Ruler · 1924 – 2003

Moktar Ould Daddah

Lived 1924 – 2003; politician. President of Mauritania (Mauritania), 1960 – 1978.

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Lived: 1924 – 2003; 79 years
In office: 18 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Mauritania
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Mauritania

Mauritania · the 1st of 10 dated reigns · 1960 – 2019

Moktar Ould Daddah1960 – 1978

Mustafa Ould Salek1978 – 1979

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly1979 – 1980

Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla1980 – 1984

6 after

deposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 1960 – 1978 · 18 years · came to it aged 36

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Moktar served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held for 18 years until he was deposed in a military coup d'etat in 1978.

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