Jesús Murillo Karam


Jesús Murillo Karam is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as governor of the state of Hidalgo from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Public Security and then joined the campaign of Francisco Labastida for President of Mexico in the year 2000. He is of Lebanese descent.
In 2006 he was elected senator for his state and in February 2007 as secretary general of his party with Beatriz Paredes as president. He was president of the Commission of Interior in the Mexican Senate. In September 2012, he was elected member of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress as the President of the Chamber of Deputies. He later resigned this position to become Attorney General of Mexico.
He became Attorney General of Mexico on 4 December 2012 and resigned on February 27, 2015, to head another Secretary.