Francisco Luna Kan

Francisco Luna Kan
Francisco Luna Kan
	Francisco Luna Kan in his home office in Mérida, 2010.
Governor of Yucatán
	In office; 1 February 1976 – 31 January 1982
Preceded by	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
Succeeded by	Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
Member of the Chamber of Deputies ; for Yucatán′s 3rd district
	In office; 1 September 1964 – 31 August 1967
Preceded by	Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz
Succeeded by	Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer
Personal details
Born	December 3, 1925; Mérida, Yucatán
Political party	Institutional Revolutionary Party,; Party of the Democratic Revolution
Spouse(s)	Gloria Soria Vera

Dr. Francisco Epigmenio Luna Kan (born December 3, 1925) is a Mexican politician. Francisco Luna Kan was governor of the state of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982.[1]

Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he was a practicing doctor of medicine then taught as a Professor of Medicine before first obtaining political office, at first being overseer of the state's rural medical system.

Francisco Luna Kan was the first person of pure Maya ancestry to govern Yucatán since the Spanish conquest of Yucatán.[2] (In the early 1920s, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, who was partly Maya, had been governor.) For centuries the political elite had been Criollos (Yucatecans of pure Spanish ancestry). It was widely said that party officials of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) took the unusual step of selecting a person of Maya descent as their candidate in 1975 because the opposition National Action Party had been getting many votes in Yucatán, and PRI candidates had been getting a poor showing in the state's predominantly Maya towns and villages. It was said that PAN got the majority of votes in the previous governor's race, and the PRI managed to maintain control of the state only through fraud in counting votes.

After his term as governor Luna Kan resigned from the PRI and joined the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He unsuccessfully ran as that party's candidate for mayor of Mérida in 1998. As of 2004 Francisco Luna Kan holds a seat in Mexico's Chamber of Deputies of Mexico as a PRD deputy for Yucatán.

References

Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993. University of Texas Press. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-292-71181-5. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
Standish, Peter (2009-03-20). The states of Mexico: a reference guide to history and culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-313-34223-3. Retrieved 17 February 2011.

Preceded by Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz	Governor of Yucatán 1976 — 1982	Succeeded by Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón

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[Camp1995-1] Camp, Roderic Ai (1995). Mexican political biographies, 1935-1993. University of Texas Press. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-292-71181-5. Retrieved 17 February 2011.

[Standish2009-2] Standish, Peter (2009-03-20). The states of Mexico: a reference guide to history and culture. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-313-34223-3. Retrieved 17 February 2011.