Tomás Yarrington
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Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba (b. March 7, 1957 in Matamoros) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Revolutionary Institutional Party. He is a former governor of Tamaulipas.
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 the University of Southern California.
In 1991 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and from 1993 until 1995 he served as mayor of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Later on he headed the local branch of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, joined the cabinet of Manuel 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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- (Spanish) Official site
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