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1987.274.1; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
1987.274.1; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
Francisco Franco
1987.274.1; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
1987.274.1; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum

Francisco Franco

Spanish, 1892 - 1975
Biographical NoteFrancisco Franco was a general and leader of the Nationalist forces that overthrew the Spanish democratic republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); thereafter he was the head of the government of Spain until 1973 and head of state until his death in 1975.