Saúl González Herrera (14 November 1915 in Vicente Guerrero,

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– 22 October 2006 in

, Chihuahua) was a

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lawyer and politician, affiliated with the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Chihuahua from 1985 to 1986. Saúl González Herrera had extensive experience in

state politics. He served as Rector of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua from 1959 to 1962, served in the federal

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during the

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(1964 to 1967), and was General Director of the state-controlled corporation Productos Forestales de la Tarahumara (PROFORTARAH) In 1980 Governor

Óscar Ornelas Óscar Ornelas Küchle (born Chihuahua, Chih., 30 November 1920 – died 2000) was a Mexican lawyer and politician and member of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as governor of Chihuahua from 1980 to 1985. Óscar Ornel ...

appointed him State Treasurer; following Ornelas's forced resignation from the governorship on 19 September 1985, González Herrera was appointed interim governor to complete his six-year mandate. During González's period as governor, the 1986 state election was held, which saw Francisco Barrio Terrazas of the National Action Party (PAN) compete against

Fernando Baeza Meléndez Fernando Baeza Meléndez (born January 21, 1942 in Delicias, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Baeza served as the Governor of Chihuahua from 1986 to 1992. In 1986, was elected Gover ...

of the PRI; the official result was a victory for the latter, but suspicions of electoral fraud marred the election and Baeza Meléndez's time in office. Saúl González was elected to the

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for the period 1988–94, representing Chihuahua for the PRI. In 1994 he was elected to the

for Chihuahua's Fifth District to serve during the

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. At the end of his senatorial period, he returned to his private practice as a notary public. He died on 22 October 2006 in the city of

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