Ruler · 1930 – 2019

Hussain Muhammad Ershad

Lived 1930 – 2019; politician, military officer. President of Bangladesh (Bangladesh), 1983 – 1990.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1930 – 2019; 89 years
In office: 7 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Bangladesh
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Bangladesh

Bangladesh · the 11th of 22 dated reigns · 1971 – 2026

7 before

Ziaur Rahman1977 – 1981

Abdus Sattar1981 – 1982

A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury1982 – 1983

Hussain Muhammad Ershad1983 – 1990

Shahabuddin Ahmed1990 – 1991

Abdur Rahman Biswas1991 – 1996

Shahabuddin Ahmed1996 – 2001

8 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 1983 – 1990 · 7 years · came to it aged 53

Came to it: seized power
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: deposed

He seized power as a result of a bloodless coup against President Abdus Sattar on 24 March 1982 (by imposing martial law and suspending the Constitution).

Ershad was forced to resign as president following a popular mass uprising led by Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina.

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