What is Omar Bongo?
{{Infobox President |image = Omar Bongo 1973.jpg |imagesize = 220px |caption = Bongo in 1973 |office = 2nd [[Heads of state of Gabon|President of Gabon]] |primeminister = [[Léon Mébiame]]<br />[[Casimir Oyé-Mba]]<br />[[Paulin Obame-Nguema]]<br />[[Jean-François Ntoutoume Emane]]<br />[[Jean Eyeghe Ndong]] |vicepresident = [[Léon Mébiame]]<br/>[[Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge]] |term_start = 2 December 1967 |term_end = 8 June 2009 |predecessor = [[Léon M'ba]] |successor = [[Rose Francine Rogombé]] |office2 = 2nd [[Vice-President of Gabon]] |president2 = [[Léon M'ba]] |term_start2 = 12 November 1966 |term_end2 = 2 December 1967 |predecessor2 = [[Paul-Marie Yembit]] |successor2 = [[Léon Mébiame]] |birth_name = Albert-Bernard Bongo |birth_date = {{birth date|1935|12|30|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Lewai]], [[French Equatorial Africa]] <small>(now [[Bongoville]], [[Gabon]])</small> |death_date = {{death date and age|2009|06|08|1935|12|30|df=y}} |death_place = [[Barcelona]], [[Spain]] |party = [[Gabonese Democratic Party|Democratic Party]] |spouse = Louise Mouyabi Moukala <small>(1957–1959)</small><br />[[Patience Dabany]] <small>(1959–1987)</small><ref>{{cite book| last = Clark| first = John F| title = Political Reform In Francophone Africa| year = 1996| publisher = Westview Press| isbn = 978-0-8133-2786-0| page = 147 | chapter = Gabon: Limited Reform and Regime Survival}}</ref><br />[[Edith Lucie Bongo]] <small>(1989–2009)</small> |children = 30+ (by various partners), including [[Ali Bongo Ondimba]] |allegiance = {{flag|France}} |branch = [[French Air Force]] |serviceyears = |rank = Captain }} '''El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba''' (born '''Albert-Bernard Bongo'''; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a [[Gabon]]ese politician who was [[Heads of state of Gabon|President of Gabon]] for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. He was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President [[Léon M'ba]] in the 1960s, bef