Ruler · 1914 – 1957

Carlos Castillo Armas

Lived 1914 – 1957; politician, military officer, military personnel. President of Guatemala (Guatemala), 1954 – 1957.

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

Lived: 1914 – 1957; 43 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Guatemala
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Guatemala

Guatemala · the 22nd of 44 dated reigns · 1839 – 2024

18 before

Jacobo Árbenz1951 – 1954

Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre1954

Carlos Enrique Díaz de León1954

Carlos Castillo Armas1954 – 1957

Óscar Mendoza Azurdia1957

Luis Arturo González López1957

Guillermo Flores Avendaño1957 – 1958

19 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 1954 – 1957 · 3 years · came to it aged 40

Came to it: elected
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: magnicide

the article also: killed

Castillo Armas was the only candidate; he won the election with 99 percent of the vote, completing his transition into power.

In 1957 Castillo Armas was assassinated by a presidential guard with leftist sympathies.

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