- Born
- Nicknames
- AMLO
- El Peje
- Juan Trump
- La Piedra
- El Molido
- El Americano
- El Commandante
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador was born on November 11, 1953 in Tepetitan, Tabasco, Mexico. He has been married to Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller since October 16, 2006. They have one child. He was previously married to Rocío Beltrán Medina.
- SpousesBeatriz Gutiérrez Müller(October 16, 2006 - present) (1 child)Rocío Beltrán Medina(April 8, 1978 - January 12, 2003) (her death, 3 children)
- Nominated as presidential candidate for the PRD for the 2006 general election in Mexico.
- Won the 2018 Mexican General Election on July 1, 2018 with 53% of the national popular vote in the first outright victory since 1988 and won the most states of any Presidential Candidate carrying 31 out of the 32 states since Ernesto Zedillo's Controversial 1994 Election Victory in which he won all 32 states of Mexico. He is the first Left-Wing President of Mexico since 1929. He will be inaugurated as President of Mexico on December 1, 2018 18 days after his 65th Birthday.
- Before winning the 2018 Mexican General Election he had previously ran for President of Mexico in 2006 and 2012, in both cases he lost the elections first in a narrow loss of 243,934 votes to the victor Felipe Calderon and by a wider margin of 3,192,281 votes to the current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Following the 2006 General Election Lopez Obrador held many post election victory rallies and protests claiming to be the 'legitimate president' of Mexico after rejecting the official results by causing the closure of the Paseo de la Reforma main road in Mexico City. In 2012 he again rejected the official results alleging vote buying and bribery by his rival Pena Nieto.
- He is an avid baseball fan and supporter of the St Louis Cardinals.
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