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Jorge Ubico

1878 - 1946

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Jorge Ubico Castañeda (10 November 1878 – 14 June 1946), nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as the president of Guatemala from 1931 to 1944. A general in the Guatemalan military, he was elected to the presidency in 1931, in an election where he was the only candidate. He continued his predecessors' policies of giving massive concessions to the United Fruit Company and wealthy landowners, as well as supporting their harsh labor practices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorge Ubico has received more than 313,234 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Ubico is the 8,810th most popular politician (down from 8,323rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Guatemala (down from 7th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jorge Ubico ranks 8,810 out of 19,576. Before him are Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza, Danilo Ilić, Albert II, Duke of Bavaria, Yeongnyu of Goguryeo, Egbert I, Margrave of Meissen, and Mesih Pasha. After him are László Csatáry, Manuel II of Trebizond, Hermann of Salm, Anote Tong, Hypatius, and Aristodemus of Cumae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Jorge Ubico ranks 84. Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Louis Camille Maillard, Zabel Yesayan, Edward Kasner, Felix Bernstein, and Luís of Orléans-Braganza. After him are Tullio Serafin, Aino Kallas, Ulrich Graf, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, Frank Jarvis, and Paul Hazard. Among people deceased in 1946, Jorge Ubico ranks 90. Before him are Hermann von Keyserling, Johannes Vares, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Martin Gottfried Weiss, Konstantin Rodzaevsky, and László Bárdossy. After him are Chen Gongbo, Robert Heinrich Wagner, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Bo Gu, Louis Zutter, and Béla Imrédy.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Jorge Ubico ranks 8 out of 44. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), and Juan José Arévalo (1904). After him are Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), Oscar Isaac (1979), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), and Alejandro Maldonado (1936).

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Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Jorge Ubico ranks 6. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), and Juan José Arévalo (1904). After him are Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), and Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857).

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