Rafael Caldera
President of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 kai from 1994 to 1999 · Venezuela · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1916 to 2009 · aged 93
Rafael Antonio Caldera Rodríguez was a Venezuelan politician and academician who was the 46th and 51st president of Venezuela from 1969 to 1974 and again from 1994 to 1999, thus becoming the longest serving democratically elected politician to govern the country in the twentieth century.
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The child Rafael Caldera, dressed as a sailor, 1920.
Caldera at nineteen years, 1935.
Rafael Caldera during the High School graduation awards, Colegio San Ignacio, Caracas, 16 October 1931. (Handwritten text): "For my adored mom and dad, a keepsake of my school with total devotion".
Caldera during his engagement to Alicia. Also in the photo: his father, Rafael Caldera Izaguirre, his sister Rosa Elena, and his aunt and uncle (who became his adoptive parents) Maria Eva Rodríguez and Tomás Liscano, at Miracielos, Caracas, 1940.
In the auditorium of the Central University of Venezuela, upon graduating as a lawyer and doctor of Political Science in 1939.
1941. The youngest representative to be appointed to the National Congress, Rafael Caldera was twenty-five years old.
Rafael Caldera during the 1947 Presidential campaign. Arriving at San Cristóbal, Táchira.
