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Kérékou, Mathieu, 1933-2015

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Personal name headingKérékou, Mathieu, 1933-2015
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Variant(s)Kerecou, Mathieu, 1933-2015
Associated countryBenin Dahomey
Birth date1933-09-02
Death date2015-10-14
Place of birthKouarfa (Benin)
Place of deathCotonou (Benin)
AffiliationParti de la révolution populaire du Bénin
Profession or occupationPresidents Statesmen Armies--Officers
Found inDiscours, between 1975 and 1979- : v. 2, p. 2 (Chief of State, Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu Kérékou)
Internat. WW, 1979-80: p. 643 (Kérékou, Lt.-Col. Mathieu, b. 9/2/33, Natitingou, Pres. and Prime Minister of Benin, 1972-)
Statesman's year-book, 1978-1979: p. 209 (pres. Lieut.-Col. Mathieu Kerecou)
Wikipedia, Sept. 30, 2013 (Mathieu Kérékou (b. Sept. 2 1933, Kouarfa, French Dahomey) was President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and again from 1996 to 2006)
   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_K%C3%A9r%C3%A9kou>
New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 16, 2015 (in obituary published Oct. 15: Mathieu Kérékou; b. Sept. 2, 1933, Kouarfa, Dahomey [now Benin]; d. Wednesday [Oct. 14, 2015], Cotonou, Benin, aged 82; seized control of the West African nation of Benin [called Dahomey until Nov. 30, 1975] in a military coup in 1972 and proclaimed a one-party Marxist state, but nearly two decades later presided over the region's first peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy)
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