- List of state leaders in 1958
1957 state leaders - Events of 1958 - 1959 state leaders -
State leaders by year ----See also:
*List of religious leaders in 1958
*List of international organization leaders in 1958 Africa
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Ethiopia
** Monarch -Haile Selassie ,Emperor of Ethiopia (1930 -1974 )
** Prime Minister -Abebe Aragai ,Prime Minister of Ethiopia (1957 -1960 )
*Ghana
** Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Ghana (1957 -1960 )
** Governor-General - The Earl of Listowel,Governor-General of Ghana (1957 -1960 )
** Prime Minister -Kwame Nkrumah ,Prime Minister of Ghana (1957 -1960 )
*Guinea - "Independence fromFrance ,2 October 1958 "
**President -Ahmed Sékou Touré ,President of Guinea (1958 -1984 )
*Liberia -William V.S. Tubman ,President of Liberia (1944 -1971 )
*Libya -
** Monarch - Idris I,King of Libya (1951 -1969 )
** Prime Minister -Abdul Majid Kubar ,Prime Minister of Libya (1957 -1960 )
*South Africa
** Monarch - Elizabeth II,Queen of South Africa (1952 -1961 )
** Governor-General -Ernest George Jansen ,Governor-General of South Africa (1951 -1959 )
** Prime Minister -
**#Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom ,Prime Minister of South Africa (1954 -1958 )
**#Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd ,Prime Minister of South Africa (1958 -1966 )
*Tunisia -Habib Bourguiba ,President of Tunisia (1957 -1987 )Asia
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Afghanistan
**Monarch -Mohammed Zahir Shah ,King of Afghanistan (1933 -1973 )
**Prime Minister -Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan ,Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1953 -1963 )
*Brunei -Omar Ali Saifuddin III ,Sultan of Brunei (1950 –1967 )
*People's Republic of China
** Head of State -Mao Zedong ,Chairman of the People's Republic of China (1954 -1959 )
** Premier -Zhou Enlai , Premier of the State Council (1949 -1976 )
** Head of Communist Party -Mao Zedong ,Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1935 -1976 )
*India -
**President -Rajendra Prasad ,President of India (1950 -1962 )
**Prime Minister -Jawaharlal Nehru ,Prime Minister of India (1947 -1964 )
*Indonesia -
**President -Sukarno , President of Indonesia (1945 –1967 )
**Prime Minister -Raden Djuanda Kartawidjaja , Prime Minister of Indonesia (1957 -1959 )
*Japan -
**Monarch -Showa Emperor ,Emperor of Japan (1926 -1989 )
**Prime Minister -Nobusuke Kishi ,Prime Minister of Japan (1957 -1960 )
*South Korea -Syngman Rhee , President of the Republic of Korea (1948 -1960 )
* Malaya -
**Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni al-Marhum Yamtuan Muhammad,Yang di-Pertuan Agong (31 August 1957 -1960 )
**Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj,Prime Minister of Malaya (1955 -1959 )
*Pakistan -
**President -
**#Iskandar Ali Mirza ,President of Pakistan (1956 -1958 )
**#Muhammad Ayub Khan ,President of Pakistan (1958 -1969 )
**Prime Minister -
**#Malik Firoz Khan Nun ,Prime Minister of Pakistan (1957 -1958 )
**#Mohammad Ayub Khan (1958 )
**# none (1958 -1971 )
*Philippines -Carlos P. Garcia ,President of the Philippines (1957 -1961 )
* Taiwan (Republic of China )
** President -Chiang Kai-Shek ,President of the Republic of China (1947 -1975 )
** Premier -
**#Yü Hung-chün , President of the Executive Yuan (1954 -1958 )
**#Chen Cheng , President of the Executive Yuan (1958 -1963 )Australia and Oceania
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Australia
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia (1953 –present)
**Governor-General - SirWilliam Slim ,Governor-General of Australia (1953 -1960 )
**Prime Minister - SirRobert Menzies ,Prime Minister of Australia (1939 -1941 ,1949 -1966 )*
New Zealand
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand (1952 -present)
**Governor-General - Viscount Cobham,Governor-General of New Zealand (1957 -1962 )
**Prime Minister -Walter Nash ,Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957 -1960 )
*Tonga
** Monarch - Salote Tupou III, Queen of Tonga (1918 –1965 )
** Prime Minister - Siaosi Taufa'ahau Tupoulahi,Prime Minister of Tonga , (1949 –1965 )Europe
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Austria -
**President -Adolf Schärf ,President of Austria (1957 –1965 )
**Chancellor -Julius Raab ,Chancellor of Austria (1953 –1961 )
*Belgium
** King - Baldwin I, King of the Belgians (1951 -1993 )
** Prime Minister -
**#Achille van Acker , Prime Minister of Belgium (1945 -1946 ,1954 -1958 )
**#Gaston Eyskens , Prime Minister of Belgium (1949 -1950 ,1958 -1961 ,1968 -1973 )
*Denmark
** Monarch - Frederick IX,King of Denmark (1947 -1972 )
** Prime Minister -Hans Christian Hansen ,Prime Minister of Denmark (1955 -1960 )
*Finland
** President -Urho Kekkonen (1956 -1982 )
** Prime Minister -
**#Rainer von Fieandt (1957 -1958 )
**#Reino Kuuskoski (1958 )
**#Karl-August Fagerholm (1948 -1950 ,1956 -1957 ,1958 -1959 )
*France -
**President -René Coty ,President of France (1954 -1959 )
**Prime Minister -
**#Félix Gaillard , President of the Council (1957 -1958 )
**#Pierre Pflimlin , President of the Council (1958 )
**#Charles de Gaulle , President of the Council (1958 -1959 )
*Federal Republic of Germany -
**President -Theodor Heuss , President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 -1959 )
**Chancellor -Konrad Adenauer , Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949 -1963 )
*German Democratic Republic -
