1954 in Mexico
# 1954 in Mexico

Events in the year 1954 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Ángel Carvajal Bernal
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Luis Padilla Nervo
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Carlos Lazo
* Education Secretary (SEP): Jose Angel Ceniceros
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Matías Ramos
* Secretary of Navy: Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Adolfo López Mateos

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: José María Ortiz Tirado

### Governors

Every governor was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

* Aguascalientes: Benito Palomino Dena
* Baja California: Braulio Maldonado Sandez
* Campeche: Manuel López Hernández
* Chiapas: Efraín Aranda Osorio
* Chihuahua: Oscar Soto Maynez
* Coahuila: Ramón Cepeda López
* Colima: Jesús González Lugo
* Durango: Enrique Torres Sánchez
* Guanajuato: José Aguilar y Maya
* Guerrero: Alejandro Gómez Maganda/Darío L. Arrieta Mateos
* Hidalgo: Quintín Rueda Villagrán
* Jalisco: Agustín Yáñez
* State of Mexico: Salvador Sánchez Colín
* Michoacán: Dámaso Cárdenas del Río
* Morelos: Rodolfo López de Nava
* Nayarit: José Limón Guzmán
* Nuevo León: José S. Vivanco
* Oaxaca: Manuel Cabrera Carrasqueado/Manuel I. Manjardín/José Pacheco Iturribarría
* Puebla: Rafael Ávila Camacho
* Querétaro: Octavio Mondragón Guerra/Juan C. Gorraéz
* San Luis Potosí: Ismael Salas Penieres/Manuel Álvarez
* Sinaloa: Rigoberto Aguilar Pico
* Sonora: Ignacio Soto/Álvaro Obregón Tapia
* Tabasco: Manuel Bartlett Bautista/Miguel Orrico de los Llanos
* Tamaulipas: Horacio Terán
* Tlaxcala: Felipe Mazarraza
* Veracruz: Marco Antonio Muñoz Turnbull
* Yucatán: Víctor Mena Palomo
* Zacatecas: José Minero Roque
* Regent of the Federal District: Ernesto P. Uruchurtu

## Events

* The Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque is established in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
* The Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores is founded.
* June 24/26: Hurricane Alice (June 1954)
* December 8: The Autonomous University of Chihuahua is founded.

## Awards

Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Rosaura Zapata and Erasmo Castellanos Quinto

## Film

* List of Mexican films of 1954.

## Sport

* 1953–54 Mexican Primera División season.
* 1954 Carrera Panamericana.
* The 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games are held in Mexico City.
* The United States defeat Mexico in the Americas Zone final of the Davis Cup.
* The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo win the Mexican League.
* February 7: Club Celaya is founded.
* August 28: Club Universidad Nacional is founded.

## Births

* January 26
   * Sebastián Ligarde, Mexican-American actor
   * Jorge Hernández Andrés, businessman and bullfighter (d. 2018).
* February 20 — Jorge Torres López, politician (PRI) and Governor of Coahuila in 2011
* May 13 — Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez, politician (PRD) and Mayor of Mexico City 2005-2006
* June 24 – Juan González Gómez ("Juan Cotz"), painter from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (d. 2017).
* June 28 — Mario Plutarco Marín Torres, Governor of Puebla 2005-2011
* July 11 — Alejandro Camacho, actor and producer
* July 26 — Leonardo Daniel, actor and director
* September 2 — Humberto Zurita, actor, director, and producer.
* October 17 – Herón Escobar, politician (PT), deputy (2009-2012); (d. October 24, 2016).
* November 3 – Carlos Girón, silver medal-winning diver in the 1980 Olympics. (d. January 13, 2020)
* Date unknown

## Deaths

* March 30: Agustín Aragón León politician and philosopher (b. 1870)
