Antonio Toledo Corro facts for kids
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Antonio Toledo Corro
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| Governor of Sinaloa | |
| In office 1 January 1981 – 31 December 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Alfonso Calderón Velarde |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Labastida |
| Secretary of Agrarian Reform of Mexico | |
| In office 6 July 1978 – 15 April 1983 |
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| President | José López Portillo |
| Preceded by | Jorge Rojo Lugo |
| Succeeded by | Javier García Paniagua |
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| Born | 1 April 1919 Escuinapa de Hidalgo, Sinaloa |
| Died | 6 July 2018 (aged 99) Mazatlán, Sinaloa |
| Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
| Spouse |
Estela Ortiz
(m. 1946; died 2009) |
Antonio Toledo Corro (1 April 1919 – 6 July 2018) was a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
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Biography
Born in Escuinapa de Hidalgo, he served as municipal president of Mazatlán from 1959 to 1962. Toledo ran a tractor business and was the director of a newspaper. He was Secretary of the Agrarian Reform of Mexico during the term of President José López Portillo, a personal friend, from 1978 to 1980.
Toledo was Governor of Sinaloa from 1981 to 1986. During his tenure a highway connecting Culiacán with Guasave was built, and the Universidad de Occidente and the Colegio de Bachilleres de Sinaloa were founded.
Personal life
Toledo was married to Estela Ortiz and had three sons.
Death
He died on July 6, 2018, at the age of 99. He had been hospitalized in a Mazatlan hospital since June 29, and had been suffering from several different ailments, including pneumonia.
See also
In Spanish: Antonio Toledo Corro para niños
