Jacobus Johannes Fouché

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His Excellency Jacobus Johannes Fouché

State President of South Africa
In office 10 April 1968 – 9 April 1975
Preceded by	Jozua François Naudé
Succeeded by	Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs
Minister of Defence
In office 14 December 1959 – 1 April 1966
Personal details
Born	(1898-06-06)6 June 1898 Wepener
Died	23 September 1980(1980-09-23) (aged 82) Cape Town
Nationality	South African
Spouse(s)	Letta McDonald
Children	Jacobus Johannes
Religion	Dutch Reformed

Jacobus Johannes ('Jim') Fouché (6 June 1898, Wepener – 23 September 1980^[1] Cape Town) served as the second President of South Africa from 1968 to 1975.

Born in the Boer republic of the Orange Free State (which became a British colony in 1902 and a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910), Fouché was a successful farmer. A staunch republican, he was a member of the National Party for many years.

Fouché served as Administrator of the Orange Free State from 1950 to 1959, and was then promoted to the Cabinet, where he served as Minister of Defence from 14 December 1959 to 1 April 1966^[2] and as Minister of Agricultural Technical Services and Water Affairs from 1966 to 1968. He was elected State President in place of Dr Eben Dönges (who had been elected, but died before he could take office), and served as ceremonial head of state from 1968 to 1975. He was the only State President to serve his full seven-year term of office, as well as having the second-longest presidency to date (after Thabo Mbeki, who surpassed him on 14 June 2006).

Family

Fouché married Letta Rhoda ('Lettie') McDonald. They had a son, Dr. Jacobus Johannes ('Bux') Fouché, who married Cornelia Jacoba Redelinghuys ('Coreen') Louw. Bux Fouché served as ambassador in The Hague, Netherlands from 1964–1967. He died on 2 October 1982, leaving behind his wife and two sons, Jacobus Johannes ('Jimmy') Fouché and Jacobus Adriaan Louw ('Koos') Fouché.

Jimmy Fouché married Jacoba Elizabeth de Villiers ('Elsabé') Loubser, they have three children: Herculina Johanna ('Hanneline') Fouché (married to Eduard Wium ('Eduard') Mostert), Cornelia Jacoba ('Coreen') Fouché (married to Hendrik van der Merwe ('Merwe') Scholtz) and Jacobus Johannes ('Bux') Fouché. Koos Fouché married Edé Janse van Rensburg and have two children: Jeanne Fouché and Jacobus Johannes ('James') Fouché.

References

↑ http://www.archontology.org/nations/south_africa/sa_pres1/fouche.php
↑ "Leaders through the years (1912-1982)". Scientaria Militaria 12 (2): 92. 1982. |coauthors= requires |author= (help)

Political offices
Preceded by Jozua François Naudé	State President of South Africa 1968–1975	Succeeded by Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs
Preceded by Frans Erasmus	Minister of Defence (South Africa) 1959–1966	Succeeded by Pieter Willem Botha

v t e Leaders of the (Orange) Free State

Administrators of the Orange Free State (1910-1994)	Ramsbottom Wessels Grobler Wilcocks Renseburg Barnard Fouché du Plessis Froneman Wyk van der Merwe Botha van der Watt

Premiers of the Free State (1994-present)	Lekota Matsepe-Casaburri Direko Marshoff Magashule

v t e Defence ministers of South Africa

Pre-Apartheid (1910-1948)	Smuts Mentz Creswell Pirow Smuts (as Prime Minister)

Apartheid-era (1948-1994)	Erasmus Fouché Botha Malan Meyer Louw Coetsee

Post-Apartheid (1994-present)	Modise Lekota Nqakula Sisulu Mapisa-Nqakula

v t e Heads of State of South Africa (List)

Union of South Africa	George V Edward VIII George VI Elizabeth II

Republic (ceremonial)	Charles Robberts Swart Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges Jozua François Naudé^* Jacobus Johannes Fouché Johannes de Klerk^* Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs Marais Viljoen^* B. J. Vorster Marais Viljoen

Republic (executive)	P. W. Botha F. W. de Klerk Nelson Mandela Thabo Mbeki Kgalema Motlanthe Jacob Zuma

^* Acting President

Persondata
Name	Fouche, Jacobus Johannes
Alternative names
Short description	South African politician
Date of birth	6 June 1898
Place of birth	Wepener
Date of death	23 September 1980
Place of death	Cape Town

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