Ruler · 1916 – 2012
Ahmed Ben Bella
Lived 1916 – 2012; politician. President of Algeria (Algeria), 1963 – 1965.
Wikidata's English label: Ahmad ibn Billah.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.
- Lived
- 1916 – 2012
- 96 years
- In office
- 2 years
- one reign
- Lines
- 1
- Algeria
- Left it
- deposed
- the ruler's own article
President of Algeria
Algeria · the 4th of 14 dated reigns · 1961 – 2019
Ahmed Ben Bella1963 – 1965
Reigned 1963 – 1965 · 2 years · came to it aged 47
- Came to it
- elected
- Left it
- deposedread from the ruler's own article
Ben Bella succeeded Ferhat Abbas on 15 September 1963 after rapidly sidelining him, and was elected president after winning an election with 99.6 percent of the votes.
He was ousted from power and put under house arrest following a coup d'état by his Minister of Defense Houari Boumédiéne in 1965.
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