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The Mexican Secretary of the Interior (Spanish: Secretario de Gobernación) is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress, their publication and certain issues of national security. The country's main intelligence agency, CISEN, depends directly from this branch. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet and the most important cabinet secretary.
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In 1821, with the integration of the Junta Provisional Gubernativa (Provisional Government Junta), and an urge to organize the country, the regulation that would determine the functions of the so-called Secretariat of Internal and External Relations was published. This newly created organism had the functions of the General Government and its first holder was José Manuel de Herrera (1821-1823).
With the passage of time, it was necessary to specify the nature of actions of the existing institutions and in 1836 the Ministry of the Interior was established, in 1841 it was changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Government, which changed in 1843 to the Ministry of the Interior and Police. Finally in 1853, the functions were separated and the Secretariat of the Interior was created.
The Secretariat of the Interior as a dependency of the Executive Branch, concerned with internal policy and national governability, has its most remote origin in article 222 of the Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, promulgated on 19 March 1812, which established among the secretaries of State, those of Government of the Kingdom for the Peninsula and adjacent Islands and Government of the Kingdom for the Overseas On 22 October 1814, the Constitutional Declaration for the Liberty of the Mexican Americas, known as the Constitution of Apatzingán, anticipated in its article 134, the establishment of a republican government, with an Executive Branch known as the Supreme Government which would have a Secretariat of Government among others.
This position was for long regarded as the antechamber to the office of president, because several secretaries of the interior were chosen as presidential candidates for the following term by the incumbent president, including:
Francisco Labastida Ochoa, Secretary of the Interior during the latter part of Ernesto Zedillo's administration, was regarded as the president's candidate during the Institutional Revolutionary Party's primaries (the first ones the party had ever held) and during his unsuccessful campaign against former President Vicente Fox.
Fox's Secretary of the Interior, Santiago Creel, participated in the National Action Party's primaries but was defeated by current President Felipe Calderón.
| Picture | Name | Term of Office | President(s) served under | |
| Alejandro Poiré Romero | 17 November 2011 | incumbent | Felipe Calderón | |
| Francisco Blake Mora | 14 July 2010 | 11 November 2011 | ||
| Fernando Gómez-Mont | 10 November 2008 | 14 July 2010 | ||
| Juan Camilo Mouriño | 15 January 2008 | 4 November 2008 | ||
| Francisco Ramírez Acuña | 1 December 2006 | 15 January 2008 | ||
| Carlos Abascal | 1 June 2005 | 30 November 2006 | Vicente Fox | |
| Santiago Creel | 1 December 2000 | 1 June 2005 | ||
| Diódoro Carrasco | 1999 | 30 November 2000 | Ernesto Zedillo | |
| Francisco Labastida | 1998 | 1999 | ||
| Emilio Chuayffet | 1995 | 1998 | ||
| Esteban Moctezuma | 1 December 1994 | 1995 | ||
| Jorge Carpizo McGregor | 1994 | 30 November 1994 | Carlos Salinas | |
| Patrocinio González Garrido | 1993 | 1994 | ||
| Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios | 1 December 1988 | 1993 | ||
| Manuel Bartlett Díaz | 1 December 1982 | 30 November 1988 | Miguel de la Madrid | |
| Enrique Olivares Santana | 1978 | 30 November 1982 | José López Portillo | |
| Jesús Reyes Heroles | 1 December 1976 | 1978 | ||
| Mario Moya Palencia | 1 December 1970 1969 |
30 November 1976 1970 |
Luis Echeverría Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
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| Luis Echeverría | 1 December 1964 1963 |
1969 30 November 1964 |
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Adolfo López Mateos |
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| Gustavo Díaz Ordaz | 1 December 1958 | 1963 | Adolfo López Mateos | |
| Angel Carvajal | 1 December 1952 | 30 November 1958 | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines | |
| Ernesto P. Uruchurtu | 1951 | 1952 | Miguel Alemán | |
| Adolfo Ruiz Cortines | 1948 | 1951 | ||
| Ernesto P. Uruchurtu | 1948 | 1948 | ||
| Héctor Pérez Martínez | 1946 | 1948 | ||
| Primo Villa Michel | 1945 | 1946 | Manuel Ávila Camacho | |
| Miguel Alemán Valdés | 1940 | 1945 | ||
| Ignacio García Téllez | 1938 | 1940 | Lázaro Cárdenas | |
| Silvestre Guerrero | 1935 | 1938 | ||
| Silvano Barba González | 1935 | 1935 | ||
| Juan de Dios Bojórquez | 1934 | 1935 | ||
| Juan D. Cabral | 1934 | 1934 | Abelardo L. Rodríguez | |
| Narciso Bassols | 1934 | 1934 | ||
| Eduardo Vasconcelos | 1932 | 1934 | ||
| Juan José Ríos | 1932 | 1932 | Pascual Ortiz Rubio | |
| Manuel C. Téllez | 1931 | 1932 | ||
| Lázaro Cárdenas del Río | 1931 | 1932 | ||
| Octavio Mendoza González | 1931 | 1931 | ||
| Carlos Riva Palacio | 1930 | 1931 | ||
| Emilio Portes Gil | 1930 | 1930 | ||
| Felipe Canales | 1 December 1928 | 4 February 1930 | Emilio Portes Gil | |
| Emilio Portes Gil | 1928 | 1928 | Plutarco Elías Calles | |
| Gonzalo Vázquez Vela | 1928 | 1928 | Plutarco Elías Calles | |
| Adalberto Tejeda | 1925 | 1928 | Plutarco Elías Calles | |
| Gilberto Valenzuela | 1925 | 1925 | Plutarco Elías Calles | |
| Romeo Ortega | 1924 1924 |
1925 1924 |
Plutarco Elías Calles Alvaro Obregón |
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| Enrique Colunga | 1923 | 1924 | Alvaro Obregón | |
| Gilberto Valenzuela | 1923 | 1923 | Alvaro Obregón | |
| Plutarco Elías Calles | 1920 | 1923 | Alvaro Obregón | |
| José Inocencio Lugo | 1920 | 1920 | Adolfo de la Huerta | |
| Gilberto Valenzuela | 1920 | 1920 | Adolfo de la Huerta | |
| Manuel Aguirre Berlanga | 1917 | 1920 | Venustiano Carranza | |
| Rafael Zubirán Capmany | 1914 | 1914 | ||
| Ignacio Alcocer | 1913 | 1914 | ||