List of state leaders in 1953

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3.1 East, South and Southeast Asia
3.2 Middle East
3.3 Central Asia

Africa

Egypt ( since June 18, 1953 Republic of ) Head of state: King Fu'ad II ( 1952-18. June 1953 )
President Ali Muhammad Naguib (June 18, 1953-1954, 1954) ( 1952-1954, 1954 Prime Minister )

Ethiopia Head of State: Emperor Haile Selassie (1930-1974) (1936-1941 in exile )
Head of government: Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen (1942-1957)

Liberia Heads of State and Head of Government: President William S. Tubman (1944-1971)

Libya Head of state: King Idris (1951-1969)
Head of government: Prime Minister Mahmud al - Muntasir (1951-1954, 1964-1965)

South Africa Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II (1952-1961) Governor General Ernest George Jansen (1951-1959)

America

North America

Canada Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Governor General Vincent Massey (1952-1959)

Mexico Heads of State and Head of Government: President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952-1958)

United States of America Heads of State and Head of Government: President Harry S. Truman ( 1945-20. January 1953 )
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (January 20, 1953-1961 )

Central America

Costa Rica Heads of State and Head of Government: President Otilio Ulate Blanco ( 1949-8. November 1953 )
President José Figueres Ferrer (1948-1949, November 8, 1953-1958, 1970-1974 )

Dominican Republic Heads of State and Head of Government: President Hector Bienvenido Trujillo Molina (1952-1960)

El Salvador Heads of State and Head of Government: President Óscar Osorio (1950-1956)

Guatemala Heads of State and Head of Government: President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán (1951-1954)

Haiti Heads of State and Head of Government: President Paul Eugène Magloire (1950-1956)

Honduras Heads of state and head of government: President Juan Manuel Gálvez (1949-1954)

Cuba Heads of State and Head of Government: President Fulgencio Batista (1940-1944, 1952-1959)

Nicaragua Heads of State and Head of Government: President Anastasio Somoza García (1937-1947, 1950-1956)

Panama Heads of state and head of government: President Jose Antonio Remon Cantera (1952-1955)

South America

Argentina Heads of state and head of government: President Juan Perón (1946-1955, 1973-1974)

Bolivia Heads of State and Head of Government: President Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1952-1956, 1960-1964, 1985-1989)

Brazil Heads of State and Head of Government: President Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945, 1951-1954)

Chile Heads of State and Head of Government: President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1927-1931, 1952-1958)

Ecuador Heads of State and Head of Government: President José María Velasco Ibarra (1934-1935, 1944-1947, 1952-1956, 1960-1961, 1968-1972)

Colombia Heads of State and Head of Government: President Laureano Gómez ( 1950-13. June 1953 )
President Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez ( 1951-13. June 1953 ) (acting)
President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (June 13, 1953-1957 )

Paraguay Heads of State and Head of Government: President Federico Chaves (1949-1954) (acting to 15 August 1953)

Peru Head of state: President Manuel A. Odría (1949-1950, 1950-1956)
Head of government: Prime Minister Zenón Noriega Agüero (1950-1954) (1950 State)

Uruguay Heads of State and Head of Government: Chairman of the Mationalrat Andrés Martínez Trueba (1951-1956) ( until 1952 President )

Venezuela Heads of State and Head of Government: President Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958) ( until April 19, 1953 provisional)

Asia

East, South and Southeast Asia

Bhutan Head of state: King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (1952-1972)
Head of government: Prime Minister Jigme Palden Dorji (1952-1964)

Burma ( Myanmar since 1989 ) Head of state: President Ba U (1952-1957)
Head of government: Prime Minister U Nu (1948-1956, 1957-1958, 1960-1962)

Ceylon ( Sri Lanka since 1972 ) Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II (1952-1972) Governor General: Herwald Ramsbotham (1949-1954)

Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake Shelton ( 1952-12. October 1953, 1960, 1970-1975 )
Prime Minister John Lionel Kotalawela (12 October 1953-1956 )

China Party Leader: Chairman The Communist Party of China Mao Zedong (1934-1976)
Head of state: Chairman of the Central People's Government of Mao Zedong (1949-1954)
Head of government: Prime Minister Zhou Enlai (1949-1976)

Republic of China ( Taiwan) Head of state: President Chiang Kai- shek (1950-1975) (1928-1931, 1928-1943 Chairman of the National Government of China, 1948-1949 President of Nationalist China, 1930-1931, 1935-1938, 1939-1945, 1947 Prime Minister of Nationalist China )
Head of government: Prime Minister Chen Cheng (1950-1954, 1958-1963)

India Head of state: President Rajendra Prasad (1950-1962)
Head of government: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1947-1964)

