Jesús Murillo Karam
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Jesús Murillo Karam | |
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Attorney General of Mexico | |
In office 4 December 2012 – 27 February 2015 | |
President | Enrique Peña Nieto |
Preceded by | Marisela Morales |
Succeeded by | Arely Gómez González |
President of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 September 2012 – 4 December 2012 | |
Preceded by | Óscar Martín Arce Paniagua |
Succeeded by | Francisco Arroyo Vieyra |
Governor of Hidalgo | |
In office 1 April 1993 – 28 October 1998 | |
Preceded by | Adolfo Lugo |
Succeeded by | Humberto Lugo Gil |
Personal details | |
Born | Real del Monte, Hidalgo | 2 March 1948
Nationality | Mexican |
Political party | Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Hidalgo |
Jesús Murillo Karam (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). 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 in the 2000 presidential election. 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 Senate. In September 2012, he was elected to the LXII Legislature of Congress as the President of the Chamber of Deputies. He later resigned this position to become Attorney General.
He became Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) on 4 December 2012 and resigned on 27 February 2015 to head the Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development.
In August 2022 Murillo Karam was arrested over multiple charges (torture, forced disappearances, and offences against the administration of justice) related to the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping during his tenure as attorney general.
* Requested a leave of absence to leave his post to serve as secretary general of his party.
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Governors of Hidalgo (state)
- Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
- Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
- Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
- Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
- Politicians from Hidalgo (state)
- Mexican people of Lebanese descent
- 21st-century Mexican politicians
- Attorneys general of Mexico
- 20th-century Mexican politicians
- Institutional Revolutionary senator stubs
- Institutional Revolutionary deputy, 1940s birth stubs