Ruler · 1892 – 1969

Enrique Peñaranda

Lived 1892 – 1969; politician, military personnel. President of Bolivia (Bolivia), 1940 – 1943.

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Lived: 1892 – 1969; 77 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Bolivia
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Bolivia

Bolivia · the 44th of 83 dated reigns · 1825 – 2025

40 before

David Toro1936 – 1937

Germán Busch1937 – 1939

Carlos Quintanilla1939 – 1940

Enrique Peñaranda1940 – 1943

Gualberto Villarroel1943 – 1946

Néstor Guillén1946

Tomás Monje1946 – 1947

36 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 1940 – 1943 · 3 years · came to it aged 48

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Just under a year later on 20 December 1943, President Enrique Peñaranda was deposed in a coup d'état led by the young military officer Gualberto Villaroel and supported by the MNR.

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