Governor of Nuevo León

The Mexican state of Nuevo León has been governed by more than a hundred individuals in its history, who have had various titles and degrees of responsibility depending on the prevailing political regime of the time.

Under the current regime, executive power rests in a governor, who is directly elected by the citizens, using a secret ballot, to a six-year term with no possibility of reelection. The position is open only to a Mexican citizen by birth, at least 30 years old with at least five years residency in Nuevo León.

Nuevo Reino de León

# Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva, 1580–1588
# Diego de Montemayor, 1588–1610
# Diego de Montemayor (el mozo), 1610–1611
# Martín de Zavala, 1612–1664
# León de Alza, 1665–1667
# Nicolás de Azcárraga, 1667–1676
# Domingo de Prudena, 1676–1681
# Blas de la Garza y Falcón, 1681
# Domingo de Videgaray y Zarza, 1681
# Antonio de Echevérez y Subiza, 1684–1687
# Pedro Fernández de la Ventosa, 1688–1693
# Juan Pérez de Merino, 1693–1698
# Juan Francisco de Vergara y Mendoza 1698–1703
# Francisco Báez Treviño, 1703–1705
# Gregorio de Salinas Verona, 1705–1707
# Cipriano García de Pruneda, 1707–1708
# Luis García de Pruneda 1708–1710
# Francisco Mier y Torre, 1710–1714
# Francisco Báez Treviño 1714–1718
# Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón 1718
# Francisco de Barbadillo y Victoria, 1719–1723
# Juan José de Arriaga y Brambila, 1723–1725
# Pedro de Sarabia Cortés, 1725–1729
# Bernardino de Meneses Monroy y Mendoza, 1730–1731
# Juan Antonio Fernández de Jáuregui y Urrutia, 1731–1740
# Pedro del Barrio Junco y Expriella, 1740–1746
# Vicente Bueno de Borbolla, 1746–1751
# Pedro del Barrio Junco y Expriella, 1752–1757
# Juan Manuel Muñoz de Villavicencio, 1757–1762
# Carlos de Velasco, 1762–1764
# Ignacio Ussel y Guimbarda, 1764–1772
# Francisco de Echegaray, 1772–1773
# Melchor Vidal de Lorca y Villena, 1773
# Vicente González de Santianes, 1773–1788
# Manuel Bahamonde y Villamil, 1788–1795
# Simón de Herrera y Leyva, 1795–1810

Mexican War of Independence

# Manuel de Santa María, 1810–1811
# José Santiago Villarreal, 1811
# Blas José Gómez de Castro, 1811–1813
# Ramón Díaz Bustamante, 1813
# José Antonio Mujica, 1814
# Froilán de Mier y Noguera, 1815
# Francisco Bruno Barreda, 1816 and 1818–1821
# Bernardo Villamil, 1817–1818

First Mexican Republic

# Juan de Echandía 1822
# Francisco de Mier y Noriega, 1823
# José Antonio Rodríguez, 1824
# José María Parás, 1825–1827 and 1848–1850.
# Manuel Gómez Castro, 1827–1829 and 1833.
# Joaquín García, 1829–1833 and 1837–1839.
# Manuel María de Llano, 1833–1834 and 1839–1845.
# Juan Nepomuceno de la Garza y Evía, 1835–1837 and 1845–1846.
# José María Ortega, 1841
# Pedro Ampudia, 1846 and 1853–1854
# Pedro José García, 1850–1851

eparatist attempts

# Agapito García Dávila, 1851–1853
# Mariano Morret, 1854
# Jerónimo Cardona, 1854–1855
# Santiago Vidaurri, 1855–1859 and 1860–1864.
# José Silvestre Aramberri, 1859

