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Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) is pleased to present this historical database of the heads of state of the five Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, plus the heads of state of the defunct Central American Federation. At the moment the database is limited to the names of all Central American heads of state, along with the following information about each of them:
| Post |
Paternal last name |
Maternal last name |
First name |
| Month of inauguration |
Day of inauguration |
Year of inauguration |
Month of departure from office |
| Day of departure from office |
Year of departure from office |
Place of birth |
Country of birth |
| Month of birth |
Day of birth |
Year of birth |
Place of death |
| Country of death |
Month of death |
Day of death |
Year of death |
| Party affiliation |
Profession |
In those cases in which the relevant information could not be identified, the fields have been left blank.
Old Dominion hopes to expand the database to include data on cabinet members, constitutions and other aspects of Central American political history.
Corrections and suggestions for improving this tool would be welcomed by the principal developer of the database, Robert H. Holden, associate professor of Latin American history, Old Dominion University.
Prof. Holden would like to thank the following individuals for their contributions to the creation of this database: M'hammed Abdous, Matthew Hall, Wu He, Dexter Marcelino, Sarah Burgess, Karen Johnson, and the members of his Central American and Caribbean history class. The creation of this database was made possible by the generous financial support of the University's Center for Learning Technologies.
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