Luis anastasio somoza debayle biography

President of Nicaragua from 1956 to 1963

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Somoza and the second or maternal family name is Debayle.

Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle (18 November 1922 – 13 April 1967) was the 50th President of Nicaragua from 1957 until his resignation in 1963.^[1] He succeeded to the presidency following the death of his father, Anastasio Somoza García.

The Somoza family was the most powerful family in the country at that time.

Somoza Debayle was born in León on 18 November 1922. In 1936 at the age of 14, he and his younger brother Anastasio attended Saint Leo College Prep near Tampa, before transferring to La Salle Military Academy on Long Island.^[2] Luis was then educated at Louisiana State University, where he was a member of Fi Sigma Alfa Hispanic fraternity.^[3] He married Costa Rican Isabel Urcuyo on 9 June 1947, and they had seven children together.^[4][5