Leopoldo Sánchez Celis | |
Office: | Governor of Sinaloa |
Term Start: | 1 January 1941 |
Term End: | 21 February 1944 |
Predecessor: | Alfredo Delgado Ibarra |
Successor: | Teodoro Cruz R. |
Birth Date: | 27 June 1893 |
Death Place: | Mazatlán, Sinaloa |
Nationality: | Mexican |
Party: | Institutional Revolutionary Party |
Profession: | Politician |
Rodolfo T. Loaiza (27 June 1893-21 February 1944) was a Mexican politician who was Governor of Sinaloa from 1940 to 1944.He was murdered on February 21, 1944, in the patio of the Belmar Hotel, in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.[1] The murderer was Rodolfo Valdés, 'El Gitano', he was one of the first hitmen that existed in Sinaloa. After being on the run for a while was captured and sentenced to prison.[2]