Indonesia Head of state: President Sukarno (1945-1967)
Head of government: Prime Minister Wilopo ( 1952-30. July 1953 )
Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo (July 30, 1953-1955, 1956-1957 )

Japan Head of State: Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989) (1921-1926 Regent )
Head of government: Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida (1946-1947, 1948-1954)

Cambodia ( since November 9, 1953 independent) Head of state: King Norodom Sihanouk (1941-1955, 1960-1970, 1975-1976, 1991-2004)
Head of government: Prime Minister Penn Nouth (1948-1949 24 January, 1953-22. November 1953, 1954-1955, 1958, 1961, 1968-1969, 1975-1976 )
Prime Minister Chan Nak (November 23, 1953-1954 )

North Korea Party Leader: Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Il-sung (1946-1994)
Head of state: Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Du- bong (1948-1957)
Head of government: Prime Minister Kim Il-sung (1948-1972)

South Korea Head of state: President Rhee Syng -man (1948-1960)
Head of government: Prime Minister Baek Du- jin (1952-1954)

Laos (since October 22, 1953 independent) Head of state: King List of the rulers of Laos Sisavang Vong (1904-1959)
Head of government: Prime Minister Suvanna Phūmā (1951-1954, 1956-1958, 1960, 1962-1975 )

Nepal Head of state: King Tribhuvan (1911-1950, 1951-1955)
Head of government: vacant ( 1952-15. June 1953 )
Matrika Prasad Koirala Prime Minister (1951-1952, 1953-1955 June 15 )

Pakistan Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II (1952-1956) Governor General: Ghulam Muhammad (1951-1955)

Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin ( 1951-17. April 1953 )
Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Bogra (April 17, 1953-1955 )

Philippines Heads of State and Head of Government: President Elpidio Quirino ( 1948-30. December 1953 )
President Ramon Magsaysay (30 December 1953-1957 )

Sikkim ( under Indian suzerainty ) Head of state: King Tashi Namgyal (1914-1963)
Head of government: Dewan John S. Lall (1949-1954)

Thailand Head of state: King Rama IX. Bhumibol Adulyadej (since 1946)
Head of government: Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1938-1944, 1948-1957)

North Vietnam Head of state: President Hồ Chí Minh (1945-1969)
Head of government: Prime Minister Hồ Chí Minh (1945-1955)

South Vietnam Head of state: President Bảo Dai (1949-1955)
Head of government: Nguyễn Văn Tâm Prime Minister ( 1952-17. December 1953 )
Nguyễn Phúc Prime Minister Bửu Lộc (17 December 1953-1954 )

Southwest Asia

Iraq Head of state: King Faisal II (1939-1958)
Head of government: Prime Minister Nureddin Mahmud ( 1952-29. January 1953 )
Prime Minister Jamil al - Midfai (1933-1934, 1935, 1937-1938, 1941 29 January, 1953-17. September 1953 )
Prime Minister Muhammad Fadhel al - Jamali (17 September 1953-1954 )

Iran Head of state: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979)
Head of government: Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh (1951-1952, 1952-19. August 1953 )
Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi (19 August 1953-1955 )

Israel Head of state: President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1952-1963)
Head of government: Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion ( 1948-7. December 1953, 1955-1963 )
Prime Minister Moshe Scharet (December 7, 1953 to 1955 )

Yemen Ruler: King Ahmad ibn Yahya (1948-1955, 1955-1962)
Head of government: Prime Minister Hassan ibn Yahya (1948-1955)

Jordan Head of state: King Hussein (1952-1999) Regent: Regency (. 1952-2 May 1953 )

Prime Minister Tawfiq Abu al - Huda (1938-1944, 1947-1950, 1951-5. May 1953, 1954-1955 )
Prime Minister Fawzi al - Mulki (May 5, 1953-1954 )

Lebanon Head of state: President Camille Chamoun (1952-1958)
Head of government: Prime Minister Khaled Chehab (1938, 1952-1. May 1953 )
Prime Minister Saeb Salam (1952, May 1 1953-16. August 1953, 1960-1961, 1970-1973 )
Prime Minister Abdullah Aref al - Yafi (1938-1939, 1951-1952 16 August 1953 to 1954, 1956, 1966, 1968-1969 )

Oman (1891-1971 British protectorate ) Ruler: Sultan Said ibn Taimur (1932-1970)

Saudi Arabia Heads of State and Head of Government: King Abd al- Aziz ibn Saud ( 1932-9. November 1953 )
King Saud ibn Abd al - Aziz (November 9, 1953-1964 )

Syria Head of state: President Fawzi Selu (1951-1953) (1951-1953 Prime Minister )
President Adib al- Shishakli (1951, July 11, 1953-1954 ) ( 1953-1954 Prime Minister )

