- Wolfgang Larrazábal
Infobox_President | name=Wolfgang Larrazábal
order=50thPresident of Venezuela
term_start=January 23 ,1958
term_end=November 14 ,1958
predecessor=Marcos Pérez Jiménez
successor=Edgar Sanabria
birth_date=March 5 ,1911
birth_place=Carúpano , Sucre state,Venezuela
death_date=death date and age|2003|2|27|1911|3|5|mf=y
death_place=Caracas, Venezuela
party=
religion=Roman Catholic
spouse=Mercedes María Peláez |Wolfgang Larrazábal (
March 5 1911 –February 27 2003 ), Commander of theVenezuelan Navy , becamePresident of Venezuela following the overthrow ofMarcos Pérez Jiménez on23 January 1958 .Larrazábal was born in
Carúpano , Sucre state, was the son of Fabio Larrazábal and Jerónima Ugueto, and attended college at the Pestalozzi Institute ofMaracaibo . He later entered the Naval School (1928-1932). Between 1942 and 1945, Larrazábal was captain of the Venezuelan Navy's "General Urdaneta", "Leandro" and "Soublette" ships, later becoming commander of the Naval Base ofPuerto Cabello . In July 1947 he was named commander of the Armed Forces of Venezuela, and, in 1949, naval attaché of the Venezuelan embassy inWashington, DC . Larrazábal also served as director of the National Institute of Sports (1952-1955), director of the Circle of the Armed Forces (1957-1958), and at the beginning of 1958, commander of the Venezuelan Navy.After the overthrow of long-time dictator
Marcos Pérez Jiménez , Admiral Larrazábal was appointed as interim president of the Government Junta onJanuary 23 1958 . His term was characterized by his Emergency Plan, designed to ameliorate adverse economic conditions and speed up the return to democracy. Fairly popular, especially in comparison to Perez Jiménez, he resigned later that year in order to run in the elections of (November 14 1958 ) (Edgar Sanabria was appointed as caretaker president at that point). Larrazábal obtained 903,479 votes, finishing second to AD'sRómulo Betancourt .Larrazábal served as ambassador of Venezuela in
Chile (1959 - 1969), and ran again for president for theFrente Democrático (FDP) andMovimiento Electoral Nacional Independiente (MENI) parties in the 1963 elections, in which he obtained only 9.43% of the vote. He later served several terms in the Venezuelan parliament.See also
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Venezuela
*Presidents of Venezuela References
* [http://www.gobiernoenlinea.gob.ve/venezuela/perfil_presidente33.html Wolfgang Larrazábal] — Official biography.
* [http://www.efemeridesvenezolanas.com/html/larrazabal.htm Wolfgang Larrazábal]
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