Ruler · 1917 – 2003

Fidel Sánchez Hernández

Lived 1917 – 2003; politician. President of El Salvador (El Salvador), 1967 – 1972.

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 – 2003; 86 years
In office: 5 years; one reign
Lines: 1; El Salvador
Left it: resigned; the ruler's own article

President of El Salvador

El Salvador · the 45th of 55 dated reigns · 1839 – 2019

41 before

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez1931 – 1944

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez1934 – 1935

Andrés Ignacio Menéndez1944

Fidel Sánchez Hernández1967 – 1972

Arturo Armando Molina1972 – 1977

Álvaro Magaña1982 – 1984

José Napoleón Duarte1984 – 1989

7 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 50

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

Sánchez Hernández left office on 1 July 1972, being succeeded by Molina.

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