Alejo Bay
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}}{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alejo Bay
| image = Alejo Bay with Alvaro Obregon and Plutarco Elias Calles.jpeg
| office = 4th Governor of Sonora
| predecessor = Adolfo de la Huerta
| successor = Fausto Topete
| termend = 1927
| termstart = 1923
| caption = Alejo Bay, Alvaro Obregon and Plutarco Elias Calles time after the Battle of Agua Prieta
| death_place = Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.
| nationality = Mexican
| birth_place = Álamos, Sonora, Mexico
| birth_date = 1891
| death_date = January 30, 1952
| parents = Thomas Bay
| party = Great Sonoran Civil Party
}}
Alejo Bay (1891 – January 30, 1952) was a Mexican political leader.
Early life
Bay was born in Álamos, Sonora. His father was Thomas Bay, an Irish-American and Confederate soldier from St. Louis, Missouri, that went to live in Alamos after The Union won the war.
Political career
Don Alejo Bay figured during a long time in political and federal issues in the Mexican state of Sonora. Alejo Bay was two times federal deputy, senator of the republic, local deputy and governor of Sonora during the Constitutional period from 1923 to 1927.{{cite book |last=Camp|first=Roderic Ai|author-link=Roderic Ai Camp|date=2011|title=Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009: Fourth Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=96xOHRWNMioC|page=91|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292726345}} He was also the Secretary of Treasury during 1939, under the command of general Macias Valenzuela. He was good friends with President Álvaro Obregón. During 1920, as a senator, he joined a group that was led by generals Jose Gonzalo Escobar and Fausto Topete, against president Plutarco Elias Calles for betraying his comrade Alvaro Obregon which caused him to march in the desert for five years.
Death
Sources
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Category:Mexican people of Irish descent
Category:Mexican emigrants to the United States
Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Category:Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Category:20th-century Mexican politicians
Category:Members of the Congress of Sonora
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