Alejandro González Alcocer (born April 24, 1951) is a Mexican politician and lawyer, belonging to the National Action Party (PAN). After Alcocer studied law at

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

(UNAM), he began his career in companies in the private sector, and later entered politics, where he served as Secretario del Ayuntamiento of

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, and later as a federal deputy ''(diputado federal)'' in the 56th Federal Legislature. González Alcocer is the son of Manuel González Hinojosa, national head of the PAN in the 1960s and 70s. On October 7, 1998, he was named Substitute Governor of

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upon the death of governor

Héctor Terán Terán Héctor Téran Terán (3 April 1931 – 4 October 1998) was a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Baja California from 1995 to 1998. A member of the National Action Party (PAN), he was the second member of his party to govern the s ...

. He was elected to the

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, representing Baja California, for the period between 2006–2012.

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The biography of Alejandro González Alcocer as Governor of Baja California
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