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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Carlos Delgado Chalbaud<br />
| image = Carlos Delgado Chalbaud1 (cropped).jpg<br />
| order = [[President of Venezuela]]<br />
| term_start = 24 November 1948<br />
| term_end = 13 November 1950<br />
| predecessor = [[Rómulo Gallegos]]<br />
| successor = [[Germán Suárez Flamerich]]<br />
| order2 = [[Ministry of Defence (Venezuela)|Minister of Defence]]<br />
| term_start2 = 21 October 1945<br />
| term_end2 = 24 November 1948<br />
| predecessor2 = Delfín Becerra<br />
| successor2 = [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1909|1|20}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|11|13|1909|1|20}}<br />
| death_place = Caracas, Venezuela<br />
| signature = Carlos Delgado Chalbaud firma.jpg<br />
| party = <br />
| spouse = Lucía Devine|<br />
| allegiance = {{flagicon|United States of Venezuela}} [[Venezuela]]<br />
| serviceyears = 1939–1950<br />
| branch = {{army|Venezuela}}<br />
| rank = [[Lieutenant Colonel]]<br />
| children = Carlos Román Delgado<br />Román Carlos Delgado<br />Elena Delgado<br />
}}<br />
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'''Carlos Román Delgado Gómez''' (20 January 1909 – 13 November 1950) was a [[Venezuelan]] military officer who served as [[president of Venezuela]] from 1948 to 1950 as leader of a [[Military dictatorship|military junta]]. In 1945, he was one of the high-ranking officers who brought to power the [[Democratic Action (Venezuela)|Democratic Action]] party through a [[1945 Venezuelan coup d'état|coup d'état]]. In 1948, as a Minister of Defense, he led another [[1948 Venezuelan coup d'état|military coup]] and ruled as President until his assassination in Caracas.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Delgado Chalbaud was the son of [[Román Delgado Chalbaud]] (grandson of a French immigrant and great-grandson of an Andalusian colonist) and Luisa Elena Gómez Velutini (of Corsican descent). He was known as Carlos Delgado Chalbaud because he used the last name of his father Román Delgado Chalbaud as a tribute to his memory. When he was 20, he approached the cruiser ''{{ill|Falke (ship)|lt=Falke|es|Falke}}'' in the port of [[Danzig]] ([[Poland]]). It landed on the coasts of [[Cumaná]] on 11 August 1929, with the purpose to overthrow the strongman [[Juan Vicente Gomez]]. In this failed operation his father [[Roman Delgado Chalbaud|Román]] commandant of the expeditionary was killed, leading Carlos to return to [[France]].<br />
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Delgado Chalbaud spent most of his life in [[Paris]], where he studied engineering and later attended the [[Saint-Cyr Military Academy|Saint-Cyr military academy]]. He returned to Venezuela in 1939 and was promptly commissioned in the Venezuelan army by president General [[Eleazar Lopez Contreras]] with the rank of captain.<br />
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==Career==<br />
As one of the brightest officials of the Armed Forces associated with the group that overthrew [[Isaías Medina Angarita]] in 1945, Carlos was a member of the Government Revolutionary Junta that replaced Medina. He was Minister of Defense during the presidencies of [[Rómulo Betancourt]] and [[Rómulo Gallegos]].<br />
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In 1948, Chalbaud was among those who overthrew that government of president Gallegos and was a member of the Military Junta of Government along with [[Marcos Pérez Jiménez]] and Luis Llovera Páez, who was the titular head of the three-person junta.<br />
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==Death==<br />
Chalbaud was kidnapped and murdered on 13 November 1950,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yWIpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LWcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2176%2C4216241 |title=State Funeral for Venezuelan Chief Delgado |work=Lewiston Evening Journal |date=15 November 1950 |page=10}}</ref> by a group led by [[Rafael Simón Urbina]] and his [[nephew]] Domingo Urbina. The kidnapping took place in Caracas between the neighborhood of Country Club and Chapellin and his murder took place in the semi-abandoned Las Mercedes neighborhood. His murder seems to be the unintended outcome of a failed kidnapping led by Simón Urbina, who looked to overthrow the Chalbaud presidency. Some believe Urbina despised Delgado Chalbaud, while others argue they were close until a falling out over politics. The day after the capture and imprisonment of Urbina, he was assassinated by orders of the secret police DSN (Direction of National Security), efficiently securing Pérez Jiménez's position as the strongman in Venezuela for the next several years.<br />
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==Personal life ==<br />
Chalbaud was married to Lucía Devine,{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} who served as [[List of First Ladies of Venezuela|First Lady of Venezuela]] from 1948 to 1950.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} Cerro Carlos Delgado Chalbaud (1047m), a mountain in Venezuela's Amazonas estate where the headwaters of the [[Orinoco River]] are located, is named after him.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}<br />
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File:Lucía Devine.jpg|Lucía Devine<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Presidents of Venezuela]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/venezuela/perfil_presidente30.html |title=Carlos Delgado Chalbaud |publisher=Government of Venezuela |language=Spanish |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607000654/http://www.gobiernoenlinea.ve/venezuela/perfil_presidente30.html |archivedate=7 June 2011}}<br />
* {{cite web |url=http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/000/000/004/106.html |title=Carlos Delgado Chalbaud |publisher=Mipunto.com |language=Spanish |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306040912/http://www.mipunto.com/venezuelavirtual/000/000/004/106.html |archivedate=6 March 2012}}<br />
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