The Reluctant President The Memoirs of the Hon. Clifford Dupont, GCLM, ID

The Reluctant President The Memoirs of the Hon. Clifford Dupont, GCLM, ID   

Author: Clifford Du Pont     

Publisher: Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, Rhodesia   

Edition: First 1978. Volume 2 of the Books of Rhodesia Men of Our Time Series 

ISBN: 0 86920 183 2 

Language: English

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket 

Pages: 246. Print with images 

Additional Information

Clifford Walter Dupont GCLM ID (6 December 1905 28 June 1978) was a British-born Rhodesian politician who served in the internationally unrecognised positions of officer administrating the government (from 1965 until 1970) and president (from 1970 to 1975). Born in London and qualifying as a solicitor, Dupont served during the Second World War as an officer of the British Royal Artillery in North Africa before first visiting Southern Rhodesia in 1947. He returned a year later, started a ranch and emigrated full-time during the early 1950s, by which time the country had become a territory of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

When Rhodesia's government under Ian Smith issued the Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain on 11 November 1965, Dupont, as Deputy Prime Minister, was the second to sign. Smith attempted to have Dupont named as Governor-General in place of the British-appointed Governor, Humphrey Gibbs, but failing this instead made him Officer Administering the Government.[1] He held this post until 1970, when he became President following the declaration of a republic. After suffering from ill health during this last appointment, he retired in 1976 and died in 1978.

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