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See also:
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Events from the year
1928 in Mexico
Incumbents
Federal government
President:
Plutarco Elías Calles
(until
November 30
)
Emilio Portes Gil
(starting
December 1
)
Interior Secretary
(SEGOB):
Adalberto Tejeda
then
Gonzalo Vázquez Vela
then
Emilio Portes Gil
then Felipe Canales
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
(SRE):
Communications Secretary
(SCT): Ramón Ross then Javier Sánchez Mejorada
Education Secretary
(SEP):
José Manuel Puig Casauranc
then
Moisés Sáenz
then
Ezequiel Padilla
Supreme Court
See also:
National Supreme Court of Justice
President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
Aguascalientes
: Isaac Díaz de León (1926-1928), Alberto Díaz de León Bocanegra (1928), Benjamín de la Mora (1928), Manuel Carpio Velázquez (1928-1929)
Campeche
: Silvestre Pavón Silva (1927-1928), Pedro Tello Andueza (1928), Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo (1928-1931)
Chiapas
: Federico Martínez Rojas (1927–1928), Amador Coutiño (1928), Rosendo Delabre Santeliz (1928), Raymundo E. Enríquez (1928-1929)
Chihuahua
: Fernando Orozco (1927-1928), Marcelo Caraveo (1928-1929)
Coahuila
:
Manuel Pérez Treviño
Colima
:
Laureano Cervantes
Durango
:
Guanajuato
: Agustín Arroyo
Guerrero
: Héctor F. López (1925–1928), Enrique Martínez (1928), Adrián Castrejón
National Revolutionary Party
(1928–1933)
Hidalgo
: Matías Rodríguez
Jalisco
: Margarito Ramírez
State of Mexico
: Carlos Riva Palacio
Michoacán
:
: Enrique Ramírez Aviña (1924–1928),
Lázaro Cárdenas
(1928–1929)
Morelos
: Ambrosio Puente (interim)
[
1
]
Nayarit
: José de la Peña Ledón
Nuevo León
: José Benítez
Oaxaca
: Genaro V. Vázquez (1925–1928), Francisco López Cortés (1928–1932)
Puebla
: Donato Bravo Izquierdo
Querétaro
: Abraham Araujo
San Luis Potosí
:
Saturnino Cedillo
Sinaloa
:
vacant
Sonora
: Fausto Topete
Tabasco
: Tomás Taracena Hernández
Tamaulipas
: Juan Rincón
Tlaxcala
:
Ignacio Mendoza
Veracruz
: Abel S. Rodríguez (1927-1928), Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term, 1928-1932)
Yucatán
: Álvaro Torre Díaz
Zacatecas
: Leobardo C. Ruiz
Events
July 1
:
1928 Mexican general election
:
Álvaro Obregón
is elected president for a second time.
[
2
]
July 17
:
Cristero War
:
José de León Toral
, a Roman Catholic who supported the
Cristeros
, assassinates Álvaro Obregón.
[
2
]
December 1
:
Emilio Portes Gil
becomes president.
Sports
1927–28 Primera Fuerza season
, won by
Club América
.
Mexico at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Mexico at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Births
March 19 –
Josefina Leiner
, actress (d. 2017).
March 30 –
Lilia Prado
, actress during the Golden Age of Mexican Cine; (d. 2006)
April 23 –
Olga Harmony
, playwright and drama teacher at the
Escuela Nacional Preparatoria
; (d. 2018).
April 28 –
Evangelina Elizondo
, actress (
Premio Arlequín 2014
; voice of
Cinderella
in the Walt Disney film), (d. October 2, 2017).
May 24 –
Jacobo Zabludovsky
, television anchor (
24 Horas
), (d. July 2, 2015).
July 21 –
Josefina Echánove
, actress, model and journalist
August 23 –
Heberto Castillo
, civil engineer and politician from Veracruz; (d. 1997)
October 5 –
Enrique González Rojo Jr.
, poet, philosopher and teacher (d. March 5, 2021)
[
3
]
October 7 –
Sergio Corona
, actor from Hidalgo
October 24 –
Rafael Barraza Sánchez
, bishop of Mazatlan (1981-2005), born in Durango; (d. 2020)
December 25 – Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from
Ciudad Obregón
, Sonora (d. 2017).
Date unknown
Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician (d. May 20,
2018
).
Melquiades Sánchez Orozco
, journalist and radio announcer (d. November 4, 2018)
Luisa Josefina Hernández
, writer and playwright
Deaths
February 10 –
José Sánchez del Río
, Mexican
Cristero
(b.
1913
)
February 25 –
Toribio Romo González
, Roman Catholic priest (b.
1900
)
April 22 –
José Mora y del Río
, Archbishop of Mexico, died in exile in San Antonio, TX; (b. 1854 in Michoacan)
[
4
]
July 1 –
Atilano Cruz Alvarado
,
Saint of the Cristero War
(b.
1901
)
[
5
]
July 12 – Emilio Carranza, pilot (b. Coahuila 1905)
July 17 –
Álvaro Obregón
, 39th President of Mexico; assassinated after being reelected in 1928 (b.
1880
)
[
6
]
References
↑
"Gobernadores"
.
Gobierno de Morelos
. Retrieved
March 11,
2021
.
1
2
"Álvaro Obregón"
(in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas
. Retrieved
May 29,
2019
.
↑
"Fue homenajeado el poeta Enrique González Rojo por cumplir 80 años"
.
LIBRO CLUB @ Ecatepec
. 5 October 2008
. Retrieved
March 11,
2021
.
↑
"Archbishop José Mora y del Rio
[
Catholic-Hierarchy
]
"
.
www.catholic-hierarchy.org
. Retrieved
September 1,
2020
.
↑
"San Atilano Cruz Alvarado, Pbro | El Camino de los Mártires"
(in Spanish). Camino de los Martires. Archived from
the original
on April 13, 2020
. Retrieved
September 1,
2020
.
↑
"Álvaro Obregón"
(in Spanish). Biografias y Vidas
. Retrieved
May 29,
2019
.
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