Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
{{Short description|Mexican politician (1935–2020)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza
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| office = 35th President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
| term_start = 13 May 1994
| term_end = 3 December 1994
| predecessor = Fernando Ortiz Arana
| successor = María de los Ángeles Moreno
| office2 = Governor of the State of Mexico
| term_start2 = 11 September 1989
| term_end2 = 15 September 1993
| predecessor2 = Mario Ramón Beteta
| successor2 = Emilio Chuayffet
| birthname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1935|11|13}}
| birth_place = Toluca, State of Mexico, Mexico
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|04|14|1935|11|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Santa Fe, Mexico City, Mexico
| party = Institutional Revolutionary
}}
José Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza (13 November 1935 – 14 April 2020) was a Mexican politician who served as governor of the State of Mexico from 1989 to 1993.{{cite book |title=Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993 |last=Camp |first=Roderic Ai |year=1995 |publisher=University of Texas Press |edition=3rd |page=558 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HzliP-e4qnUC }}
Life
Pichardo Pagaza was born in Toluca, State of Mexico, in 1935.
In the 1979 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the State of Mexico's 27th district.{{cite web |title=Legislatura 51 |url=https://www.diputados.gob.mx/sedia/biblio/virtual/dip/leg27-60/Legislatura_51.pdf |publisher=Cámara de Diputados |access-date=13 January 2025}}
He later served in the Cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid as general comptroller (1987–1988) and in the cabinet of President Ernesto Zedillo as Secretary of Energy. He was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and served as its president in 1994. He later served as Ambassador to Spain and the Netherlands.
He was the father of politician José Ignacio Pichardo Lechuga and of Alfonso Pichardo, lead singer of Mexican electronica group Moenia. And he is a nephew of Juan Josafat Pichardo Cruz, who was the first Rector or the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México UAEM.
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Category:Governors of the State of Mexico
Category:Presidents of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
Category:Secretaries of energy of Mexico
Category:Ambassadors of Mexico to the Netherlands
Category:Deputies of the XLVII Legislature of Mexico
Category:Deputies of the LI Legislature of Mexico
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