Ruler · 1926 – 2002

Hugo Banzer

Lived 1926 – 2002; politician, military personnel. President of Bolivia (Bolivia), 1971 – 1978 and 1 more term.

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Lived: 1926 – 2002; 76 years
In office: 11 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Bolivia
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

President of Bolivia

Bolivia · the 59th and 75th of 83 dated reigns · 1825 – 2025

55 before

Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas1969

Alfredo Ovando1969 – 1970

Juan José Torres1970 – 1971

Hugo Banzer1971 – 1978

Juan Pereda1978

Víctor González Fuentes1978

David Padilla1978 – 1979

… 9 …

Víctor Paz Estenssoro1985 – 1989

Jaime Paz Zamora1989 – 1993

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada1993 – 1997

Hugo Banzer1997 – 2001

Jorge Quiroga2001 – 2002

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada2002 – 2003

Carlos Mesa2003 – 2005

5 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 1971 – 1978 · 7 years · came to it aged 45 · term 1 of 2

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1978; they died in 2002

Reigned 1997 – 2001 · 4 years · came to it aged 71 · term 2 of 2

Left it: resignedread from the ruler's own article

After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Banzer resigned in 2001 and was succeeded by Vice President Jorge Quiroga.

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