Ruler · 1923 – 2018

Belisario Betancur

Lived 1923 – 2018; politician, diplomat, writer. President of Colombia (Colombia), 1982 – 1986.

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

Lived: 1923 – 2018; 95 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Colombia
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of Colombia

Colombia · the 60th of 70 dated reigns · 1812 – 2026

56 before

Misael Pastrana Borrero1970 – 1974

Alfonso López Michelsen1974 – 1978

Julio César Turbay Ayala1978 – 1982

Belisario Betancur1982 – 1986

Virgilio Barco Vargas1986 – 1990

César Gaviria1990 – 1994

Ernesto Samper1994 – 1998

7 after

deposed, 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 1982 – 1986 · 4 years · came to it aged 59

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

Betancur retired from politics after he left office in 1986.

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