Incumbents

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.^[1]
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.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Ongoing

Mexican Repatriation (1929–1936)^[5]

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)^[6]

Date unknown

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

References

^ Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter (2010). Wings over the Mexican Border: Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend. University of Texas. ISBN 0292787812.
^ "Las elecciones de 1929". Reconoce MX. Archived from the original on July 3, 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ Gil Olmos, José. "Un siglo de fraudes". Proceso. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ Ramales Osorio, M.C. "MÉXICO: FRAUDES ELECTORALES, AUTORITARISMO Y REPRESIÓN Del Estado benefactor al Estado neoliberal". Retrieved 19 August 2018.
^ Hoffman, Abraham (1974-01-01). Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939. VNR AG. ISBN 9780816503667.
^ "Miguel Alemán González (1884-1929)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved March 9, 2017.

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