Ruler · 1917 – 1989

Ferdinand Marcos

Lived 1917 – 1989; politician. President of the Philippines (Philippines), 1965 – 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: 1917 – 1989; 72 years
In office: 21 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Philippines
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of the Philippines

Philippines · the 9th of 16 dated reigns · 1935 – 2022

5 before

Ramon Magsaysay1953 – 1957

Carlos P. Garcia1957 – 1961

Diosdado Macapagal1961 – 1965

Ferdinand Marcos1965 – 1986

Corazon Aquino1986 – 1992

Fidel V. Ramos1992 – 1998

Joseph Estrada1998 – 2001

4 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 1965 – 1986 · 21 years · came to it aged 48

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Following the lifting of martial law in 1981, a wide-ranging economic crisis, and the assassination of Ninoy Aquino, Marcos was deposed in 1986 by the People Power Revolution and was succeeded as president by Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino.

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