Héctor Ortiz Ortiz

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Héctor Israel Ortiz Ortiz (b. July 28, 1950 in Oaxaca) is a Mexican politician who currently serves as Governor of Tlaxcala.

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Ortiz Ortiz holds a bachelor's degree in law. He has been professor of law at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (UAT) since 1974. Ortiz Ortiz served as Rector of the UAT from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1999 to 2000. From 1990 to 1991 he served as Secretary of Education of the State of Tlaxcala. He served in the lower house of the Mexican Congress during the LV (1991 to 1994) and the LVIII Legislatures. In 2002 he was elected Mayor of Tlaxcala.

Ortiz Ortiz joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1967 and was an active member until 2004 when he resigned to the PRI after losing the party's internal bid for the governorship of Tlaxcala. He then accepted the invitation from the National Action Party (PAN) to run for the governorship as the PAN candidate; he won the elections held on November 14, 2004 and took office on January 14, 2005.


Current Mexican State Governors

Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez
Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas
Coahuila: Humberto Moreira Valdés
Colima: Silverio Cavazos
Distrito Federal: Marcelo Ebrard
Durango: Ismael Hernández
Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez

Guerrero: Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca
Hidalgo: Miguel Osorio Chong
Jalisco: Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez
México: Enrique Peña Nieto
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel
Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame Castillo
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: Natividad González Parás
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón

Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos
Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla
Sonora: Eduardo Bours
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz
Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores
Tlaxcala: Héctor Ortiz Ortiz
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán
Yucatán: Patricio Patrón Laviada
Zacatecas: Amalia García

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Preceded by
Alfonso Sánchez Anaya
Governor of Tlaxcala
2005 – present
Incumbent
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