Juan Sabines Gutiérrez (27 June 1920 – 2 March 1987) was a Mexican politician affiliated with 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 in both chambers of

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and was

governor of Chiapas The Governor of Chiapas is the chief executive of the Mexican state of Chiapas. The state constitution stipulates a term of 6 years, to which governors can only be elected once. It also specifies the qualifications for becoming governor: a Mexic ...

from 1979 to 1982.

Careeer

Juan Sabines Gutiérrez was born in

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez, or Tuxtla, (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexico, Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, which is the most developed and populous in the state. A busy govern ...

Chiapas Chiapas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas, is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises Municipalities of Chiapas, 124 municipalities and its capital and large ...

, in 1920. He served as that city's mayor in 1951–52. He was elected to the

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on three occasions: in 1952, for Chiapas's third district; in 1958, for Chiapas's first district; and in 1979, for Chiapas's eighth district. In the 1970 general election, he was elected to the

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for his home state. He resigned his 1979 seat in Congress when he was appointed interim

on 29 November 1979, replacing

Salomón González Blanco Salomón González Blanco (22 April 1900 – 17 March 1992) was a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served 12 years as Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare, in addition to terms in th ...

. He remained in the position until 30 November 1982. Juan Sabines Gutiérrez died on 2 March 1987, aged 66.

Family

Sabines Gutiérrez was the brother of the poet

Jaime Sabines Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet. Known as “the sniper of Literature” as he formed part of a group that transformed literature into reality, he wrote ten volumes of poetry, and his w ...

. His son,

Juan Sabines Guerrero Juan José Sabines Guerrero (born August 20, 1968) is a Mexican politician, son of the former Governor of Chiapas, Juan Sabines Gutiérrez and nephew of the writer Jaime Sabines. Until, 2006 he was member of the Institutional Revolutionary Par ...

, served as governor of Chiapas in 2006–2012.

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