Ernesto Ruffo Appel
Ernesto Ruffo Appel is a United States-born Mexico politician famous for being the first state governor not affiliated to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional since 1929.
His parents and grandparents are Mexico-born. Ruffo attended elementary school in the coastal town of Ensenada in the state of Baja California. He attended college at the Monterrey campus of the ITESM graduating with a bachelor's degree in business. He became a member of the National Action Party in 1982 and was elected municipal president of the municipality of Ensenada in 1986. :es:Elecciones estatales de Baja California de 1989|In 1989 he was elected governor of the state of Baja California in a major upset. In the year 2000, he supported the candidacy of Vicente Fox, former President of Mexico, he was the Coordinator of Migration Affairs for the Northern Border until 2006, when Mexican President Vicente Fox's government ended. He is currently a Senate supply in the LX legislature.
