Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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President of Peru
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Place of Birth: Lima, Peru
About Ricardo Pérez Godoy
- Ricardo Pío Pérez Godoy (9 June 1905 – 26 July 1982) was a general of the Peruvian army who launched a coup d'état in July 1962, headed a military junta until March 1963 and served as the 55th President of Peru (1st President of the Military Junta). Three main candidates participated in the Peruvian presidential elections of 10 June 1962: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, founder and leader of the APRA, future president Fernando Belaúnde, and former dictator Manuel A.
- Odría.
- Haya de la Torre gained most of the votes according to the official results, one percentage point ahead of Belaúnde. However, none of the candidates reached the margin of one-third of the votes needed to become president.
- Therefore, the final decision lay with the Peruvian Congress.
- Haya de la Torre and Odría formed an alliance in order to install Odría as the new president.
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