What is Rómulo Gallegos?
{{Infobox president | name = Rómulo Gallegos | image = Rómulo Gallegos 1940s.jpg | caption = Gallegos c. 1947-48 | order = [[President of Venezuela]] | term_start = 17 February 1948 | term_end = 24 November 1948 | predecessor = [[Rómulo Betancourt]] | successor = [[Carlos Delgado Chalbaud]] | birth_name = Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1884|8|2}} |birth_place = [[Caracas, Venezuela]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1969|4|5|1884|8|2}} |death_place = [[Caracas, Venezuela]] |party = [[Acción Democrática]] |signature = Firma de Rómulo Gallegos.svg |spouse = Teotiste Arocha Egui (1888–1950) |}} '''Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire''' (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-10-16|title=68 años de las primeras elecciones libres en Venezuela – El Aragüeño|url=http://elaragueno.com.ve/region/68-anos-de-las-primeras-elecciones-libres-en-venezuela/|access-date=2020-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181016032723/http://elaragueno.com.ve/region/68-anos-de-las-primeras-elecciones-libres-en-venezuela/|archive-date=16 October 2018}}</ref> He was removed from power by military officers in the [[1948 Venezuelan coup]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lott|first=Leo B.|date=1956|title=Executive Power in Venezuela|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003055400067484/type/journal_article|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=50|issue=2|pages=422–441|doi=10.2307/1951677|jstor=1951677 |s2cid=143931136 |issn=0003-0554}}</ref> Rómulo Gallegos is considered the most relevant Venezuelan novelist of the 20th century, and a prominent figure in Latin American literature. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Presidents of Venezuela}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gallegos, Romulo}} [[Category:1884 births]] [[Category:1969 deaths]] [[Category:Presidents of Venezuela]] {{