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1987.281.1 a; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
1987.281.1 a; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
Nicolae Ceaușescu
1987.281.1 a; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum
1987.281.1 a; Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Romanian, 1918 - 1989
Dates in Office 1974 - 1989 President of Romania
1965 - 1989 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party
1967 - 1989 President of the State Council
Biographical Notewas a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989. He was the second and last communist leader of Romania. He was also the country's head of state from 1967 to 1989, serving as President of the State Council and from 1974 concurrently as President of the Republic, until his overthrow and execution in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, part of a series of anti-communist uprisings in Eastern Europe that year.
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