Heriberto Jara Corona

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name = Heriberto Jara Corona
caption =
order =
office = Governor of Tabasco
term_start = 1918
term_end = 1919
predecessor=Luis Hernández Hermosillo
successor = Carlos A. Vidal
order2 = 37th
office2 = Governor of Veracruz
term_start2= December 1, 1924
term_end2 = October 1927
predecessor2=Adalberto Tejada Olivera
successor2 = Abel S. Rodríguez
birth_date = Birth date|1879|7|10|
birth_place= Nogales, Veracruz
death_date = Death date and age|1968|4|17|1879|7|10
death_place= Mexico City, Federal District
spouse = Lucía Alcocer
profession = Military and Politician
party = PRI
footnotes =

General Heriberto Jara Corona (July 10, 1879 – April 17, 1968) was a Mexican revolutionary and politician who served as Governor of Veracruz.

Heriberto Jara was born in the town of Nogales, in the state of Veracruz, to Emilio Jara Andrade and María del Carmen Corona. He got enrolled in the Mexican Revolution while working at a factory in the municipality of Río Blanco in his native Veracruz.

The year Francisco I. Madero was elected President of Mexico he took over a seat in the Congress; then in 1916 he was elected again to serve in Congress and was one of the persons who drafted the 1917 Constitution. He served as Ambassador to Cuba and as Governor of Veracruz.He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1950 and, in 1959, he received the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. General Heriberto Jara International Airport in the port of Veracruz is named after him.