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List of Heads of State of Benin

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Term	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Dahomey	Autonomous
4 December 1958 to 1 August 1960	René Tirant, High Commissioner
1 August 1960 to 31 December 1960	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Head of State	RDD
Republic of Dahomey	Independent
31 December 1960 to 27 October 1963	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President	RDD	1st Term
27 October 1963 to 28 October 1963	Provisional Government:-
	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Head of Provisional Government	RDD
	Sourou Migan Apithy	PRD
	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin	UDD
28 October 1963 to 25 January 1964	Christophe Soglo, Head of Provisional Government	Mil	1st Term
25 January 1964 to 27 November 1965	Sourou Migan Apithy, President	PD
27 November 1965 to 29 November 1965	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin, acting President	PD	1st Term
29 November 1965 to 22 December 1965	Tahirou Congacou, acting President	PD
22 December 1965 to 19 December 1967	Christophe Soglo, President	Mil	2nd Term
19 December 1967 to 20 December 1967	Jean-Baptiste Hachème, Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee	Mil
20 December 1967 to 21 December 1967	Iropa Maurice Kouandété, Head of State	Mil	1st Term
21 December 1967 to 17 July 1968	Alphonse Amadou Alley, Head of State	Mil
17 July 1968 to 10 December 1969	Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou, President
10 December 1969 to 13 December 1969	Iropa Maurice Kouandété, Chief-of-Staff of the Army	Mil	2nd Term
13 December 1969 to 7 May 1970	Paul-Émile de Souza, Chairman of the Directory	Mil
7 May 1970 to 7 May 1972	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Chairman of the Presidential Council	RDD	2nd Term
7 May 1972 to 26 October 1972	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin, Chairman of the Presidential Council	PD	2nd Term
26 October 1972 to 30 November 1975	Mathieu Kérékou, President	Mil/PRPB	1st Term
People’s Republic of Benin
30 November 1975 to 1 March 1990	Mathieu Kérékou, President	Mil/PRPB	1st Term (contd.)
Republic of Benin
1 March 1990 to 4 April 1991	Mathieu Kérékou, President	PRB	1st Term (contd.)
4 April 1991 to 4 April 1996	Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, President	PRB
4 April 1996 to present	Mathieu Kérékou, President	FARD	2nd Term

Affiliations:-

FARD = Front d'Action pour le Rénouveau et le Développement (Action for Renewal and Development) – centrist
PD = Parti Démocratique (Democratic Party, merger of PRD and UDD 1964)
PRB = Parti de la Renaissance du Bénin (Party for the Rebirth of Benin) – centrist
UTRD = Union pour le Triomphe du Renouvellement Démocratique (Union for the Triumph of the Democratic Renewal)
PRD = Parti du Rénouveau Démocratique (Democratic Renewal Party)
PRPB = Parti du Revolutionare Popular du Benin (Popular Revolutionary Party of Benin only legal party 1979-1990) - communist
RDD = Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé (Dahomey Democratic Rally)
UDD = Union Démocratique du Dahomé (Dahomey Democratic Union)
Mil = Military

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