José Reyes Estrada Aguirre ( Chihuahua, Chihuahua, 1929 –

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, Chihuahua, 31 March 1989) was a Mexican politician, affiliated with the

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(PRI). Between 1980 and 1983, he served as

municipal president of Ciudad Juárez A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the gov ...

. José Reyes Estrada was schooled in the city of Chihuahua and in

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, and studied law at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) in

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. After earning his degree, he relocated his family to

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, in 1968, where he served as a

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. He later held positions as the secretary and the treasurer of the Juárez municipal government and, in 1962, was appointed private secretary to

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Práxedes Ginér Durán. He later became a

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and, in 1976, he was elected to the federal

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for Chihuahua's third district, serving in the 50th Congress from 1976 to 1979. At the end of his period in Congress, he was appointed the regional delegate of the Secretariat of Commerce in Ciudad Juárez. He was elected

municipal president A ''presidente municipal'' ( English: "municipal president") is the chief of government of municipios in Mexico. This title was also used in the Philippines during the Spanish and American colonial periods; it is comparable to a mayor of the tow ...

(

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) of Juárez in 1980 and took office on 10 October of that year. During his time as mayor, he oversaw the construction of the new city hall. At the end of his mandate, he was replaced as mayor by

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, the first ever non-PRI municipal president of Juárez. Reyes Estrada died in Ciudad Juárez on 31 March 1989. His son,

José Reyes Ferriz José Reyes Estrada Ferriz (born 23 July 1961 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as the municipal president of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, from 2007 to 2010. J ...

, served as

from 2007 to 2010.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reyes Estrada Aguirre, Jose Municipal presidents of Juárez 1929 births 1989 deaths Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Chihuahua (state) 20th-century Mexican politicians Politicians from Chihuahua City National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Deputies of the L Legislature of Mexico