1929 in Mexico

Events from the year 1929 in Mexico

Federal government

 * President:
 * Emilio Portes Gil (starting December 1)
 * Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
 * Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
 * Communications Secretary (SCT):
 * Education Secretary (SEP):

Supreme Court

 * President of the Supreme Court:

Governors

 * Aguascalientes: Manuel Carpio Velázquez (PNR)
 * Campeche: Ramiro Bojórquez Castillo
 * Chiapas: : Raymundo E. Enríquez (1928–1929), Ernesto Constantino Herrera (1929), Alvaro Cancino (1929)
 * Chihuahua: 1928 - 1929: Marcelo Caraveo (1928-1929), Luis L. León (1929), Francisco R. Almada (1929), Luis L. León (1929), Francisco R. Almada (1929-1930)
 * Coahuila: Manuel Pérez Treviño (1925-1929), es:Nazario S. Ortiz Garza (PNR, 1929–1933)
 * Colima: Laureano Cervantes
 * Durango:
 * Guanajuato: Agustín Arroyo
 * Guerrero: Adrián Castrejón (PNR)
 * Hidalgo: Matías Rodríguez (1925–1929), Bartolomé Vargas Lugo (1929–1933)
 * Jalisco: Margarito Ramírez (1927–1929), José María Cuellar (1929–1930)
 * State of Mexico: Carlos Riva Palacio, (1925–1929), Filiberto Gómez (PNR, 1929–1933)
 * Michoacán: : Lázaro Cárdenas (1928–1929), Dámaso Cárdenas del Río (1929–1930)
 * Morelos: Ambrosio Puente (interim)
 * Nayarit: José de la Peña Ledón
 * Nuevo León: Plutarco Elías Calles (son) (PNR, 1929), National Revolutionary Party, PNR, Generoso Chapa Garza, (PNR 1929), Aarón Sáenz, (PNR, 1929–1931)
 * Oaxaca: Francisco López Cortés
 * Puebla: Donato Bravo Izquierdo (1927-1929), Leónides Andrew Almazán (PNR, 1929-1932)
 * Querétaro: Abraham Araujo (1927-1929), Ángel Vázquez Mellado (1929), Ramón Anaya (1929-1931)
 * San Luis Potosí: Saturnino Cedillo
 * Sinaloa: Macario Gaxiola (PNR)
 * Sonora: Fausto Topete (1927–1929), Francisco S. Elías (PNR, 1929–1931)
 * Tabasco: vacant
 * Tamaulipas: Juan Rincón (1928–1929), Baudelio Villanueva (PNR), Francisco Castellanos (PNR, 1929–1933)
 * Tlaxcala:
 * Veracruz: Adalberto Tejeda Olivares (Second Term)
 * Yucatán: Álvaro Torre Díaz
 * Zacatecas: Leobardo C. Ruiz

Events

 * March 3 – Escobar Rebellion: A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre, challenging the power of Plutarco Elías Calles, ends in failure.
 * June 21 – Cristero War: The Mexican government and Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres sign an agreement which allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics, bringing an end to the Cristero War.
 * November 17 – 1929 Mexican presidential election: Pascual Ortiz Rubio of the National Revolutionary Party is elected the new President. It is now widely thought that the election was rigged.

Ongoing

 * Mexican Repatriation (1929–1936)

Births

 * January 4 – Aldo Monti, actor (died 2016)
 * February 24 – Modesta Lavana, healer and activist for indigenous rights in Hueyapan (died 2010)
 * March 24 – Ángela Gurría, sculptor (died 2023)
 * April 5 – Vicente García Bernal, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Obregón (1988–2005). (died 2017)
 * April 28 – Evangelina Elizondo, actress (died 2017)
 * July 28 – José Solé, stage actor and director (Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes) (d. 2017)
 * August 20 – Carlos Ancira, film actor (died 1987)
 * October 17 — Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher (d. 2018).
 * November 18 — Francisco Savín, composer and director of Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (1963-1967); (d. 2018).
 * Date unknown — Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico (d. 2018)

Deaths

 * 10 January – Julio Antonio Mella, activist
 * March 20 – Miguel Alemán González, general (born 1884)

Date unknown

 * Benigno Montoya Muñoz, architect, sculptor and painter (b. 1865)