Alberto Víctor Aldrete was a Mexican politician. He was governor of the North Territory of Baja California (now the state of

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) from 1946 to 1947. He was born in

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. In 1916, Alberto Víctor Aldrete founded a customs service agency in Tijuana and together with R. J. Walters and Paul J. Lindley created the Compañía de Tranvías de Tijuana, S. A., (Tijuana Streetcar Company, Inc.) with a capital of 5,000 pesos. Aldrete also had an interest in the

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.Incorporation documents for the Compañía de Tranvías de Tijuana, S. A., Registro Público de la Propiedad y del Comercio de Tijuana (Public register of Property and Commerce, Tijuana), sección comercio, tomo i, inscripción 8, 15 September 1916, folio/pages 9–10. There is a street named after him (a cross street of

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) in Downtown Tijuana.

References

* Héctor Mejorado de la Torre, ''Alberto V. Aldrete. Trayectoria empresarial y sus vínculos con la elite política (1914–1948)'', master's thesis in History, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas y Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales,

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, 2014, pp. 66–71. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aldrete, Alberto Victor Governors of Baja California People from Ensenada, Baja California Railway executives Mexican transportation businesspeople Year of birth missing Year of death missing 20th-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Baja California