Ruler · 1925 – 1980

Anastasio Somoza Debayle

Lived 1925 – 1980; politician. President of Nicaragua (Nicaragua), 1967 – 1972 and 1 more term; also in the line of Somoza family.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1925 – 1980; 55 years
In office: 10 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 2; states
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Nicaragua

Nicaragua · the 49th and 50th of 58 dated reigns · 1854 – 2025

45 before

René Schick1963 – 1966

Orlando Montenegro Medrano1966

Lorenzo Guerrero1966 – 1967

Anastasio Somoza Debayle1967 – 1972

Anastasio Somoza Debayle1974 – 1979

Francisco Urcuyo1979

Daniel Ortega1985 – 1990

Violeta Chamorro1990 – 1997

5 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1967 – 1972 · 5 years · came to it aged 42 · term 1 of 2

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

He stepped down as president on May 1, 1972.

Reigned 1974 – 1979 · 5 years · came to it aged 49 · term 2 of 2

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: deliberate murder; RPG-2

the article also: killed, resigned

He was assassinated in 1980 while in exile in Paraguay.

Also in the line of Somoza family (3rd of 4).

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