List of state leaders in 1963

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1962 state leaders - Events of 1963 - 1964 state leaders - State leaders by year

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Contents 1 Africa 2 Asia 3 Australia and Oceania 4 Europe 5 Middle East 6 North America and the Caribbean 7 South America

[edit] Africa

• Algeria -
  • President - Ahmed Ben Bella, President of Algeria (1962-1965)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Ahmed Ben Bella, Prime Minister of Algeria (1962-1963)
    2. Position eliminated
• Burundi
  • Monarch - Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng, King of Burundi (1915-1966)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. André Muhirwa, Prime Minister of Burundi (1961-1963)
    2. Pierre Ngendandumwe, Prime Minister of Burundi (1963-1964)
• Côte d'Ivoire - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (1960-1993)
• Dahomey
  • President -
    1. Hubert Maga, President of Dahomey (1960-1963)
    2. Christophe Soglo, President of Dahomey (1963-1964)
• Guinea
  • President - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (1958-1984)
• Kenya independent from Britain on December 12
  • Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Kenya (1963-1964)
  • Governor-General - Malcolm John MacDonald, Governor-General of Kenya (1963-1964)
  • Prime Minister - Jomo Kenyatta, Prime Minister of Kenya (1963-1964)
• Liberia - William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia (1944-1971)
• Mali
  • President - Modibo Keita, President of Mali (1960-1968)
  • Prime Minister - Modibo Keita, Prime Minister of Mali (1960-1965)
• Mauritania - Moktar Ould Daddah, President of Mauritania (1960-1978)
• Nigeria
  • Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Nigeria (1960-1963)
  • Governor-General - Nnamdi Azikiwe, Governor-General of Nigeria (1960-1963)
  • President - Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria (1963-1966)
  • Prime Minister - Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Prime Minister of Nigeria (1960-1966)
• Rwanda
  • President - Grégoire Kayibanda, President of Rwanda (1961-1973)
• Senegal
  • President - Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal (1960-1980)
• Somalia
  • President - Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, President of Somalia (1960-1967)
  • Prime Minister - Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, Prime Minister of Somalia (1960-1964)
• Togo
  • President -
    1. Sylvanus Olympio, President of Togo (1960-1963)
    2. Emmanuel Bodjollé, Chairman of the Insurrection Committee (1963)
    3. Nicolas Grunitzky, President of Togo (1963-1967)
• Uganda
  • President - Sir Edward Mutesa, President of Uganda (1962-1966)
  • Prime Minister - Milton Obote, Prime Minister of Uganda (1962-1971)
• Upper Volta - Maurice Yaméogo, President of Upper Volta (1960-1966)
• Zanzibar
  • Sultan -
    1. Abdullah bin Khalifa, Sultan of Zanzibar (1960-1963)
    2. Jamshid bin Abdullah, Sultan of Zanzibar (1963-1964)
  • Prime Minister - Sheikh Muhammad Shamte Hamadi, Prime Minister of Zanzibar (1963-1964)

[edit] Asia

• Afghanistan
  • Monarch - Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953-1963)
    2. Mohammad Yusuf, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1963-1965)
• Brunei - Omar Ali Saifuddin III, Sultan of Brunei (1950–1967)
• People's Republic of China
  • Head of State - Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959-1968)
  • Premier - Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council (1949-1976)
  • Head of Communist Party - Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1935-1976)
• India -
  • President - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India (1962-1967)
  • Prime Minister - Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India (1947-1964)
• Japan
  • Monarch - Showa Emperor, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
  • Prime Minister - Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (1960-1964)
• South Korea -
  • President - Park Chung Hee, President of the Republic of Korea (1963-1979)
  • Head of Government -
    1. Kim Hyun-chul, Chief Cabinet Minister of the Republic of Korea (1962-1963)
    2. Ch'oi Tu-son, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (1963-1964)
• Malaysia
  • Malaysia formed by admitting Sabah, Sarawak, and Singapore into the Federation of Malaya on September 16
  • Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1960-1965)
  • Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj, Prime Minister of Malaysia (1957-1970)
• Pakistan - Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (1958-1969)
• Philippines - Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines (1961-1965)
• Taiwan (Republic of China)
  • President - Chiang Kai-Shek, President of the Republic of China (1947-1975)
  • Premier -
    1. Chen Cheng, President of the Executive Yuan (1958-1963)
    2. Yen Chia-kan, President of the Executive Yuan (1963-1972)

[edit] Australia and Oceania

• Australia
  • Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth (1952-present)
  • Governor-General - William Sidney, Governor-General of Australia (1961-1965)
  • Prime Minister - Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (1939-1941, 1949-1966)
• Tonga
  • Monarch - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (1918 – 1965)
  • Prime Minister - Siaosi Taufa'ahau Tupoulahi, Prime Minister of Tonga, (1949 – 1965)

