| LC control no. | n 89132355 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gouled Aptidon, Hassan |
| Variant(s) | Aptidon, Hassan Gouled Gouled, Hassan |
| See also | Djibouti. President (1977-1999 : Gouled Aptidon) |
| Associated country | Djibouti |
| Birth date | 1916 |
| Death date | 20061121 |
| Place of birth | Garissa (Djibouti) Djibouti (Djibouti) |
| Affiliation | Ligue populaire africaine pour l'indépendance (Djibouti) France. Parlement (1946- ). Sénat Djibouti. Présidence de la République Somali and Danakil Youth Club |
| Profession or occupation | Political activists Presidents |
| Found in | Expression d'une jeune république, 1990: t.p. (President El Hadj Hassan Gouled Aptidon) Africa South of the Sahara, 1992 (Hassan Gouled; President Gouled; Hassan Gouled Aptidon, took office 06-27-77) Phone call to Djibouti Embassy, Kenya, 09-03-92 (The President's surname is Gouled Aptidon) New York times WWW site, Nov. 27, 2006 (in obituary published Nov. 23: Hassan Gouled Aptidon; d. Tuesday [Nov. 21, 2006], Djibouti; believed to have been 90; first president of Djibouti; in office for 22 years after independence from France in 1977; stepped down in 1999) Wikipedia WWW site, Nov. 27, 2006 (Hassan Gouled Aptidon; b. Oct. 15, 1916, Garissa, Lughaya district, Somaliland; d. Nov. 21, 2006; president of Djibouti, June 27, 1977-May 8, 1999) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Gouled Aptidon, Hassan; activist; president; born 1916 in Garissa, Djibouti; at age fourteen he left his home to live at a Roman Catholic mission; began his political career as an activist in the Somali and Danakil Youth Club during (1940s); represented French Somaliland (present-day Djibouti) in the French Senate (1952-1958); became president of the nationalist Ligue Populaire Africaine pour l'Indépendance (LPAI) (1972); president of the Republic of Djibouti (1977-1999); died 21 November 2006 in Djibouti, Djibouti) |
| Associated language | fre |
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