Prime Minister Fawzi Selu ( 1951-19. July 1953 ) ( 1951-1953 President )
Prime Minister Adib al- Shishakli (19 July 1953-1954 ) (1951, 19536-1954 President )

Turkey Head of state: President Celâl Bayar (1950-1960) (1937-1939 Prime Minister )
Head of government: Prime Minister Adnan Menderes (1950-1960)

Central Asia

Afghanistan Head of State: King Mohammed Zahir Shah (1933-1973)
Head of government: Prime Minister Sardar Shah Mahmud Khan (1946-1953)

Mongolia Head of state: Chairman of the Grand State Churals Gontschigiin Bumtsend ( 1940-23. September 1953 )
(acting) Süchbaataryn Jandschmaa (September 23, 1953-1954 )

Australasia

Australia Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Governor General: William McKell ( 1947-8. May 1953 )
William Slim (May 8, 1953 to 1960 )

New Zealand Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Governor General: Charles Norrie (1952-1957)

Europe

Albania Party leader: first secretary of the Albanian Workers' Party Enver Hoxha ( 1948-1985 )
Head of state: Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly Omer Nishani ( 1946-1. August 1953 )
Chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly Haxhi Lleshi (August 1, 1953-1982 )

Andorra Co - Prince: President of France Vincent Auriol (1947-1954)
Bishop of Urgell: Ramon Iglésias Navarri (1943-1969)

Belgium Head of state: King Baudouin I (1951-1993)
Head of government: Prime Minister Jean Van Houtte (1952-1954)

Bulgaria Party Leader: General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party Walko Chervenkov (1949-1954)
Head of state: Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly Georgi Damjanow (1950-1958)
Head of government: Chairman of the Council of Ministers Wulko Chervenkov (1950-1956)

Denmark Head of State: King Frederick IX. (1947-1972)
Head of government: Prime Minister Erik Eriksen ( 1950-30. September 1953 )
Prime Minister Hans Hedtoft (1947-1950, September 30, 1953-1955 )

Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1955 under occupation law) Head of State: President Theodor Heuss (1949-1959)
Head of Government: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1949-1963)

German Democratic Republic Party Leader: General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Walter Ulbricht (1950-1971) (1960-1973 State Council Chairman)
Head of state: President Wilhelm Pieck (1949-1960)
Head of government: Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl (1949-1964)

Finland Head of state: President Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1946-1956)
Head of government: Prime Minister Urho Kekkonen ( 1950-17. November 1953, 1954-1956) ( 1956-1982 President )
Prime Minister Sakari Tuomioja (November 17, 1953-1954 )

France President Vincent Auriol (1947-1954)

President of the Council of Ministers Antoine Pinay ( 1952-8. January 1953 )
President of the Council of Ministers René Mayer ( 8 January to 28 June 1953)
President of the Council of Ministers Joseph Laniel (June 28, 1953-1954 )

Greece Head of state: King Paul (1947-1964)
Head of government: Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos (1952-1955)

Ireland Head of state: President Seán Ó Ceallaigh (1945-1959)
Head of government: Prime Minister Éamon de Valera (1932-1948, 1951-1954, 1957-1959) (1959-1973 President )

Iceland Head of state: President Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1952-1968) (1932-1934 Prime Minister )
Head of government: Prime Minister Steingrímur Steinthorsson ( 1950-11. September 1953 )
Ólafur Thors, Prime Minister (1942, 1944-1947, 1949-1950, September 11, 1953-1956, 1959-1963 )

Italy Head of state: President Luigi Einaudi (1948-1955)
Head of government: Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi ( 1945-17. August 1953 )
Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella (August 17, 1953-1954 )

Yugoslavia Head of state: President Ivan Ribar ( 1945-14. January 1953 )
President Josip Broz Tito (January 14, 1953-1980 ) ( 1945-1963 Prime Minister )

Channel Islands Guernsey Head of state: Duchess Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Vice Governor: Philip Neame (1945-1953)
Thomas Elmhirst (1953-1958)

Head of state: Duchess Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Vice Governor: Arthur Edward Grassett (1945-1953)
Gresham Nicholson (1953-1958)

Liechtenstein Head of State: Prince Franz Josef II (1938-1989)
Head of government: Alexander Frick (1945-1962)

Luxembourg Head of State: Grand Duchess Charlotte (1919-1964) (1940-1945 in exile in Britain )
Head of government: Prime Minister Pierre Dupong ( 1937-23. December 1953 )
Prime Minister Joseph Bech (1926-1937, December 29, 1953-1958 )

