Governor of Baja California
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According to the Political Constitution of the Free State and Sovereign of Baja California, the exercise of the Power Executive of this Mexican state, is placed in a single individual, that Constitutional Governor of the Free State is called and Sovereign of Baja California and that is chosen for a period of 6 years reeligibles by no motive. The governmental period begins November 1 of the year of the election and finishes October 31 after to have elapsed six years.
The present state of Baja California had its origin in 1888, when the then President Porfirio Díaz, decreed the division of the Federal Territory of Baja California in two districts, the north and the south, the capital and most of the population of the old territory had been in the south, more nearby of country's maritime way and the north, isolated by the sea and by the desert Even less development, toward end of the 19th century this began to change and was because of it that necessary the division in two districts was done, the initial capital of the North District was the port of Ensenada, and each one of the two districts I remain governed by a Political Leader appointed by the territory, although officially they continued being territorial a single unit. The constitution of 1917 maintained the existence of the Federal Territory divided into two districts, but changed the denomination of the Chief Executive to Governors, mantenidose this division until 1931 in which finally from Districts in two independent Federal Territories among itself were erected, and finally in 1952 the north territory became the State Free and Sovereign of Baja California.
The individuals that have occupied the Government of the State of Baja California, in its different denominations, have been the following:
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[edit] Chief Executive of the North District of the Federal Territory of Baja California
- (1888 - 1894): Luis E. Torres
- (1894 - 1902): Agustín Sangines
- (1902 - 1903): Abraham Arroniz
- (1903 - 1911): Celso Vega
- (1911): Miguel Mayol
- (1911 - 1912): Manuel Gordillo Escudero
- (1912 - 1913): Carlos R. Ptanick
- (1913): José Dolores Espinoza
- (1913): Miguel V. Gómez
- (1913 - 1914): Francisco Vázquez
- (1914 - 1915): David Zárate
- (1915 - 1917): Esteban Cantú Jiménez
[edit] Governors of the North District of the Federal Territory of Baja California
- (1917 - 1920): Esteban Cantú Jiménez
- (1920): Luis M. Salazar
- (1920 - 1921): Manuel Balarezo
- (1921): Epigmenio Ibarra
- (1921 - 1922): Lucas B. Rodríguez
- (1922 - 1923): José Inocente Lugo
- (1923 - 1930): Abelardo L. Rodríguez
- (1930): José María Tapia
- (1930): Arturo M. Bernal
- (1930 - 1931): Carlos Trejo Lerdo de Tejada
[edit] Governors of the Federal Territory of Baja California
- (1931): Carlos Trejo Lerdo de Tejada
- (1931 - 1932): Agustín Olachea
- (1932): Arturo M. Elías
- (1932 - 1935): Agustín Olachea
- (1935 - 1936): Gildardo Magaña
- (1936): Gabriel Gavira
- (1936 - 1937): Rafael Navarro Cortina
- (1937 - 1944): Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
- (1944 - 1946): Juan Felipe Rico Islas
- (1946 - 1947): Alberto B. Alderete
- (1947 - 1952): Alfonso García González
[edit] Governors of the Free State and Sovereign of Baja California
- (1952 - 1953): Alfonso García González
- (1953 - 1959): Braulio Maldonado Sández
- (1959 - 1964): Eligio Esquivel Méndez
- (1964 - 1965): Gustavo Aubanel Vallejo
- (1965 - 1971): Raúl Sánchez Díaz Martell
- (1971 - 1977): Milton Castellanos Everardo
- (1977 - 1983): Roberto de la Madrid Romandía
- (1983 - 1988): Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera
- (1988 - 1989): Oscar Baylón Chacón
- (1989 - 1995): Ernesto Ruffo Appel
- (1995 - 1998): Héctor Terán Terán
- (1998 - 2001): Alejandro González Alcocer
- (2001 - 2007): Eugenio Elorduy Walther