French intervention

# Jesús María Benítez y Pinillos, 1864
# Mariano Escobedo, 1865
# Simón de la Garza Melo, 1865
# Mariano Escobedo, 1866
# Manuel Z. Gómez, 1866–1867

econd Mexican Republic

* Jerónimo Treviño, 1867–1869
* Simón de la Garza Melo, 1869
* Lázaro Garza Ayala, 1869
* José Eleuterio González, 1870
* Jerónimo Treviño; 1871, 1877 and 1913
* Genaro Garza García, 1871
* Lázaro Garza Ayala, 1872
* Narciso Dávila, 1872
* José Eleuterio González, 1872–1873
* Ramón Treviño, 1873
* José Eleuterio González, 1874
* Ramón Treviño, 1874
* Francisco González Doria, 1874
* Carlos Fuero, 1875–1876
* Narciso Dávila, 1876
* Canuto García, 1876
* Genaro Garza García 1876

Under Porfirio Díaz

* Genaro Garza García, 1877–1879
* Viviano L. Villareal, 1879–1881
* Genaro Garza García, 1881–1883
* Canuto García, 1883–1885
* Genaro Garza García, 1885
* Bernardo Reyes; 1885–1887, 1889–1900, and 1903–1909
* Lázaro Garza Ayala, 1887–1889
* Pedro Benítez Leal, 1900–1902
* José María Mier, 1909–1910

Mexican Revolution

# Leobardo Chapa, 1910–1911
# Viviano L. Villarreal, 1911–1913
# Salomé Botello, 1913–1914
# Antonio de la Paz Guerra, 1914
# Antonio I Villarreal, 1914–1915
# Rafael Cepeda de la Fuente, 1915
# Felipe Ángeles, 1915
# Raúl Madero, 1915
# Ildefonso V. Vázquez, 1915
# Pablo A. de la Garza, 1915 and 1916
# Diódoro dela Garza, 1916
# Alfredo Recaut, 1917

Constitution

# Nicéforo Zambrano, 1917–1919
# José E. Santos, 1919–1920
# Humberto Barros, 1920
# Felix G. Lozano, 1920
# Porfirio G. González, 1920 and 1923–1925
# Juan M. García, 1921
# Leocadio M. González, 1922
# Ramiro Támez, 1922 and 1923
# Pedro Guajardo, 1923
# Alfredo Pérez, 1923
# Anastacio Treviño Martínez, 1923
# José Juan Vallejo, 1923
# Jerónimo Siller, 1925–1927
# José Benítez, 1928

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

# Plutarco Elías Calles (son), 1929
# Generoso Chapa Garza, 1929
# Aarón Sáenz, 1927 and 1929–1931
# Francisco A. Cárdenas, 1931–1933
# Pablo Quiroga, 1933–1935
# Ángel Santos Cervantes, 1935
# Gregorio Morales Sánchez, 1935–1936
# Anacleto Guerrero Guajardo, 1936–1939
# Bonifacio Salinas Leal, 1939–1943
# Arturo B. de la Garza, 1943–1949
# Ignacio Morones Prieto, 1949–1952
# José S. Vivanco, 1952–1955
# Raúl Rangel Frías, 1955–1961
# Eduardo Livas Villarreal, 1961–1967
# Eduardo Elizondo, 1967–1971
# Luis M. Farías, 1971–1973
# Pedro Zorrilla Martínez, 1973–1979
# Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, 1979–1985
# Jorge Treviño Martínez, 1985–1991
# Sócrates Rizzo, 1991–1995
# Benjamín Clariond, 1995–1997

Multi-party

# Fernando Canales Clariond, PAN, 1997–2003
# Fernando Elizondo Barragán, PAN, 2003 (interim)
# José Natividad González Parás, PRI, 2003–2009

ources

*This article originated as a translation of the corresponding article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia. That, in turn, gives the following sources:
** [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/enciclo/nuevoleon/ La Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México: Nuevo León]
** [http://lectura.ilce.edu.mx:3000/biblioteca/sites/estados/libros/nleon/htm/nuevoleon.htm Israel Cavazos: Breve historia de Nuevo León]