Jorge Jiménez Cantú (October 27, 1914 – November 10, 2005) was a Mexican physician and politician. A member of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (, , PRI) is a List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 as the National Revolutionary Party (, PNR), then as the Party of the Mexican Revolution (, PRM) and fin ...
(PRI), he served as
Governor of the State of Mexico
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between 1975 and 1981.
He served as
Secretary of Health and Welfare from 1970 to 1975 under President
Luis Echeverria Alvarez.
Early life
Jiménez Cantú was born on October 27, 1914.
In 1931, he joined the National Preparatory School, where he attended high school in biological sciences and served as faculty advisor. He then decided to enter the Faculty of Medicine of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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in 1934.
Career
From 1970 to 1975, he served as
Secretary of Health and Welfare during the presidency of
Luis Echeverría Álvarez
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. In this position, he oversaw the creation of the National Health Plan and National Vaccination Campaign.
He later served as
Governor of the State of Mexico
The governor of the State of Mexico (Spanish: Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de México) wields executive power in the State of Mexico (a.k.a. Edomex).
The Governor of the State of Mexico is directly elected by the citizens, using secret ...
from 1975 to 1981.
Personal life
Jiménez Cantú died on November 10, 2005, at the age of 91.
He was survived by his wife, Luisa Isabel Campos, who later died in 2017.
References
1914 births
2005 deaths
Governors of the State of Mexico
Secretaries of health of Mexico
20th-century Mexican physicians
Physicians from Mexico City
Further reading
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