Teófeo Torres Corzo (9 August 1946 – 15 October 2023) was a Mexican lawyer, businessman and 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). Torres Corzo was born in the city of

San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí, is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 59 municipalities and is named after its capital city, San Luis Potosí. It ...

in 1946. In the 1985 mid-term election, he was elected to the

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for

's 1st district, and in 1991, he served as the interim

governor of San Luis Potosí The governor of San Luis Potosí exercises the role of the executive branch of government in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí, per the Political Constitution of the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí. The official title is Goberna ...

following the resignation of Fausto Zapata.Muere Teófilo Torres Corzo, ex gobernador de San Luis Potosí
In the 2012 general election, he was elected to the

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for San Luis Potosí, where he served during the 62nd and 63rd sessions of

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. Teófilo Torres Corzo died on 15 October 2023, at the age of 77.

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1946 births 2023 deaths Governors of San Luis Potosí Presidents of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 20th-century Mexican politicians Politicians from San Luis Potosí Politicians from San Luis Potosí City Members of the Congress of San Luis Potosí Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí alumni Deputies of the LIII Legislature of Mexico Senators of the LXII and LXIII Legislatures of Mexico Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub