Salvador Sánchez Colín
Salvador Sánchez Colín | |
|---|---|
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| Governor of the State of Mexico | |
| In office 16 September 1951 – 15 September 1957 | |
| Preceded by | Alfredo del Mazo Vélez |
| Succeeded by | Gustavo Baz Prada |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1912 Atlacomulco, Edomex, Mexico |
| Died | 14 May 2002 (aged 90) Federal District, Mexico |
| Party | PRI |
| Alma mater | ENA |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Agricultural engineer |
Salvador Sánchez Colín[a] (14 May 1912 – 14 May 2002) was a Mexican politician. A member of the Atlacomulco Group within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he served as governor of the State of Mexico from 1951 to 1957.
Political career
[edit]Sánchez Colín was born into a peasant family in Atlacomulco de Fabela, State of Mexico, in 1912. He studied primary school in Atlacomulco, secondary school in Mexico City, and took a degree in agricultural engineering from the National School of Agriculture (ENA) in 1939. He later taught botany and mathematics at the Industrial Institute of Tijuana in Baja California.[1]
In the 1946 general election, he was elected as Adolfo López Mateos's alternate as senator for the State of Mexico[2] and, in 1950, he was elected to represent Texcoco in the Congress of the State of Mexico.[1]
In 1951, he was elected to a six-year term as governor of the State of Mexico; both Carlos Hank González and Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine were members of his government team.[2] During his governorship, he established Mexico's first agricultural extension programme.[3] While his administration focused largely on the state's agricultural development, it also worked to promote industrial development in Toluca, Naucalpan and Tlalnepantla and, in 1956, it created the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) from the pre-existing Scientific and Literary Institute of Toluca.[4]
At the end of his gubernatorial team, he is thought to have aspired to be the PRI's candidate in the 1958 presidential election, but the nomination went to López Mateos.[5]
Sánchez Colín was a member of the Atlacomulco Group, a faction within the PRI that has controlled much of the State of Mexico's political destiny since the party's consolidation.[5][6]
Salvador Sánchez Colín died in Mexico City on 14 May 2002, his 90th birthday, and, pursuant to an executive decree issued by Governor Arturo Montiel Rojas, was interred in the Rotonda de Personajes Ilustres del Estado de México in Toluca.[4][7]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ In this Mexican name, the surname is Sánchez and the second or maternal family name is Colín.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Camp, Roderic Ai (2011). Mexican Political Biographies, 1935–2009 (4th ed.). University of Texas Press. p. 877. ISBN 9780292726345.
- 1 2 Morales Gómez, Claudia Abigail (2006). "Las élites gobernantes priístas del Estado de México: su conformación y redes 1942–2005" [The ruling PRI elites of the State of Mexico: creation and networks, 1942–2005] (PDF). Convergencia. 13 (40). Toluca: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. ISSN 2448-5799.
- ↑ Gutiérrez Núñez, Netzahualcóyotl Luis (2023). "Salvador Sánchez Colín y el servicio de extensión del Estado de México: Desarrollo agrícola y revolución verde (1952-1957)" [Salvador Sánchez Colín and the Extension Service of the State of Mexico: Agricultural Development and Green Revolution (1952-1957)]. Revista de Historia (87). Heredia: Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. ISSN 2215-4744.
- 1 2 "Decreto del Ejecutivo del Estado" [Executive Decree] (PDF). Gaceta del Gobierno. 173 (91). Government of the State of Mexico. Toluca. 14 May 2002.
- 1 2 Ochoa, Ximena (29 May 2023). "Quiénes son los integrantes del Grupo Atlacomulco, la histórica facción del PRI en Edomex" [Who are the members of the Atlacomulco Group, the historic PRI faction in the State of Mexico?]. Infobae.
- ↑ Molina, Gilberto (29 May 2023). "Así se creó Grupo Atlacomulco, considerado un 'clan mafioso'" [How the Atlacomulco Group, deemed a 'mafia clan', was created]. Once Noticias.
- ↑ Rodríguez, Alma (1 November 2021). "Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres, descanso de personajes que marcaron historia" [The Rotunda of Illustrious Men, the resting place of those who made history]. Capital Estado de México.