The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Tombalbaye, Ngarta, 1918-1975

LC control no.no 99029165
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingTombalbaye, Ngarta, 1918-1975
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Tombalbaye, François, 1918-1975
Tombalbaye, Ngartha, 1918-1975
Tūmbālbāy, Franswā, 1918-1975
Associated countryChad
Associated placeCongo (Brazzaville)
Birth date1918-06-15
Death date1975-04-13
Field of activityChad--Politics and government
AffiliationParti progressiste tchadien
Profession or occupationPresidents Teachers Syndicalists
Found inNon à Tombalbaye, c1998: p. 7 (Ngarta Tombalbaye) p. 4 of cover (François Tombalbaye)
Le labyrinthe de l'instabilité politique au Tchad, c1998: p. 19 (N'garta Tombalbaye)
Grand Larousse en 5 volumes, c1989: p. 3032 (Tombalbaye (François Ngarta))
Makers of modern Africa, 1991: p. 752 (Tombalbaye, Ngartha (1918-75)) p. 753 ([in 1973, dropped] his first name, François, for Ngartha)
Notre terre tchadienne, avirl 1966: title page (Parti Progressiste Tchadien, Section Tchadienne du R. D. A.) page 5 (François Tombalbaye, Secrétaire Général du P.P.T.)
Wikipedia, December 3, 2019 (François Tombalbaye; Arabic: Franswā Tūmbālbāy; June 15, 1918 - April 13, 1975; also known as N'Garta Tombalbaye; a Chadian teacher and trade union activist who served as the first president of Chad; the head of Chad's colonial government and its ruling party, the Chadian Progressive Party, after 1959; as a young man he studied to become an educator in the Republic of Congo's capital of Brazzaville, due to lack of in-country schools; he was appointed the head of government after its independence on August 11, 1960; he ruled as a dictator until his deposition and assassination by members of the Chadian military)
Associated languagefre