Ruler · 1906 – 2002

Joaquín Balaguer

Lived 1906 – 2002; statesperson, politician, diplomat, poet. President of the Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic), 1960 – 1962 and 2 more terms.

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Lived: 1906 – 2002; 96 years
In office: 24 years; 3 reigns
Lines: 1; Dominican Republic
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic · the 19th, 24th and 28th of 33 dated reigns · 1844 – 2020

15 before

Horacio Vásquez1924 – 1930

Rafael Trujillo1930 – 1938

Rafael Trujillo1942 – 1952

Joaquín Balaguer1960 – 1962

Juan Bosch1963

Pedro Bartolomé Benoit1965

Antonio Imbert Barrera1965

Héctor García-Godoy1965 – 1966

Joaquín Balaguer1966 – 1978

Antonio Guzmán Fernández1978 – 1982

Jacobo Majluta1982

Salvador Jorge Blanco1982 – 1986

Joaquín Balaguer1986 – 1996

Leonel Fernández1996 – 2000

Hipólito Mejía2000 – 2004

Leonel Fernández2004 – 2012

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1960 – 1962 · 2 years · came to it aged 54 · term 1 of 3

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

He only held office for seven months, from February 1963 to September 1963, when he was overthrown in a military coup.

Reigned 1966 – 1978 · 12 years · came to it aged 60 · term 2 of 3

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

Reigned 1986 – 1996 · 10 years · came to it aged 80 · term 3 of 3

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1996; they died in 2002

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