List of governors of the
Mexican state
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of
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...
since 1911:
*2021–present
Alfonso Durazo
Alfonso Durazo Montaño (born 11 July 1954) is a Mexican politician who served as chief spokesman and private secretary of President Vicente Fox. Representing the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), he is the current Governor of Sonora.
Ea ...
*2015–2021
Claudia Pavlovich Arellano
*2009–2015
Guillermo Padrés Elías
*2003–2009
Eduardo Bours Castelo
José Eduardo Robinson Bours Castelo (born December 17, 1956) is a Mexican businessman who served as governor of Sonora under the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI. He is a member of the Robinson Bours family which immigrated from the Unit ...
*1997–2003
Armando López Nogales
Armando López Nogales (born 1 September 1950) is a Mexican former lawyer and politician who was the Governor of Sonora from 1997 to 2003 as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He also served as a Senator in the LVI Legislatu ...
*1991–1997
Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera
*1991–1991
Mario Morúa Johnson
*1985–1991
Rodolfo Félix Valdés
*1979–1985
Samuel Ocaña García
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*1975–1979
Alejandro Carrillo Marcor
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*1973–1975
Carlos Armando Biebrich Torres
*1967–1973
Faustino Félix Serna
*1961–1967
Luis Encinas Johnson
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*1955–1961
Álvaro Obregón Tapia
*1949–1955
Ignacio Soto
*1948–1949
Horacio Sobarzo The name Horacio is found sporadically throughout all Latinamerica.
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*1943–1948
Abelardo L. Rodríguez
Abelardo Rodríguez Luján, commonly known as Abelardo L. Rodríguez (; 12 May 1889 – 13 February 1967) was the Substitute President of Mexico from 1932 to 1934. He completed the term of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio after his resignation, ...
,
Party of the Mexican Revolution
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, PRM
*1939–1943
Anselmo Macías Valenzuela, PRM
*1937–1939
Román Yocupicio Valenzuela,
National Revolutionary Party, PNR
*1935–1937
Ramón Ramos
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, PNR
*1931–1935
Rodolfo Elías Calles
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, PNR
*1929–1931
Francisco S. Elías, PNR
*1927–1929
Fausto Topete
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*1923–1927
Alejo Bay
Alejo Bay (1891 – January 30, 1952) was a Mexican Americans, Mexican - American political leader.
Early life
Bay was born in Álamos, Sonora. His father was Thomas Bay, an Irish-American and Confederate States of America, Confederate soldi ...
*1919–1923
Adolfo de la Huerta
Felipe Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor (; 26 May 1881 – 9 July 1955) was a Mexican politician, the 45th President of Mexico from 1 June to 30 November 1920, following the overthrow of Mexican president Venustiano Carranza, with Sonoran generals ...
*1915–1919
Plutarco Elías Calles
Plutarco Elías Calles (25 September 1877 – 19 October 1945) was a general in the Mexican Revolution and a Sonoran politician, serving as President of Mexico from 1924 to 1928.
The 1924 Calles presidential campaign was the first populist ...
*1911–1915
José María Maytorena
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See also
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List of Mexican state governors
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Politics of Mexico
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Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...