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Clifford Dupont

1905–1978 · 20th century

Clifford Dupont was a British-born Rhodesian politician and a minister in Ian Smith's government at the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. Smith appointed him Officer Administering the Government in place of the British governor, and when Rhodesia declared itself a republic in 1970 he became its first president, serving until 1975.

Clifford Dupont
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Clifford Dupont. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/clifford-dupont
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