- Tomás Yarrington
Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba (b.
March 7 ,1957 in Matamoros) is aMexican politician affiliated to theRevolutionary Institutional Party . He is a former governor ofTamaulipas .Yarrington graduated with bachelor's degrees in economics and law from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies and the
Autonomous University of Nuevo León respectively. He also received a master's degree in public administration from theUniversity of Southern California .In
1991 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and from1993 until1995 he served as mayor ofMatamoros, Tamaulipas . Later on he headed the local branch of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, joined the cabinet ofManuel Cavazos Lerma as state secretary of finance and served as governor of Tamaulipas (1999 –2004 ).After leaving the governorship, Yarrington entered the presidential primaries by mid-
2005 .He is married to Maria Antonieta Morales Loo and has two sons: María Antonieta and Tomás.
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