page_title: Creel-Terrazas Family
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Creel-Terrazas Family / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Tomb of Luis Terrazas, Chihuahua, Mexico
context_page_description: The Creel-Terrazas Family is a powerful and wealthy family based in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
context_section_description: Some noteworthy members of the family are:
  Don Luis Terrazas (1829–1923), founder of the clan.  Elected  Governor of Chihuahua in 1860, host, political ally and confidant of President Benito Juárez during the French Intervention.  His ranches once totaled more than 7 million acres (28,000 km²).  When asked once at a social function if he were from Chihuahua, he was reported to have replied, "No soy de Chihuahua; Chihuahua es mío" ("I'm not from Chihuahua; Chihuahua is mine"). Said to have faced-down his enemy Pancho Villa in a confrontation during the early days of the Revolution;  he and Villa died in the same year (Terrazas from old age; Villa by assassination). Served as governor for various terms of office between 1860 and 1904.
  Enrique Creel (1854–1931): Porfirian Governor of Chihuahua from 1904 to 1906 and again from 1907 to 1911. He was the son of Reuben Creel, once the US Consul in Chihuahua, and became son-in-law of Don Luis Terrazas by virtue of marriage to his daughter (Reuben Creel and Luis Terrazas were married to sisters of the wealthy Cuilty family whose ancestry was Irish and was related to Sir Thomas More). Enrique Creel served as Mexico's Minister of Foreign Relations and as its Ambassador to the United States.  He served as interpreter when Presidents Porfirio Díaz and William Howard Taft met in 1909 on the international bridge between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso.  He became vice-president of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway, where he was responsible for the construction of part of the railroad west of the city of Chihuahua. His haciendas totalled 1.7 million acres (6,900 km²).
  Don Silvestre Terrazas (1873–1944), a distant cousin of Luis Terrazas, publisher of the newspaper El Correo de Chihuahua (The Chihuahua Mail), political nemesis of Enrique Creel, and revolutionary Governor of Chihuahua, serving two terms of office.  More information is available at: .
  Juan Terrazas Cuilty (1852–1925), a son of Luis Terrazas and Carolina Cuilty (1833–1919), businessman and industrialist.  He established powerful financial interests in Monterrey companies that are today Vitro, S.A. and Grupo Cemex. His descendants still enjoy considerable interests in these prominent Mexican firms.
  Alberto Terrazas Cuilty (1869–1926), a son of Luis Terrazas and Carolina Cuilty, served as Governor of Chihuahua from 1910–11.  Industrialist, businessman, banker and appointed colonel in the army by Gen. Victoriano Huerta, he fought against Villa and remained in Chihuahua until 1914 when he was badly wounded in the Revolution, then moved to El Paso, TX.
  Santiago Creel Miranda was the Minister of the Interior (Secretario de Gobernación) of Mexico from 2000 to 2005, representing the conservative PAN party. On June 1, 2005, he presented his resignation to President Vicente Fox to (unsuccessfully) seek his party's presidential nomination. He is a leading figure in the Mexican Senate.
  Gustavo Madero Muñoz (born 1955), a great-grandson of Juan Terrazas Cuilty, is former president of PAN (National Action Party) one of the most powerful parties in Mexico.
  Federico Terrazas Torres is the chairman of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC), one of the largest concrete makers/distributors in Mexico with subsidiaries in the United States (GCC also has four other members of the family on its board of directors). Member of the board of various other Mexican companies, he is also the President of Directory Advisory Board of Higher Education of Chihuahua, Misiones Coloniales de Chihuahua, A.C., Promotora Cultural de Chihuahua, A.C., and Promotora de la Cultura Mexicana, A.C. Terrazas is a graduate of the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) with a degree in Public Accounting.
  Enrique Terrazas Torres, a brother of Federico, is president of Grupo Ruba and Copachisa and a director of various other Mexican enterprises, including Cementos de Chihuahua , and the former Director of the state Economic Development Department .  He holds degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Cornell University.
  Jaime Creel Sisnieg
caption: Tomb of Don Luis Terrazas and his wife, Carolina Cuilty de Terrazas, in Chihuahua.
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