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Rafael Caldera
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president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 kai from 1994 to 1999
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Died
- 2009
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Sociologia del derecho ...
- Homenaje al académico Rafael Caldera
- Caldera, dos discursos
- Hacia el renacimiento del derecho ...
- Sociologia juridica ...
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Ramón José Velásquez (acting)
- Succeeded by
- Hugo Chávez
- Born
- Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez , ( 1916-01-24 ) 24 January 1916, San Felipe , Venezuela
- Died
- 24 December 2009 (2009-12-24) (aged 93), Caracas , Venezuela
- Resting place
- East Cemetery
- Party
- COPEI , (1946–1993) , National Convergence , (1993–2009)
- Spouse
- Alicia Pietri Montemayor
- Children
- Mireya Caldera Rafael Tomás Caldera Juan José Caldera Alicia Elena Caldera Cecilia Caldera Andrés Caldera
- Alma mater
- Central University of Venezuela (1926-2009), (1928-2009)
- Occupation
- Lawyer
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Antonio
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Venezuela
- Place of birth
- San Felipe
- Place of death
- Caracas
- Spouse
- Alicia Pietri
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- President of Venezuela
- Educated at
- Central University of Venezuela
- Employer
- Central University of Venezuela
- Political party
- Copei
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Juridical Science
- Official website
- www.rafaelcaldera.com
- Image
- 1967. Retrato de Rafael Caldera.jpg
- Number of children
- 6
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- Commons category
- Rafael Caldera
- date of birth
- 1916-01-24
- date of death
- 2009-12-24
- topic's main category
- Category:Rafael Caldera
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- birth name
- Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez
- second family name in Spanish name
- Rodríguez
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Memoria Chilena
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Encyclopedic overview
Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez ( Spanish pronunciation: [rafaˈel anˈtonjo kalˈdeɾa roˈðɾiɣes] listen; 24 January 1916 – 24 December 2009) was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest serving democratically elected politician to govern the country in the twentieth century.
Widely acknowledged as one of the founders of Venezuela's democratic system, one of the main architects of the 1961 Constitution, and a pioneer of the Christian Democratic movement in Latin America, Caldera was President during the second period of civilian democratic rule in a country beleaguered by a history of political violence and military caudillos.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rafael Caldera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.