Ruler · 1920 – 2010

Godfrey Binaisa

Lived 1920 – 2010; politician. President of Uganda (Uganda), 1979 – 1980.

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Lived: 1920 – 2010; 90 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Uganda
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

President of Uganda

Uganda · the 5th of 18 dated reigns · 1963 – 2026

1 before

Milton Obote1966 – 1971

Idi Amin1971 – 1979

Yusuf Lule1979

Godfrey Binaisa1979 – 1980

Saulo Musoke1980

Yoweri Hunter Wacha-Olwol1980

Polycarp Nyamuchoncho1980

10 after

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft 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 1979 – 1980 · 1 year · came to it aged 59

Came to it: appointed
Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1980; they died in 2010

On 20 June 1979, Binaisa was appointed President of Uganda by the National Consultative Commission, which was then the supreme governing body of the Uganda National Liberation Front (UNLF), a coalition of former Ugandan exiles who had helped remove Idi Amin.

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