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Rómulo Gallegos
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Rómulo Gallegos

President of Venezuela
In office
17 February 1948 – 24 November 1948
Preceded byRómulo Betancourt
Succeeded by Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
Senator for life
In office
23 January 1961 – 5 April 1969
Personal details
Born 2 August 1884
Caracas, Venezuela
Died 7 April 1969 (aged 84)Caracas, Venezuela
Political party Acción Democrática
Spouse(s) Teotiste Arocha Egui
Religion Roman Catholic
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Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 7 April1969[1]) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of some nine months during 1948, he was the first cleanly elected president in his country's history.
Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracasto Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin. He began his work as a schoolteacher, writer, and journalist in 1903. His novel Doña Bárbara was first published1929, and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country. He took refuge in Spain, where he continued to write: hisacclaimed novels Cantaclaro (1934) and Canaima (1935) date from this period. He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and was appointed Minister of Public Education.
In 1937 he was elected to Congress and, in1940–41, served as councillor of Caracas. In 1945, was involved in the coup d'état that brought Rómulo Betancourt and the "Revolutionary Government Junta" to power, in the period known as El TrienioAdeco. In the 1947 general election he ran for the presidency of the republic as the Acción Democrática candidate and won in what is generally believed to be the country's first honest election. Hetook office in February 1948, but officers Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, threw him out of office in November in the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état. He took...