Jorge Alonso Treviño

Jorge Alonso Treviño Martínez (born 2 November 1935) served as governor of Nuevo León from 1 August 1985 to 1 August 1991. He is affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Jorge Alonso Treviño Martínez
Governor of Nuevo León
In office
1 August 1985  31 July 1991
Preceded byAlfonso Martínez Domínguez
Succeeded bySócrates Rizzo
Deputy of the Congress of the Union
for the 6th district of Nuevo León
In office
1 September 1982  13 February 1985
Preceded byLuis Marcelino Farías Martínez
Succeeded byGraciano Bortoni Urteága
Personal details
Born (1935-11-02) November 2, 1935
Monterrey, Nuevo León
Political partyInstitutional Revolutionary
SpouseMaría Cristina Larralde Lagüera
ProfessionLawyer and politician

Treviño received a bachelor's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a doctorate in administrative law from the University of Paris (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and completed some postgraduate studies at the University of Rome in Italy.

He taught several law courses at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Autonomous University of Nuevo León and University of Monterrey and held several posts at the federal secretariat of finance, where he worked with future president Miguel de la Madrid.

Treviño was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1982. He won the 1985 gubernatorial elections amid serious accusations of fraud, particularly against his conservative opponent, Fernando Canales. As governor, he built the first line of Metrorrey and coordinated the relief and reconstruction efforts after Hurricane Gilbert.


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