, and again from 1995 through 2001. From 1988 to 1984 Cervera served as Secretary of Agrarian Reform. He died on August 15, 2004, from a heart attack.Cervera was an active member of the...
- (2001–2007): Patricio Patrón LaviadaPatricio Patrón LaviadaPatricio José Patrón Laviada is a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 2001 to 2007...
- (2007–2012): Ivonne Ortega PachecoIvonne Ortega PachecoIvonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco is a Mexican politician from Yucatán affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the current Governor of Yucatán. She is Yucatan's first elected female governor, although the second to serve, after Dulce María Sauri who served as interim governor from...