Isaias medina angarita biography

President of Venezuela from 1941 to 1945

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

Isaías Medina Angarita (6 July 1897 – 15 September 1953) was a Venezuelan military and political leader, the president of Venezuela from 1941 until 1945, during World War II. He followed the path of his predecessor Eleazar López Contreras, and ruled the country's democratic transition process.

Career

Medina was born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela, and graduated from the Military academy of Venezuela in 1914.^[1] He served as War Minister from 1936 to 1941 under López Contreras. In 1943, he founded the Venezuelan Democratic Party. Medina Angarita was the first Venezuelan president who traveled abroad (in active office). First, in 1943 to the Bolivarian countries, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Panama, and in January 1944, the United States invited by Franklin Delano Isaias medina angarita biography pdf!