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Garang, John, 1945-2005

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Personal name headingGarang, John, 1945-2005
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Variant(s)De Mabior, John Garang, 1945-2005
Garang de Mabior, John, 1945-2005
Mabior, John Garang de, 1945-2005
Qaranq, Jūn, 1945-2005
،قرنق، جون 1945-2005
قرنق، جون
Atem, John Garang de Mabior, 1945-2005
Mabioor, John Garang de, 1945-2005
Associated countrySudan South Sudan Tanzania United States
Birth date1945-06-23
Death date2005-07-30
Place of birthWangkulei (Sudan)
Place of deathImatong (Sudan)
AffiliationSudan People's Liberation Army Sudan People's Liberation Movement
Profession or occupationArmed Forces--Officers Vice-Presidents
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Found inHis John Garang speaks, 1987: t.p., etc. (John Garang) flyleaf (John Garang de Mabior; b. 1945, Southern Sudan; BA, PhD in econ., in US)
This convention is sovereign, 1994: t.p. (Dr. John Garang de Mabior)
Rasāʼil tārīkhīyah bayna al-Sayyid al-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī wa-al-Duktūr Jūn Qaranq, 2000: t.p. (Dr. John Garang [in rom.])
Wikipedia WWW site, Aug. 1, 2005 (under John Garang: John Garang de Mabior; b. June 23, 1945; d. July 30, 2005; vice president of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed January 23, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Garang, John; political figure, foreign military officer; born in 1945 in Wangkulei, Sudan; BA in economics from Grinnell College in Iowa (1968); agricultural economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; master's in agricultural economics at Iowa State (1973-1974); doctorate in agricultural economics at Iowa State (1981); absorbed at rank of captain in the Sudanese army; one of the founders of the Sudan People's Liberation Army / Movement (SPLA/M) at Etang in Ethiopia, becoming chair and commander in chief; fought to liberate south Sudan from Islamic fundamentalist governments (1983-2005); when a coup was waged against the SPLA/M leadership, it fractured into two factions- SPLA-Torit, led by Garang, and SPLA-Nassir, led by Riek Machar; the government of Sudan and SPLA/M signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) (2005); first vice president of Sudan and president of the government of southern Sudan, becoming the first south Sudanese to hold this position (2005); died 30 July 2005 in Imatong, Sudan)
Dr. John Garang de Mabior Atem, 2017: t.p. (Dr. John Garang de Mabior Atem) p. 9 (Dr. Garang)
The genius of Dr. John Garang, 2013: vol. 1, title page (SPLM/A's leader, Dr. John Garang de Mabioor) vol. 1, cover (Dr. John Garang de Mabior)