Global political history

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Mexico

Heads of State of Mexico

United Mexican States

President of the United Mexican States
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1833

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1833

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1833

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1834 – 1835

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*interim)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1839

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*provisional)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1841 – 1842

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*provisional)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1843

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*provisional)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1844

José Joaquín Antonio Florencio de Herrera y Ricardos

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1792; d. February 10 1854.

Liberal Party

1844

José Joaquín Antonio Florencio de Herrera y Ricardos

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1792; d. February 10 1854.

Liberal Party

1844 – 1845

José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga

Date of birth/date of death: b. January 7 1797; d. September 7 1849.

Conservative Party

1845 – 1846

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*interim)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1847

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (*interim)

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1847

José Joaquín Antonio Florencio de Herrera y Ricardos

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 23 1792; d. February 10 1854.

Liberal Party

1848 – 1851

José Mariano Martín Buenaventura Ignacio Nepomuceno García de Arista Nuez

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 26 1802; d. August 7 1855.

Liberal Party

1851 – 1853

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 21 1794; d. June 21 1876.

Conservative Party

1853 – 1855

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1830; d. July 2 1915.

Liberal Party

1876

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1830; d. July 2 1915.

Liberal Party

1877 – 1880

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 15 1830; d. July 2 1915.

Liberal Party

1884 – 1911

Francisco Ignacio Madero González

Date of birth/date of death: b. October 30 1873; d. February 22 1913.

Progressive Constitutionalist Party

1911 – 1913

José Victoriano Huerta Márquez

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 23 1850; d. January 13 1916.

Independent

1913 – 1914

Head of the Executive Power and First Chief of the Constitutional Army
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1859; d. May 21 1920.

Liberal Constitutionalist Party

1914 – 1917

President of the United Mexican States
José Venustiano Carranza de la Garza

Date of birth/date of death: b. December 29 1859; d. May 21 1920.

Liberal Constitutionalist Party

1917 – 1920

Álvaro Obregón Salido

Date of birth/date of death: b. February 19 1880; d. July 17 1928.

Mexican Laborist Party

1920 – 1924

Plutarco Elías Calles

Date of birth/date of death: b. September 25 1877; d. October 19 1945.

Mexican Laborist Party

1924 – 1928

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños

Date of birth/date of death: b. March 12 1911; d. July 15 1979.

Institutional Revolutionary Party

1964 – 1970

Carlos Salinas de Gotari

Date of birth/date of death: b. April 3 1948.

Institutional Revolutionary Party

1988 – 1994

Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa

Date of birth/date of death: b. August 18 1962.

National Action Party

2006 – 2012

Enrique Peña Nieto

Date of birth/date of death: b. July 20 1966.

Institutional Revolutionary Party

2012 – 2018

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Date of birth/date of death: b. November 13 1953.

National Regeneration Movement

2018 – 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo

Date of birth/date of death: b. June 24 1962.

Presidential elections contested: 2024 Mexican presidential election as National Regeneration Movement (Morena) presidential nominee (won).

Other prominent offices: Head of Government of Mexico City (2018 – 2023).

National Regeneration Movement

2024 – present