Ruler · 1900 – 1965

Luis Arturo González López

Lived 1900 – 1965; politician. President of Guatemala (Guatemala), 1957.

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Lived: 1900 – 1965; 65 years
Lines: 1; Guatemala
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

President of Guatemala

Guatemala · the 24th of 44 dated reigns · 1839 – 2024

20 before

Carlos Enrique Díaz de León1954

Carlos Castillo Armas1954 – 1957

Óscar Mendoza Azurdia1957

Luis Arturo González López1957

Guillermo Flores Avendaño1957 – 1958

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes1958 – 1963

Enrique Peralta Azurdia1963 – 1966

17 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 1957 · under a year · came to it aged 57

Came to it: seized power
Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1957; they died in 1965

He became president after the assassination of Carlos Castillo Armas, under whom he was designated as first in the presidential line of succession by Congress.

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