Misplaced Pages

Ernesto Ruffo Appel

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Mexican politician In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ruffo and the second or maternal family name is Appel.
Ernesto Ruffo Appel
10th Governor of Baja California
In office
1 November 1989 – 31 October 1995
Preceded byOscar Baylón Chacón
Succeeded byHector Terán Terán
Senator to the Congress of the Union
for Baja California
In office
1 September 2012 – 31 August 2018
Preceded byAlejandro González Alcocer
Succeeded byJaime Bonilla Valdez
Personal details
Born (1952-06-25) 25 June 1952 (age 72)
San Diego, California, U.S.
NationalityMexican
Political partyNational Action Party (PAN)
ProfessionBusinessperson

Ernesto Ruffo Appel (born 25 June 1952) is a Mexican politician, who served as the 10th Governor of Baja California from 1989 to 1995. A member of the National Action Party (PAN), Ruffo was the first state governor not affiliated with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929.

Born in San Diego, California, to Mexican parents, Ruffo attended elementary school in the coastal town of Ensenada in the state of Baja California. He attended college at the Monterrey campus of the ITESM graduating with a bachelor's degree in business. He became a member of PAN in 1982 and was elected municipal president of the municipality of Ensenada (the biggest municipality in Mexico with 51,952 km) in 1986. In 1989 he was elected governor of the state of Baja California in a major upset. In the year 2000, he supported the candidacy of Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico, he was the Coordinator of Migration Affairs for the Northern Border until 2006, when Mexican President Vicente Fox's government ended. He was a Senate supply in the LX legislature, and served one term as a Senator for Baja California in the LXII and LXIII legislatures from 2012 to 2018.

Preceded byOscar Baylón Chacón Governor of Baja California
1989–1995
Succeeded byHéctor Terán Terán
Preceded byDavid Ojeda Municipal president of Ensenada
1986–1989
Succeeded byEnrique Chapela (interim)

References

  1. "¿Quién es Ernesto Ruffo Appel? - Historia". culturacolectiva.com (in Spanish). 27 March 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.

External links

Senators of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
Institutional Revolutionary Party
National Action Party
Party of the Democratic Revolution
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico
Labor Party
New Alliance Party
Citizens' Movement
Senators of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress
Institutional Revolutionary Party
National Action Party
Party of the Democratic Revolution
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico
Labor Party
No party


Stub icon

This article about a National Action Party (Mexico) politician is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: