Ruler · 1889 – 1956

Juan Federico Ponce Vaides

Lived 1889 – 1956; politician. President of Guatemala (Guatemala), 1944.

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Lived: 1889 – 1956; 67 years
Lines: 1; Guatemala
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Guatemala

Guatemala · the 15th of 44 dated reigns · 1839 – 2024

11 before

Manuel María Orellana Contreras1930 – 1931

José María Reina Andrade1931

Jorge Ubico1931 – 1944

Juan Federico Ponce Vaides1944

Jorge Toriello Garrido1944 – 1945

Francisco Javier Arana1944 – 1945

Juan José Arévalo1945 – 1951

26 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 1944 · under a year · came to it aged 55

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

He was overthrown by a popular uprising on 20 October 1944 that began the Guatemalan Revolution.

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