Émile Derlin Zinsou
Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou ( born March 23, 1918 in Ouidah ) was 1968-1969 President of Dahomey, now Benin.
Life
Zinsou studied medicine and was politically active during the French colonial period.
After independence the then Dahomey 1960, he was often entrusted with diplomatic tasks. Domestically, he stayed away from the rival parties. After the founding of the Organisation of African Unity, he was at times as a candidate for the office of Secretary-General.
The military regime that took power in 1967, asked him to take over the presidency because he had a reputation as a nonpartisan and tried to balance personality. He assumed the office on 17 July 1968. In December 1969, a military coup ended his presidency. During the one-party rule of the Marxist President Mathieu Kérékou 1972 to 1990 he was regarded as an oppositionist.
As President Kérékou paved the way to democracy, Zinsou became a member of the formed on 9 March 1990 Council Haut Conseil pour la République, who acted as a provisional supreme body. This council were next Zinsou to former heads of state Ahomadegbé - Tomêtin, Congacou and Maga.
He was present when the Treaty establishing the African Union was signed on 12 July 2000 in Lomé and is vice president of the Haut Conseil de la Francophonie, whose president Jacques Chirac.
Hubert Maga | Christophe Soglo | Sourou - Migan Apithy | Justin Ahomadegbé - Tomêtin | Tahirou Congacou | Christophe Soglo | Maurice Kouandété | Alphonse Amadou Alley | Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou | Maurice Kouandété | Paul -Émile de Souza | Hubert Maga | Justin Ahomadegbé - Tomêtin | Mathieu Kérékou | Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo | Mathieu Kérékou | Boni Yayi
- President ( Benin)
- Secretary of State (Benin)
- Beninese
- Born in 1918
- Man