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Joaquín Balaguer

1906 - 2002

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Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (1 September 1906 – 14 July 2002) was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and 1986 to 1996. His enigmatic, secretive personality was inherited from the Trujillo era, as well as his desire to perpetuate himself in power through dubious elections and state terrorism, and he was considered to be a caudillo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joaquín Balaguer has received more than 692,379 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Joaquín Balaguer is the 5,836th most popular politician (down from 5,819th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Dominican Republic (up from 5th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dominican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joaquín Balaguer ranks 5,836 out of 19,576. Before him are Dino Grandi, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Danilo Türk, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, Rahmon Nabiyev, and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. After him are Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Bai Chongxi, Az-Zahir, Mundzuk, and Borrell II, Count of Barcelona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Joaquín Balaguer ranks 89. Before him are Rezső Kasztner, Vera Menchik, Phạm Văn Đồng, Franz Hössler, Carlo Scarpa, and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev. After him are Heinz Harmel, John Dickson Carr, Lillian Asplund, Janet Gaynor, John Carradine, and Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 2002, Joaquín Balaguer ranks 65. Before him are John Frankenheimer, Joe Strummer, Chico Xavier, Shigeo Sugimoto, Abba Eban, and Erwin Chargaff. After him are Cyrus Vance, Roberto Matta, Infanta Beatriz of Spain, Peggy Lee, John Entwistle, and Velibor Vasović.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer ranks 4 out of 51. Before him are Rafael Trujillo (1891), Oscar de la Renta (1932), and Théodore Chassériau (1819). After him are Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Hatuey (1478), Maria Montez (1912), Juan Bosch (1909), Danilo Medina (1951), Leonel Fernández (1953), Máximo Gómez (1836), and Héctor Trujillo (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Dominican Republic

Among politicians born in Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer ranks 2. Before him are Rafael Trujillo (1891). After him are Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Hatuey (1478), Juan Bosch (1909), Danilo Medina (1951), Leonel Fernández (1953), Héctor Trujillo (1908), Luis Abinader (1967), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), Hipólito Mejía (1941), and Ulises Heureaux (1845).

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