José Rosas Aispuro Torres | |
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Governor of Durango | |
Assumed office September 15, 2016 |
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Preceded by | Jorge Herrera Caldera |
Personal details | |
Born |
Tamazula, Durango, Mexico |
19 October 1961
Political party | PAN |
Occupation | Politician |
José Rosas Aispuro Torres (born 19 October 1961) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the PAN who is currently the governor-elect of Durango. From 2012 to 2015, he served as senator in the LXII and LXIII Legislatures representing Durango. He also was Municipal President of Durango, Durango from 2001 to 2004.
He was member of the Chamber of Deputies in the LVI and LX Legislatures, when he was affiliated with the PRI.
Aispuro Torres was born on 19 October 1961, in Tamazula, Durango. He became a member of the PRI in 1980 and began pursuing his bachelor's degree in law from the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa in 1981. After also obtaining his doctorate in law, he served in the Durango state government and the PRI before his first tour as a federal legislator. He was a deputy in the LVI Legislature, where he sat on the Human Rights, Youth Matters, and Legislative Investigations commissions. In 1995, Aispuro became the president of the PRI in Durango.
From 1998 to 2001, Aispuro was a local deputy in the LXI Legislature of the Congress of Durango. In 1999, he also became a professor of law, chairing the graduate studies division of the law school at the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango.
For Aispuro, much of the early 2000s was spent in municipal affairs. He was the municipal president of Victoria de Durango between 2001 and 2004; twice in that period, he was the president of the National Conference of Municipalities of Mexico, and he also presided over the National Federation of Municipalities for a year. During this time, he was considered for a PRI candidacy to the governorship of Durango and wrote two books: Digesto Constitucional Mexicano: las constituciones de Durango (2001), on the evolution of Durango's state constitutions, and El municipio en Iberoamérica (2003), on municipal matters. From 2005 to 2006, Aispuro served as the director general of the Durango state pension system.