Álvaro Obregón Tapia

Who was Álvaro Obregón Tapia?

Álvaro Obregón Tapia was a Mexican political figure who served as governor of the northwestern border state of Sonora from 1955 to 1961.

During his term in office, Obregón stressed the importance of education to the future growth of Sonora and the country as a whole and demonstrated his commitment by overseeing the construction of 139, primarily rural, places of learning, and instituting a program of night classes for adults. He also greatly expanded the state's highway system. His parents, Álvaro Obregón Salido and María Tapia Monteverde, were prominent in the nation's history, with his father remembered as one of Mexico's most renowned personalities of the Revolution, who led the country as president from December 1920 to November 1924 and won another term in 1928, but was assassinated immediately thereafter.

Álvaro Obregón Tapia had been undergoing treatment at a Tucson hospital in the U.S. state of Arizona, which has a wide border with Sonora. He died there less than three months before his 77th birthday.