The governor, according to the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of

Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

in Mexico, the Executive Power is invested in one individual, called "''Constitutional Governor of the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave''". The current governor is Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, who assumed the position on December 1, 2018. He is a member of the National Regeneration Movement.

Term

Governors are elected to serve for 6 years and they can not hold the title under any circumstance ever again. The governor takes office on the first day of December of the same electoral year and ends on November 30 six years after. The State of Veracruz was created on 1824, being one of the original States of the Federation, it has experienced all the political systems implemented in Mexico,

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and centralism, thus it has changed its name from "State of" to "Department of" to "State of" again.

List of governors

The list with all the governors of the State since 1825 follows.

Nineteenth century

Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz

* (1825 - 1828):

Miguel Barragán Miguel Francisco Barragán Andrade (8 March 1789 – 1 March 1836) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim president of Mexico in 1836. He had previously served as Governor of Veracruz, and gained national fame for the capture ...

* (1829 - 1829): Sebastián Camacho Castilla (First Term) * (1829 - 1829): Antonio López de Santa Anna (First Term) * (1829 - 1829): Sebastián Camacho Castilla (Second Term) * (1829 - 1829): Antonio López de Santa Anna (Second Term) * (1829 - 1830): Antonio López de Santa Anna (Third Term) * (1833 - 1833): Antonio Juille y Moreno (First Term) * (1833 - 1834): Antonio Juille y Moreno (Second Term)

Department of Veracruz

From 1834 to 1857 there are no popular-elected governors due to Santa Anna's centralist ''

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Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz

* (1857 - 1857):

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(First Term) * (1857 - 1857): José de Emparán (Interim Governor) * (1857 - 1861): Manuel Gutiérrez Zamora (Second Term) * (1861 - 1862): Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos

Veracruz in the Second Empire

From 1864 to 1867.

Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz-Llave

* (1867 - 1871):

Francisco Hernández y Hernández Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

(First Term) * (1871 - 1872): Francisco Hernández y Hernández (Second Term) * (1872 - 1875): Francisco Landero y Cos * (1875 - 1876): José María Mena Isassi * (1877 - 1880): Luis Mier y Terán * (1880 - 1883): Apolinar Castillo * (1883 - 1884): José Cortés Frías (Interim Governor) * (1884 - 1888): Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara (First Term) * (1888 - 1892): Juan de la Luz Enríquez Lara (Second Term) * (1892 - 1892): Manuel Leví (Interim Governor) * (1892 - 1892):

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(Interim Governor) * (1892 - 1896):

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (October 1, 1848 – September 25, 1936) was the Governor of the state of Veracruz in Mexico for five terms from 1892 to 1911. Early years Teodoro Dehesa was the son of Teodoro Dehesa y Bayona, an Aragonese pastry ...

(First Term) * (1896 - 1900): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Second Term) * (1900 - 1904): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Third Term)

Twentieth century

* (1904 - 1908): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Fourth Term) * (1908 - 1911): Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez (Fifth Term) * (1911 - 1911): Emilio Léycegui (Interim Governor) * (1911 - 1911): León Aillaud (Interim Governor) * (1911 - 1912):

Manuel María Alegre Manuel may refer to: People * Manuel (name) * Manuel (Fawlty Towers), a fictional character from the sitcom ''Fawlty Towers'' * Charlie Manuel, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies * Manuel I Komnenos, emperor of the Byzantine Empire * Manu ...

(Interim Governor) * (1912 - 1912):

Francisco Lagos Cházaro Mortero Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...

* (1912 - 1913):

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* (1917 - 1917):

Mauro Loyo Sánchez Mauro may refer to: Given name * Mauro (footballer, born 1932), Brazilian footballer * Mauro Silva (footballer, born 1978), Brazilian footballer * Mauro (footballer, born 1984), Portuguese footballer * Bruno Mauro (born 1973), Angolan footballer * ...

(Interim Governor) * (1917 - 1920):

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* (1920 - 1924):

Adalberto Tejeda Olivares Sixto Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (28 March 1883 – 8 September 1960) was a Mexican politician, who served two terms (1920–1924 and 1928–1932) as Governor of Veracruz. He was born in Chicontepec de Tejeda, Veracruz. During the Mexican Revoluti ...

(First Term) * (1924 - 1927): Heriberto Jara Corona * (1927 - 1928): Abel S. Rodríguez * (1928 - 1932): Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term) * (1932 - 1935):

Gonzalo Vázquez Vela Gonzalo Vázquez Vela (July 3, 1893 - November 7, 1963) was a Mexican politician. He was governor of Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llav ...

, National Revolutionary Party, PNR * (1935 - 1936): Guillermo Rebolledo (Interim Governor), PNR * (1936 - 1936): Ignacio Herrera Tejeda (Interim Governor), PNR * (1936 - 1939): Miguel Alemán Valdés, PNR * (1939 - 1940): Fernando Casas Alemán (Interim Governor) * (1940 - 1944): Jorge Cerdán Lara, Party of the Mexican Revolution, PRM * (1944 - 1948): Adolfo Ruíz Cortines, PRM * (1948 - 1950): Ángel Carvajal Bernal (Interim Governor) * (1950 - 1956):

Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull Marco may refer to: People * Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco * Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor * Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin * Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish c ...

* (1956 - 1962): Antonio María Quirasco * (1962 - 1968):

Fernando López Arias Fernando López Arias (August 8, 1905 – July 3, 1978) was a Mexican politician and governor of Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( ...

* (1968 - 1974):

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* (1974 - 1980):

Rafael Hernández Ochoa Rafael Hernández Ochoa (June 4, 1915 – May 18, 1990) was a Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Veracruz, from 1 December 1974 to 30 November 1980. Biography He was born in Santa Gertrudis, in municipality of Vega de Alatorre, Veracruz, ...

* (1980 - 1986):

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* (1986 - 1988): Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios * (1988 - 1992): Dante Delgado Rannauro (Interim Governor) * (1992 - 1998):

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* (1998 - 2004): Miguel Alemán Velasco

Twenty-first century

Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave

* (2004 - 2010): Fidel Herrera Beltrán * (2010 - 2016): Javier Duarte de Ochoa ** Note: In October 2016, Duarte was declared a criminal by the Mexican government and was arrested in April 2017. The PRI issued an apology and expelled him from the political party. * (October 12 - November 30, 2016):

Flavino Ríos Alvarado Flavino Ríos Alvarado (born December 22, 1950) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as the Interim Governor of Veracruz from October 12 to November 30, 2016. Life Ríos was born in Minatitl ...

(interim) * (2016 - 2018):

Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares (born December 5, 1952) is a Mexican politician and former Governor of Veracruz from 2016 to 2018. Biography Early political career in the PRI Yunes graduated from the Universidad Veracruzana with a law degree in ...

* (2018 - ): Cuitláhuac García Jiménez

References

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