- Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada was the President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. He was elected in the 2000 presidential election, a historically significant election that made him the first president elected from an opposition party since Álvaro Obregón in 1920. The 2000 election was also significant because it was the first presidential election since the end of the Mexican Revolution to be considered clean and fair. He was elected with 42 percent of the vote, …
- Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León was President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000.
- Felipe Calderón
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa is the President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without the possibility of re-election. He is affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN), a mostly conservative organization with a tendency toward more liberal economic ideas, and linked through Manuel Espino to the neo-fascist movement El Yunque, …
- Venustiano Carranza
Venustiano Carranza Garza (December 29 1859 - May 21 1920) was one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico and during his administration the current constitution of Mexico was drafted
- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born April 3, 1948 in Mexico City) was President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
- Victoriano Huerta
José Victoriano Huerta Márquez (Colotlán, Jalisco, December 23, 1850, - January 13, 1916 in El Paso, Texas) was a Mexican military officer and president of Mexico. Huerta was born in the town of Colotlán, Jalisco, son of Jesús Huerta and Refugio Márquez who were of Mestizo descent. He entered the Mexican Army at the age of 17, distinguished himself and gained admission to the Military Academy at Chapultepec.
- Benito Juárez
Benito Pablo Juárez García (March 21, 1806 - July 18, 1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms (1858-1861), (1861-1865), (1865-1867), (1867-1871), and (1871-1872), as President of Mexico. For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing the Empire, and restoring the Republic, as well as his efforts to modernize the country, Juárez is often regarded as Mexico's greatest and most beloved leader.
- Porfirio Díaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 - 2 July 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and President. He ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1880 and from 1884 to 1911.
- Miguel de la Madrid
Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado was President of Mexico, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from 1982 to 1988. De la Madrid studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Public Administration at Harvard University in the United States. He worked for Mexico's central bank and taught law at the UNAM before securing a position at the treasury in 1965. Between 1970 and 1972 he was employed by Pemex, …
- Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Lázaro Cárdenas was born into a lower-middle class family in the village of Jiquilpan, Michoacán. He supported his family (including his mother and 7 younger siblings) from age 16 on after the death of his father. By the age of 18 he had worked as a tax collector, a printer's devil, and a jailkeeper. Although he left school at the age of eleven, …
- Luis Ernesto Derbez
Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista is a Mexican politician. Upon assuming power in December 2000, President Vicente Fox chose him to serve as his Secretary of Economy. In January 2003, following the resignation of Jorge Castañeda, Derbez took over as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, a position that he held until President Vicente Fox's term ended on December 1, 2006.
- Luis Echeverría
Luis Echeverría Álvarez served as the President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976. Echeverría joined the faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1947 and taught political theory. He rose in the hierarchy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and eventually became the private secretary of the party president, General Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada. Echeverría served as Interior Secretary under President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz from 1964 to 1970.
- Francisco I. Madero
Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce. However, once Díaz was deposed, the Mexican Revolution quickly spun out of Madero's control.
- José López Portillo
José López Portillo y Pacheco ("JOLOPO") was the President of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. Born in Mexico City, López Portillo studied medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1959. He held several positions in the administrations of his two predecessors before being appointed to serve as finance minister under Luis Echeverría, a close friend, from 1973 to 1975.
- Vicente Guerrero
Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña was one of the leaders of Mexico's struggle for independence from Spain and an early President of Mexico. He was born in the town of Tixtla, some 100 km inland from the port of Acapulco, in the Sierra Madre del Sur. He was from a poor zambo (mixed Amerindian, Spanish, and African descent) family. (See historian William Loren Katz.) He joined in the early revolt against Spain in 1810, …
- Álvaro Obregón
General Álvaro Obregón Salido was President of Mexico from 1920 to 1924. Born in "Hacienda de Siquisiva", in Navojoa, Sonora, to an Irish-Mexican ranching family, he entered politics in 1911 with his election as mayor of the town of Huatabampo. At the time, he supported President Francisco I. Madero against a revolt led by Pascual Orozco.
- Plutarco Elías Calles
Plutarco Elías Calles was a Mexican general and politician. He was president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928. Calles founded the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (National Revolutionary Party, or PNR) – it eventually became Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) –, which governed Mexico from its founding until 2000.
- Guadalupe Victoria
Guadalupe Victoria, born José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix in the state of Durango, served as the first President of Mexico from 1824 to 1829. Born in Tamazula, Durango, he studied Law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso. In 1811 he joined the revolution proclaimed by Miguel Hidalgo and fought under José María Morelos y Pavón. After Morelos' execution he fought in Oaxaca and Veracruz. After his defeat near the town of Palmillas, Veracruz, …
- Adolfo de la Huerta
Adolfo de la Huerta Marcor (26 May 1881 - 9 July 1955) was a Mexican politician and interim President of Mexico from June 1 to December 1 1920. As Governor of the northern state of Sonora he lead the Revolution of Agua Prieta that put an end to the presidency of Venustiano Carranza who was killed during the revolt. It was then that de la Huerta was appointed interim President by congress.
- Santiago Creel
Santiago Creel Miranda is a Mexican politician. He is a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). He earned a Law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His career highlights include running for Head of Government of the Federal District in 2000 (a race he lost to Andrés Manuel López Obrador). After that he was appointed to the cabinet by President Vicente Fox to serve as Secretary of the Interior, …
- Francisco Labastida
Francisco Labastida Ochoa (born August 14, 1942 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox. He was born to Gloria Ochoa de Labastida and Dr. Eduardo Labastida Kofahl.
- Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños Cacho served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. After Díaz Ordaz Mexicans did not elect a president who had previously been elected to an office until the presidential election of Vicente Fox in 2000.
