José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (born 20 September 1961) is a Mexican
politician
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and
lawyer
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. In 2004, he was elected
Governor of Chihuahua as a member of the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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for the term ending in 2010. Prior to that, he was Chair of Law at the
University of Chihuahua in
Chihuahua. He then served as
mayor (Municipal President) of the city of
Chihuahua from 1998 to 2001 and as a congressman in the federal
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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(Congress).
Personal life and education
José Reyes Baeza Terrazas was born in the city of
Delicias, Chihuahua on 20 September 1961, and became a lawyer by studying law at the
Autonomous University of Chihuahua, graduating with a special mention.
His wife is Claudia Garza.
Career
Reyes Baeza Terrazas was elected mayor of
Chihuahua City
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in 1988. He served as general director of State Civil Pensions, with the task of providing security and social services to state government workers under Governor
Patricio Martínez García from 2001 to 2003.
In 2003 he was elected to the
LVIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, but stepped down in 2004 to run for governor, being elected in July of that year. He became Governor of
Chihuahua on 4 October 2004.
In 2010, after
Mexican drug cartels agents murdered
Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, the governor ordered government troops to guard the state capitol while a closed door session was held on safety.
[
After his term as governor, on 6 December 2012 President ]Enrique Peña Nieto
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appointed him as the head of FOVISSSTE, the social service fund responsible for proving housing support for federal employees.
See also
* Creel-Terrazas Family
References
1961 births
Living people
Governors of Chihuahua (state)
20th-century Mexican lawyers
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Municipal presidents of Chihuahua
People from Delicias, Chihuahua
Autonomous University of Chihuahua alumni
Politicians from Chihuahua (state)
Deputies of the LVIII Legislature of Mexico
Academic staff of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua
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