Isle of Man Head of state: Lord of Man Elizabeth II ( since 1952) Vice Governor: Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (1952-1959)

Monaco Head of State: Prince Rainier III. (1949-2005)
Head of government: State Minister Pierre Voizard ( 1950-2. September 1953 )
Minister of State Henry Soum (November 15, 1953-1959 )

Netherlands Head of state: Queen Juliana (1948-1980)
Head of government: Prime Minister Willem Drees (1948-1958)

Norway Head of state: King Haakon VII (1905-1957) (1940-1945 in exile in Britain )
Head of government: Prime Minister Oscar Torp (1951-1955)

Austria (1945-1955 under occupation law) Head of State: President Theodor Körner (1951-1957)
Head of government: Chancellor Leopold Figl ( 1945-25 February 1953. )
Chancellor Julius Raab (2 April 1953-1961 )

Poland Party Leader: Secretary General Bolesław Bierut (1948-1956) (1947-1952 President ) (1952-1954 Prime Minister )
Head of state: President Aleksander Zawadzki State Council (1952-1964)
Head of government: Prime Minister Bolesław Bierut (20 November 1952-1954 ) ( 1948-1956 Party leader ) ( 1974-1952 President )

Portugal Head of state: President Francisco Craveiro Lopes (1951-1958)
Head of government: Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968)

Romania Party Leader: General Secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu -Dej (1945-1954, 1955-1965) (1952-1954 Prime Minister ) (1961-1965 head of state )
Head of state: President of the Presidium of the National Assembly Petru Groza (1952-1958) (1945-1952 Prime Minister )
Head of government: Prime Minister Gheorghe Gheorghiu -Dej (1952-1955) ( 1945-1954,1955-1965 party leader ) ( 1961-1965 head of state )

San Marino Captains Regent: Arnaldo Para (1948, October 1st 1952-1. April 1953 ) and Eugenio Bernardini (1 October 1952-1. April 1953, 1956-1957 )
Vincenzo Pedini (1946, 1949 to 1950.1. April 1953-1. October 1953 ) and Alberto reffi (1 April 1953-1. October 1953 )
Giordano Giacomini (1948-1949 October 1, 1953-1. April 1954, 1957) and Giuseppe Renzi (1948, October 1st 1953-1. April 1954 )

Sweden Head of state: King Gustav VI. Adolf (1950-1973)
Head of government: Prime Minister Tage Erlander (1946-1969)

Switzerland German President: Philipp Etter (1939, 1942, 1947, 1953)
Bundesrat: Philipp Etter (1934-1959)
Karl Kobelt (1941-1954)
Max Pierre Petit (1945-1961)
Rodolphe Rubattel (1948-1954)
Josef Escher (1950-1954)
Markus Feldmann (1952-1958)
Max Weber (1952-1954)

Soviet Union Party leader: General Secretary of the Communist Party Joseph Stalin (1922-1953)
General Secretary of the CPSU Georgi Malenkov (March 6, 1953-15. March 1953 )
First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev (March 15, 1953-1964 ) ( 1958-1964 Chairman of the Council of Ministers )

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Shvernik ( 1946-15. March 1953 )
Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Kliment Voroshilov (15 March 1953-1960 )

Chairman of the Council of Ministers Joseph Stalin ( 1941-5. March 1953 )
Chairman of the Council of Ministers Georgi Malenkov (March 5, 1953-1955 )

Spain Heads of State and Head of Government: Caudillo Francisco Franco (1939-1975)

Czechoslovakia Party leader: President Klement Gottwald ( 1929-14. March 1953 )
President Antonín Novotný (14 March 1953-1968 ) ( 1957-1968 President )

President Klement Gottwald ( 1948-14. March 1953 )
President Antonín Zápotocký (March 14, 1953-1957 ) ( 1948-1953 Prime Minister )

Prime Minister Antonín Zápotocký ( 1948-21. March 1953 ) ( 1953-1957 President )
Prime Minister Viliam Široký (March 21, 1953-1963)

Hungary Party Leader: General Secretary of the Party of the Hungarian Working People Mátyás Rákosi (1945-1956) (1946, 1947, Prime Minister from 1952 to 1953 )
Head of state: Chairman of the Presidential Council István Dobi (1952-1967) (1948-1952 Prime Minister )
Head of government: Prime Minister Mátyás Rákosi (1946, 1947, 1952-4. July 1953 ) ( party leader from 1945 to 1956 )
Prime Minister Imre Nagy (4 July 1953-1955, 1956)

Vatican City Head of state: Pope Pius XII. (1939-1958)

United Kingdom Head of State: Queen Elizabeth II (since 1952) ( crowned 1953)
Head of government: Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1940-1945, 1951-1955)

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