- Manuel Ávila Camacho
Manuel Ávila Camacho served as the President of Mexico from 1940 to 1946. Ávila Camacho was born in the city of Teziutlán, a small town in Puebla, to middle-class parents. He had several siblings, among them sister María Jovita Ávila Camacho and several brothers. Two of his brothers, Maximino Ávila Camacho and Rafael Ávila Camacho both served as governors of Puebla. Ávila did not receive a university degree, although he studied at the National Preparatory School.
- Mariano Arista
Mariano Arista was president of Mexico from 1851 to 1853, as well as a noted veteran of many of Mexico's nineteenth century wars. Originally an officer in the Spanish Army, Arista later joined the revolutionary army of Agustín de Iturbide. Later, Arista served under Antonio López de Santa Anna, Mexico's on-again off-again dictator during the attempt to put down the 1836 Texas Revolution.
- Adolfo López Mateos
Adolfo López Mateos was President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). López Mateos called the meeting that led to the creation of the World Boxing Council.
- Anastasio Bustamante
Anastasio Bustamante y Oseguera (Jiquilpan, Michoacán, July 27, 1780 - February 6, 1853 in San Miguel de Allende, Querétaro) was president of Mexico three times, from 1830 to 1832, from 1837 to 1839 and from 1839 to 1841. He was a Conservative. He first came to power by leading a coup against president Vicente Guerrero. Bustamante was deposed twice, and exiled to Europe each time.
- Ignacio Comonfort
Ignacio Comonfort was a Mexican politician and military officer. He was born in 1812 in Puebla de los Ángeles, in the state of Puebla, to French parents. He participated in the Mexican-American War. He was President of Mexico from September 15, 1855 to January 21, 1858. During his term as president, a radical liberal Benito Juárez served as both president of the Supreme Court and vice-president of Mexico.
- Guillermo Ortiz
Guillermo Ortiz Martínez is the current governor of the Bank of Mexico, Mexico's central bank. Ortiz Martínez is the son of Gen. Leopoldo Ortiz Sevilla and Graciela Martínez Ostos and received a B.A. in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and both a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in the United States. He joined the public service in 1971 and has been Mexico's ambassador to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Pascual Ortiz Rubio was a Mexican politician. He served as president from 1930 to 1932. He stood, in the election of 17 November 1929, as the candidate of the newly formed National Revolutionary Party, the forerunner of the PRI. His defeated opponent was José Vasconcelos, a former minister of education, national luminary, and candidate of the Anti-Reelection Party.
- Marta Sahagún
Marta Sahagún de Fox (born Marta María Sahagún Jiménez became the First Lady of Mexico on July 2, 2001 when she married President Vicente Fox Quesada. Sahagún was born in Zamora, Michoacán, on April 10, 1953, and for a few years worked as an English instructor at the Universidad Lasallista Benavente. Her first marriage was to Manuel Bribiesca Godoy in 1971 and they had three sons: Manuel, Jorge and Fernando.
- Miguel Alemán Valdés
Miguel Alemán Valdés served as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952.
- Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (December 30 1890 - December 3 1973) was President of Mexico from 1952 to 1958, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is perhaps best remembered for granting women the right to vote in presidential elections.
- Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada y Corral (Jalapa, Veracruz, April 24, 1823 - April 21, 1889 in New York City) was a jurist and Liberal president of Mexico.
- Emilio Portes Gil
Emilio Portes Gil (October 3 1890 - December 10 1978) was President of Mexico from 1928 to 1930. Portes Gil was born in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico. The outbreak of the Mexican Revolution found him studying law at Mexico City's Escuela Libre de Derecho. In late 1914 he allied himself with revolutionary Venustiano Carranza (who would assume the presidency of the country the following May) and, when he graduated in 1915, …
- Manuel González
Manuel del Refugio González Flores (El Moquete, Tamaulipas, June 18, 1833 - April 10, 1893 in Chapingo, State of Mexico) was a Mexican military officer, politician, and, from 1880 to 1884, president of Mexico.
- Juan Álvarez
Juan N. Álvarez Benítez was a general and interim president of Mexico for a few months in 1855. He fought in all the major wars of Mexico, from the War of Independence through the Pastry War, the Mexican-American War and the War of the Reform to the war against the French Intervention. A liberal reformer, a republican and a federalist, he was the leader of a revolution in support of Benito Juarez's Plan de Ayutla in 1854, …
- Nicolás Bravo
Nicolás Bravo Rueda was a Mexican politician and soldier. He distinguished himself in both offices during the 1846-1848 U.S. invasion of Mexico. During the War of Independence (1810-21), Bravo fought alongside José María Morelos in the campaign of the south. In 1811, he joined the forces of Hermenegildo Galeana and obtained the military command of the province of Veracruz. He was also involved in the defense of the Congress of Chilpancingo.
- Lorenzo de Zavala
Lorenzo de Zavala (October 3, 1788 - November 16, 1836) was a 19th-century Mexican politician. He served as finance minister under President Vicente Guerrero. A colonizer and statesman, he was also the interim vice president of the Republic of Texas. He served under President David G. Burnet from March to October 1836.
- Mariano Paredes
Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga (Mexico City, c. January 7, 1797 - September 7, 1849 in Mexico City) was an ultraconservative Mexican general and president. He took power in a coup d'etat in 1846. He was the president at the start of the Mexican-American War.
- Rosario Robles
Rosario Robles Berlanga is a left-wing Mexican politician who was appointed substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ("Mayor of Mexico City") when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run (unsuccessfully) for the presidency in 2000. Her term in office was highly controversial for an intensive media campaign in her government promoting her personal image, the high cost of which raised corruption concerns, …