Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
| Carlos Delgado Chalbaud | |
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| President of Venezuela | |
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In office 24 November 1948 – 13 November 1950 |
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| Preceded by | Rómulo Gallegos |
| Succeeded by | Germán Suárez Flamerich |
| Minister of Defense | |
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In office 21 October 1945 – 24 November 1948 |
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| Preceded by | Delfín Becerra |
| Succeeded by | Marcos Pérez Jiménez |
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| Born |
20 January 1909 Caracas |
| Died | 13 November 1950 (aged 41) Caracas |
| Spouse(s) | Lucía Devine |
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Carlos Román Delgado Chalbaud Gómez (20 January 1909 – 13 November 1950) was a Venezuelan career military officer, and as leader of a military junta was President of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950. By 1945 he was a high-ranking officer and was among the leaders of a military coup which brought to power the mass membership party Democratic Action. In 1948, whilst Minister of Defense, he led another military coup and became head of state as President of a military junta, serving in that position until his death. He was assassinated in Caracas.
Delgado Chalbaud was the son of Román Delgado Chalbaud (grandson of a French immigrant and great-grandson of Andalusian colonist) and Luisa Elena Gómez Velutini (of Corsican descent). He was known as Carlos Delgado Chalbaud because he used the last names of his father Román Delgado Chalbaud as a form of tribute to his memory. With just 20 years old he approaches the cruise Falke in the port of Danzig (Poland), that landed in the coasts of Cumaná the August 11 of 1929, with the purpose of overthrow the strongman Juan Vicente Gomez. In this failed operation his father Román commandant of the expeditionaries was shot and died, reason why Carlos decided to return to France. Delgado Chalbaud spent most of his life in Paris, where he studied engineering and later attended the Saint Cyr military academy. He returned to Venezuela in 1939 and was promptly commissioned in the Venezuelan army by president General Eleazar Lopez Contreras with the rank of captain.
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