Ruler · 1932 – 1978

Houari Boumédiène

Lived 1932 – 1978; politician, military personnel. President of Algeria (Algeria), 1965 – 1978.

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Lived: 1932 – 1978; 46 years
In office: 13 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Algeria
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

President of Algeria

Algeria · the 5th of 14 dated reigns · 1961 – 2019

1 before

Abderrahmane Farès1962

Ferhat Abbas1962 – 1963

Ahmed Ben Bella1963 – 1965

Houari Boumédiène1965 – 1978

Rabah Bitat1978 – 1979

Chadli Bendjedid1979 – 1992

Abdelmalek Benhabyles1992

6 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officethis entry

Reigned 1965 – 1978 · 13 years · came to it aged 33

Came to it: seized power
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; Waldenström macroglobulinemia

In June 1965, Boumédiène overthrew President Ben Bella in a bloodless coup before proceeding to abolish Algeria's parliament along with its constitution and ultimately becoming the country's acting head of state.

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