Ruler · 1909 – 1996

Alain Poher

Lived 1909 – 1996; statesperson, politician. President of the French Republic of France, 1969 and 1 more term; also in the line of Andorra and French Fifth Republic. The atlas files them under French Third Republic.

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Lived: 1909 – 1996; 87 years
Lines: 3; states
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

President of the French Republic

France · the 26th and 28th of 34 dated reigns · 1824 – 2017

22 before

Vincent Auriol1947 – 1954

René Coty1954 – 1959

Charles de Gaulle1959 – 1969

Alain Poher1969

Georges Pompidou1969 – 1974

Alain Poher1974

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing1974 – 1981

François Mitterrand1981 – 1995

Jacques Chirac1995 – 2007

3 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1969 · under a year · came to it aged 60 · term 1 of 2

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1969; they died in 1996

Reigned 1974 · under a year · came to it aged 65 · term 2 of 2

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1974; they died in 1996

Also in the line of Andorra (109th of 121) and French Fifth Republic (4th of 12).

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