predecessor successor |name birth_place profession party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end
fernando elizondo barragán rodrigo medina josé natividad gonzález parás monterrey , nuevo león lawyer institutional revolutionary party governor of nuevo león 30 march 1949 october 4 , 2003 cristina maiz natividad gonzalez paras.jpg josé natividad gonzález parás
 october 3 , 2009
josé natividad gonzález parás

josé natividad gonzález parás -lrb- b. march 30 , 1949 in monterrey -rrb- is a mexican politician affiliated to the institutional revolutionary party .
he is a former federal deputy and former governor of nuevo león -lrb- 2003 -- 2009 -rrb- he is also married to cristina maiz gonzález parás is the son of josé natividad gonzález gonzález and maría cristina parás barocio and a direct descendant of josé maría parás , governor of the state -lrb- 1825 -- 1827 and 1848 -- 1850 -rrb- .
he received a bachelor 's degree in law from the autonomous university of nuevo león , a master 's degree in public administration from the french public administration international institute -lrb- nowadays '' École nationale d'administration '' , 1973 -rrb- and a doctorate in political sciences from the university of paris i '' -lrb- panthéon-sorbonne -rrb- '' .
he joined the institutional revolutionary party in 1967 and has taught several courses at `` el colegio de méxico '' , at the national autonomous university of mexico and at the autonomous university of nuevo león .
from 1985 until 1991 he served as the state secretary general of nuevo león and for a few years he served as undersecretary of political development at the mexican secretariat of the interior during the ernesto zedillo administration .
in 1997 he ran for governor and lost against fernando canales clariond , a wealthy businessman of the conservative national action party .
six years later he reattempted it and won by a clear margin over his closest opponent , mauricio fernández garza .