[edit] Europe

• Belgium
  • King - Baudouin I, King of the Belgians (1951-1993)
  • Prime Minister - Théodore Lefèvre, Prime Minister of Belgium (1961-1965)
• Denmark
  • Monarch - Frederick IX, King of Denmark (1947-1972)
  • Prime Minister - Jens Otto Krag, Prime Minister of Denmark (1962-1968)
• Finland
  • President - Urho Kekkonen (1956-1981)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Ahti Karjalainen (1962-1963, 1970-1971)
    2. Reino Ragnar Lehto (1963-1964)
• France -
  • President - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1959-1969)
  • Prime Minister - Georges Pompidou, Prime Minister of France (1962-1968)
• Federal Republic of Germany -
  • President - Heinrich Lübke, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959-1969)
  • Chancellor -
    1. Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1963)
    2. Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1963-1966)
• German Democratic Republic -
  • Communist Party Leader - Walter Ulbricht, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950-1971)
  • Head of State - Walter Ulbricht, Chairman of the Council of State (1960-1973)
  • Premier - Otto Grotewohl, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1949-1964)
• Ireland -
  • President - Éamon de Valera, President of Ireland (1959-1973)
  • Prime Minister - Seán Lemass, Taoiseach (1957-1966)
• Italy -
  • President - Antonio Segni, President of the Italian Republic (1962-1964)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (1960-1963)
    2. Giovanni Leone, Prime Minister of Italy (1963)
    3. Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy (1963-1968)
• Liechtenstein -
  • Monarch - Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
  • Head of Government - Gerard Batliner, Head of Government (1962-1970)
• Luxembourg
  • Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-1964)
  • Regent - Jean, Regent of Luxembourg (1961-1964)
  • Prime Minister - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1959-1974, 1979-1984)
• Netherlands
  • Monarch - Queen Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948-1980)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Jan de Quay, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1959-1963)
    2. Victor Marijnen, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1963-1965)
• Norway -
  • Monarch - Olav V of Norway, King of Norway (1957-1991)
• Poland
  • Communist Party Leader - Władysław Gomułka, First Secretary of the Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (1956-1970)
  • Head of State - Council of State, Chairman - Aleksander Zawadzki (1952-1964)
  • Premier - Józef Cyrankiewicz, President of the Council of Ministers (1954-1970)
• Portugal -
  • President - Américo Thomaz, President of Portugal (1958-1974)
  • Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, President of the Council of Ministers (1932-1968)
• Spain
  • Generalísimo - Francisco Franco, Head of the Spanish State and President of the Government (1939-1975), (1939-1973)
• Sweden
  • Monarch - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, King of Sweden (1950-1973)
  • Prime Minister - Tage Erlander, Prime Minister of Sweden (1946-1969)
• United Kingdom -
  • Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1952-present)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957-1963)
    2. Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1963-1964)
• Vatican City
  • Pope -
    1. John XXIII, Bishop of Rome (1958-1963)
    2. Paul VI, Bishop of Rome (1963-1978)
  • Secretary of State - Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani, Cardinal Secretary of State (1961-1969)

[edit] Middle East

• Israel
  • President -
    1. Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, President of Israel (1952-1963)
    2. Kadish Luz, interim President of Israel (1963)
    3. Zalman Shazar, President of Israel (1963-1973)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (1955-1963)
    2. Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (1963-1969)
• Oman - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)
• United Arab Republic
  • President - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic (1958-1970)
  • Prime Minister - Ali Sabri, Prime Minister of the United Arab Republic (1962-1965)
• Yemen Arab Republic
  • President - Abdullah as-Sallal, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1967)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. Abdullah as-Sallal, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1962-1963)
    2. Abdul Latif Dayfallah, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1963)
    3. Abdul Rahman al-Iryani, Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic (1963-1964)

[edit] North America and the Caribbean

• Canada
  • Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (1962-present)
  • Governor General - Georges Vanier, Governor General (1959-1967)
  • Prime Minister -
    1. John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister (1957-1963)
    2. Lester B. Pearson, Prime Minister (1963-1968)
• Costa Rica
  • Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, President of Costa Rica (1962–1966)
• Cuba
  • President - Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, President of Cuba (1959-1976)
  • Premier - Fidel Castro, Premier of Cuba (1959-1976)
• El Salvador - Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, President of El Salvador (1962–1967)
• Guatemala
  1. José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (2 March 1958 – 31 March 1963
  2. Alfredo Enrique Peralta Azurdia, President of Guatemala (31 March 1963 – 1 July 1966)
• Honduras
  1. Ramón Villeda Morales, President of Honduras (21 December 1957 – 3 October 1963)
  2. Oswaldo López Arellano, President of Honduras (3 October 1963 – 7 June 1971)
• Mexico
  • Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico (1958–1964)
• Nicaragua
  • Luis Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua
• United States -
  1. John F. Kennedy, President of the United States (1961 – November 22, 1963)
  2. Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States (November 22, 1963 – 1969)

[edit] South America

• Brazil - João Goulart, President of Brazil (1961-1964)
• Colombia - Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia (1962-1966)
• Paraguay - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (1954-1989)
• Peru -
  1. Ricardo Pérez Godoy, President of Peru (1962-1963)
  2. Nicolás Lindley, President of Peru (1963)
  3. Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (1963-1968)