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Anastasio Somoza García

1896 - 1956

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Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 until his assassination on 29 September 1956, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military dictator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anastasio Somoza García has received more than 630,317 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Anastasio Somoza García is the 2,821st most popular politician (up from 3,074th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Nicaragua (up from 5th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Nicaraguan Politician.

Anastasio Somoza García was the president of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1979. He is most famous for being a dictator who ruled Nicaragua with an iron fist.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anastasio Somoza García ranks 2,821 out of 19,576. Before him are Nicos Anastasiades, Berenice, Norman Angell, Michelle Obama, James III of Scotland, and Emperor Go-Sai. After him are John, King of Denmark, Kārlis Ulmanis, Manuel Godoy, Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Louis Barthou, and Władysław Anders.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Anastasio Somoza García ranks 38. Before him are Célestin Freinet, Howard Hawks, John Dos Passos, A. J. Cronin, Helen of Greece and Denmark, and Sandro Pertini. After him are Lewis Strauss, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Nobusuke Kishi, Tina Modotti, and Herbert Backe. Among people deceased in 1956, Anastasio Somoza García ranks 25. Before him are Bela Lugosi, Reinhold Glière, H. L. Mencken, Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Bolesław Bierut. After him are Wilhelm Miklas, Joseph Wirth, Alexander Dovzhenko, Émile Borel, Daniel Swarovski, and Elisabeth of Romania.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza García ranks 4 out of 34. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Augusto César Sandino (1895), and Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925). After him are Violeta Chamorro (1929), Rubén Darío (1867), Ernesto Cardenal (1925), Barbara Carrera (1945), Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Bianca Jagger (1945), and Arnoldo Alemán (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nicaragua

Among politicians born in Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza García ranks 3. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), and Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925). After him are Violeta Chamorro (1929), Ernesto Cardenal (1925), Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), Edén Pastora (1936), José Santos Zelaya (1853), and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871).

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