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Moktar Ould Daddah

1924 - 2003

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Moktar Ould Daddah (Arabic: مختار ولد داداه, romanized: Mukhtār Wald Dāddāh; December 25, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was a Mauritanian politician who led the country after it gained its independence from France. Daddah served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1957 to 1961 and as its first President of Mauritania, a position he held from 1960 until he was deposed in a military coup d'etat in 1978. He established a one-party state, with his Mauritanian People's Party being the sole legal political entity in the country, and followed a policy of "Islamic socialism" with many nationalizations of private businesses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moktar Ould Daddah has received more than 131,898 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Moktar Ould Daddah is the 5,608th most popular politician (down from 5,572nd in 2019), the most popular biography from Mauritania and the most popular Mauritanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moktar Ould Daddah ranks 5,608 out of 15,577. Before him are Khutulun, At-Ta'i, John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg, Boris Skossyreff, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, and Alparslan Türkeş. After him are François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, Bardylis, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Francisco de Paula Santander, and Kijūrō Shidehara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Moktar Ould Daddah ranks 89. Before him are Paul Desmond, Kenneth Kaunda, James Black, Israel Tal, Vasil Bykaŭ, and Milka Planinc. After him are Antoni Ramallets, David Bronstein, Noboru Takeshita, Torsten Wiesel, Claude Sautet, and Tengiz Abuladze. Among people deceased in 2003, Moktar Ould Daddah ranks 64. Before him are Anna Lindh, John Schlesinger, Vasil Bykaŭ, Georg Henrik von Wright, Ilan Ramon, and Michael P. Anderson. After him are Alan Bates, Donald O'Connor, Uday Hussein, Fred Rogers, Kinji Fukasaku, and Elem Klimov.

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In Mauritania

Among people born in Mauritania, Moktar Ould Daddah ranks 1 out of 16. After him are Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (1956), Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya (1941), Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (1938), Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (1956), Mustafa Ould Salek (1936), Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly (1943), Med Hondo (1936), Ely Ould Mohamed Vall (1953), Abderrahmane Sissako (1961), Yahya Ould Hademine (1953), and Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf (1957).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mauritania

Among politicians born in Mauritania, Moktar Ould Daddah ranks 1. After him are Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (1956), Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya (1941), Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi (1938), Mohamed Ould Ghazouani (1956), Mustafa Ould Salek (1936), Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly (1943), Ely Ould Mohamed Vall (1953), Yahya Ould Hademine (1953), Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf (1957), and Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar (1957).

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