José Murat Casab

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Murat and the second or maternal family name is Casab.
Nelson José Murat Casab
Governor of Oaxaca
In office
December 1, 1998  November 30, 2004
Preceded by Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
Succeeded by Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
Personal details
Born Nelson José Murat Casab
(1947-10-18) October 18, 1947
Ixtepec, Oaxaca
Political party Institutional Revolutionary Party
Profession Lawyer

Nelson José Murat Casab (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse muˈɾat]; born October 18, 1947) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Oaxaca and is a Diputado Federal elected from the ranks of Alliance for Mexico of Institutional Revolutionary Party-Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He is of Iraqi-Assyrian descent, born to an Assyrian family from the village of Tel Keppe.[1]

Murat was a controversial governor but a competent political speaker. After he assumed office on December 1, 1998 a series of scandals tarnished the governor's office.

Preceded by
Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano
Governor of Oaxaca
1998 - 2004
Succeeded by
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz

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