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President of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Delgado and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.

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Carlos Delgado


President of Venezuela
In office 24 November 1948 – 13 November 1950
Preceded by	Rómulo Gallegos
Succeeded by	Germán Suárez Flamerich
Minister of Defence
In office 21 October 1945 – 24 November 1948
Preceded by	Delfín Becerra
Succeeded by	Marcos Pérez Jiménez

Personal details
Born	(1909-01-20)20 January 1909 Caracas, United States of Venezuela
Died	13 November 1950(1950-11-13) (aged 41) Caracas, Venezuela
Spouse	Lucía Devine
Children	Carlos Román Delgado Román Carlos Delgado Elena Delgado
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Military service
Allegiance	United States of Venezuela
Branch/service	Venezuelan Army
Years of service	1939–1950
Rank	Captain

Carlos Román Delgado Gómez (20 January 1909 – 13 November 1950) was a Venezuelan military officer who served as president of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950 as leader of a military junta. In 1945, he was one of the high-ranking officers who brought to power the Democratic Action party through a coup d'état. In 1948, as a Minister of Defense, he led another military coup and lingered as the President until his assassination in Caracas.

Early life

Delgado Chalbaud was the son of Román Delgado Chalbaud (grandson of a French immigrant and great-grandson of an Andalusian colonist) and Luisa Elena Gómez Velutini (of Corsican descent). He was known as Carlos Delgado Chalbaud because he used the last name of his father Román Delgado Chalbaud as a tribute to his memory. When he was 20, he approached the cruiser Falke [es] in the port of Danzig (Poland). It landed on the coasts of Cumaná on 11 August 1929, with the purpose to overthrow the strongman Juan Vicente Gomez. In this failed operation his father Román commandant of the expeditionary was killed, leading Carlos 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.

Career

As one of the brightest officials of the Armed Forces associated with the group that overthrew Isaías Medina Angarita in 1945, Carlos was a member of the Government Revolutionary Junta that replaced Medina. He was Minister of Defense during the presidencies of Rómulo Betancourt and Rómulo Gallegos.

In 1948, Chalbaud was among those who overthrew that government of president Gallegos and was a member of the Military Junta of Government along with Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Llovera Páez, who was the titular head of the three-person junta.

Death

Chalbaud was kidnapped and murdered on 13 November 1950, by a group led by Rafael Simón Urbina and his nephew Domingo Urbina. The kidnapping took place in Caracas between the neighborhood of Country Club and Chapellin and his murder took place in the semi-abandoned Las Mercedes neighborhood. His murder seems to be the unintended outcome of a failed kidnapping led by Simón Urbina, who looked to overthrow the Chalbaud presidency. Some believe Urbina despised Delgado Chalbaud, while others argue they were close until a falling out over politics. The day after the capture and imprisonment of Urbina, he was assassinated by orders of the secret police DSN (Direction of National Security), efficiently securing Pérez Jiménez's position as the strongman in Venezuela for the next several years.

Personal life

Chalbaud was married to Lucía Devine, who served as First Lady of Venezuela from 1948 to 1950. Cerro Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (1047m), a mountain in Venezuela's Amazonas estate where the headwaters of the Orinoco River are located, is named after him.

Lucía Devine

References

"State Funeral for Venezuelan Chief Delgado". Lewiston Evening Journal. 15 November 1950. p. 10.

External links

"Carlos Delgado Chalbaud" (in Spanish). Government of Venezuela. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
"Carlos Delgado Chalbaud" (in Spanish). Mipunto.com. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012.

Political offices
Preceded byRómulo Gallegos	President of Venezuela 1948–1950	Succeeded byGermán Suárez Flamerich

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