1929 in Mexico

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Events from the year 1929 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Emilio Portes Gil
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Felipe Canales
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Javier Sánchez Mejorada
• Education Secretary (SEP): Ezequiel Padilla

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Manuel Carpio Velázquez (PNR)
• Campeche: Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo
• Chiapas: : Raymundo E. Enríquez (1928–1929), Ernesto Constantino Herrera (1929), Alvaro Cancino (1929)
• Chihuahua: 1928 - 1929: Marcelo Caraveo (1928-1929), Luis L. León (1929), Francisco R. Almada (1929), Luis L. León (1929), Francisco R. Almada (1929-1930)
• Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño (1925-1929), es:Nazario S. Ortiz Garza (PNR, 1929–1933)
• Colima: Laureano Cervantes
• Durango:
• Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
• Guerrero: Adrián Castrejón (PNR)
• Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez (1925–1929), Bartolomé Vargas Lugo (1929–1933)
• Jalisco: Margarito Ramírez (1927–1929), José María Cuellar (1929–1930)
• State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio, (1925–1929), Filiberto Gómez (PNR, 1929–1933)
• Michoacán: : Lázaro Cárdenas (1928–1929), Dámaso Cárdenas del Río (1929–1930)
• Morelos: Ambrosio Puente (interim)
• Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
• Nuevo León: Plutarco Elías Calles (son) (PNR, 1929), National Revolutionary Party, PNR, Generoso Chapa Garza, (PNR 1929), Aarón Sáenz, (PNR, 1929–1931)
• Oaxaca: Francisco López Cortés
• Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo (1927-1929), Leónides Andrew Almazán (PNR, 1929-1932)
• Querétaro: Abraham Araujo (1927-1929), Ángel Vázquez Mellado (1929), Ramón Anaya (1929-1931)
• San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
• Sinaloa: Macario Gaxiola (PNR)
• Sonora: Fausto Topete (1927–1929), Francisco S. Elías (PNR, 1929–1931)
• Tabasco: vacant
• Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón (1928–1929), Baudelio Villanueva (PNR), Francisco Castellanos (PNR, 1929–1933)
• Tlaxcala: Ignacio Mendoza (1925-1929), Adrián Vázquez Sánchez (PRI, 1929-1933)
• Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term)
• Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
• Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz

Events

• March 3 – Escobar Rebellion: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre, challenging the power of Plutarco Elías Calles, ends in failure. ^[1]
• June 21 – Cristero War: The Mexican government and Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres sign an agreement which allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics, bringing an end to the Cristero War.
• November 17 – 1929 Mexican presidential election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Ongoing

• Mexican Repatriation (1929–1936) ^[5]

Births

• January 4 – Aldo Monti, actor (died 2016)
• February 24 – Modesta Lavana, healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan (died 2010)
• March 24 – Ángela Gurría, sculptor (died 2023)
• April 5 – Vicente García Bernal, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (1988–2005). (died 2017)
• April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress (died 2017)
• July 28 – José Solé, stage actor and director (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) (d. 2017)
• August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor (died 1987)
• October 17 — Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher (d. 2018).
• November 18 — Francisco Savín, composer and director of Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (1963-1967); (d. 2018).
• Date unknown — Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico (d. 2018)

Deaths

• 10 January – Julio Antonio Mella, activist
• March 20 – Miguel Alemán González, general (born 1884) ^[6]

Date unknown

• Benigno Montoya Muñoz, architect, sculptor and painter (b. 1865)

References

1. Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter (2010). Wings over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend. University of Texas. ISBN   0292787812.
2. "Las elecciones de 1929". Reconoce MX. Archived from the original on July 3, 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
3. Gil Olmos, José. "Un siglo de fraudes". Proceso. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
4. Ramales Osorio, M.C. "MÉXICO: FRAUDES ELECTORALES, AUTORITARISMO Y REPRESIÓN Del Estado benefactor al Estado neoliberal" . Retrieved 19 August 2018.
5. Hoffman, Abraham (1974-01-01). Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939. VNR AG. ISBN   9780816503667.
6. "Miguel Alemán González (1884-1929)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved March 9, 2017.