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Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 – 10 November 2003) was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's
On April 18, 1980, the governments in Harare and Washington, D.C. established diplomatic relations. The President of Zimbabwe at the time was Canaan Banana, and the President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
First president to appoint a Native American as a Cabinet secretary (Deb Haaland, as Secretary of the Interior). [571] [572] [573] First president to appoint an African American as United States Secretary of Defense (Lloyd Austin). [574] First president to appoint a Latino American as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (Xavier ...
This article lists the heads of state of Zimbabwe from the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Rhodesia in 1965 to the present day. From 1965 to 1970 the head of state under the UDI was the Monarch in person of Elizabeth II , who simultaneously reigned as the Monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms .
The length of a full four-year term of office for a president of the United States usually amounts to 1,461 days (three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days). The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the first day (day zero).
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
Under the new constitution, Zimbabwe's presidency was a ceremonial role with no governmental power; the first President was Canaan Banana. [214] Mugabe had previously offered the position to Nkomo, who had turned it down in favour of becoming Minister of Home Affairs. [215]
A resident Embassy was established in Salisbury on Zimbabwean Independence Day, April 18, 1980. The first U.S. Ambassador arrived and presented his credentials in June 1980. US President Jimmy Carter met with Zimbabwean Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in August 1980. [6]