Higinio Moríñigo
President of Paraguay
Died when: 86 years 16 days (1032 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Higinio Nicolás Morínigo Martínez (January 11, 1897 – January 27, 1983) was a Paraguayan military officer, politician and president, he participated in the Chaco War (1932–1935) as a prominent officer of the Paraguayan Army.
After the war he would be appointed Chief of the Cabinet of the Ministry of War and Navy during the presidency of Félix Paiva, he would be Minister of the Interior between January and August 1939 and would be appointed as Minister of War and Navy and promoted to brigadier general in May 1940 during the government of José Félix Estigarribia, who would die in a plane crash a few months later, so Morínigo would be appointed as President of Paraguay, a position he would hold until 1948.
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