**Communist Party Leader -Walter Ulbricht ,General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1950 -1971 )
**President -Wilhelm Pieck , President of the German Democratic Republic (1949 -1960 )
**Premier -Otto Grotewohl , Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1949 -1964 )
* Ireland -
**President -Seán T. O'Kelly ,President of Ireland (1945 -1959 )
**Prime Minister -Éamon de Valera ,Taoiseach (1957 -1959 )
*Italy -
**President -Giovanni Gronchi , President of the Italian Republic (1955 -1962 )
**Prime Minister -
**#Adone Zoli ,Prime Minister of Italy (1957 -1958 )
**#Amintore Fanfani ,Prime Minister of Italy (1958 -1959 )
*Liechtenstein -
**Monarch - Franz Joseph II,Prince of Liechtenstein (1938 -1989 )
**Head of Government -Alexander Frick , Head of Government (1945 -1962 )
*Luxembourg
**Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919 -1964 )
**Prime Minister -
**#Joseph Bech ,Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1926 -1937 ,1953 -1958 )
**#Pierre Frieden ,Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1958 -1959 )
*Netherlands
**Monarch - Queen Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands (1948 -1980 )
**Prime Minister -
**#Willem Drees ,Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948 -1958 )
**#Louis Beel ,Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946 -1948 ,1958 -1959 )
*Norway -
**Monarch -Olav V of Norway ,King of Norway (1957 -1991 )
*Poland
**Communist Party Leader -Władysław Gomułka ,First Secretary of the Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (1956 -1970 )
**Head of State - Council of State, Chairman -Aleksander Zawadzki (1952 -1964 )
**Premier -Józef Cyrankiewicz , President of the Council of Ministers (1954 -1970 )
*Portugal -
**President -
**#Francisco Craveiro Lopes ,President of Portugal (1951 -1958 )
**#Américo Thomaz ,President of Portugal (1958 -1974 )
**Prime Minister -António de Oliveira Salazar , President of the Council of Ministers (1932 -1968 )
*Spain
**Generalísimo -Francisco Franco , Head of the Spanish State and President of the Government (1939 -1975 ), (1939 -1973 )
*Sweden -
**Monarch -Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden , King of Sweden (1950 -1973 )
**Prime Minister -Tage Erlander ,Prime Minister of Sweden (1946 -1969 )
*Turkey
** President -Celal Bayar , President of Turkey (1950-1960)
** Prime Minister -Adnan Menderes ,Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-1960)
*United Kingdom -
**Monarch - Elizabeth II,Queen of the United Kingdom (1952 -present)
**Prime Minister -Harold Macmillan ,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957 -1963 )
*Vatican City
** Pope -
**# Pius XII,Bishop of Rome (1939 -1958 )
**# John XXIII,Bishop of Rome (1958 -1963 )
** Secretary of State -Domenico Cardinal Tardini ,Cardinal Secretary of State (1952 -1961 )Middle East
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Egypt "(became part of the United Arab Republic on February 1)"
**President -Gamal Abdel Nasser ,President of Egypt (1954 -1958 )
**Prime Minister -Gamal Abdel Nasser ,Prime Minister of Egypt (1954 -1958 )
*Israel
**President -Yitzhak Ben-Zvi ,President of Israel (1952 -1963 )
**Prime Minister -David Ben-Gurion ,Prime Minister of Israel (1955 -1963 )
*Oman -Said Bin Taimur ,Sultan of Oman (1932 -1970 )
*United Arab Republic "(created on February 1 out in a union between Egypt and Syria)"
**President -Gamal Abdel Nasser ,President of the United Arab Republic (1958 -1970 )
**Prime Minister -Gamal Abdel Nasser ,Prime Minister of the United Arab Republic (1958 -1962 )North America and the Caribbean
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Canada
**Monarch - Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada (1952 -present)
** Governor General -Vincent Massey , Governor General (1952 -1959 )
**Prime Minister -John Diefenbaker , Prime Minister (1957 -1963 )
*Costa Rica -
*#José Figueres Ferrer , President of Costa Rica (1953 –1958 )
*#Mario Echandi Jiménez , President of Costa Rica (1958 –1962 )
*Cuba
** President -Fulgencio Batista , President of Cuba (1952 -1959 )
** Premier
**#Andrés Rivero Agüero , Premier of Cuba (1957 -1958 )
**#Emilio Núñez Portuondo , Premier of Cuba (1958 )
**#Gonzalo Güell , Premier of Cuba (1958 -1959 )
*Dominican Republic -Héctor Trujillo , President of the Dominican Republic (1952 –1960 )
*El Salvador -José María Lemus ,President of El Salvador (1956 –1960 )
*United States -Dwight Eisenhower ,President of the United States (1953 -1961 )outh America
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Bolivia -Hernán Siles Zuazo ,President of Bolivia (1956 -1960 )
*Brazil -Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira ,President of Brazil (1956 -1961 )
*Ecuador -Camilo Ponce Enríquez ,President of Ecuador (1956 -1960 )
*Paraguay -Alfredo Stroessner ,President of Paraguay (1954 -1989 )
*Peru -Manuel Prado y Ugarteche ,President of Peru (1956 -1962 )
*Uruguay -
*#Arturo Lezama , President of Uruguay (1957 -1958 )
*#Carlos Fischer , President of Uruguay (1958 -1959 )
*Venezuela -
*#Marcos Perez Jimenez , President of Venezuela (1952 -1958 )
*#Wolfgang Larrazabal , President of Venezuela (1958 )
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