List of state leaders in 1939
1938 state leaders -
Events of 1939 -
1940 state leaders -
State leaders by year\n----\n
\nSee also:\n*List of religious leaders in 1940\n*List of international organization leaders in 1940\n
Africa
\n* Ethiopia - Vittorio Emanuele III, Emperor of Ethiopia (1936-1941)\n* South Africa - \n** George VI, King of South Africa (1936-1952)\n** Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of South Africa (1937-1943)\n** Prime Minister\n**# Barry Hertzog, Prime Minister of South Africa (1924-5 September 1939)\n**# Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (5 September 1939 - 1948)\n* Zanzibar - Khalifah ibn Harub, Sultan of Zanzibar (1911-1960)
Asia
\n* Afghanistan \n** Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)\n** Sardar Mohammed Hashim Shah, Prime Minister of Afghanistan (1933-1946)\n* China\n**Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government (1931-1943)\n**Premier\n**#H.H. Kung, President of the Executive Yuan (1938-1939)\n**#Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Executive Yuan (1939-1945)\n* India - \n** George VI, Emperor of India (1936-1947)\n** The Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India (1936-1943)\n* Japan - \n** Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-1989)\n** Prime Minister\n**# Konoe Fumimaro, Prime Minister of Japan (1937 - 4 January 1939\n**# Hiranuma Kiichiro, Prime Minister of Japan (4 January - 29 August 1939)\n**# Abe Nobuyuki, Prime Minister of Japan (29 August 1939 - 1940)\n* Thailand (Siam to 23 June) - \n** Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand (1935-1946)\n** Plaek Pibulsongkram, Prime Minister of Thailand (1938-1944)\n* Vietnam - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (1925-1945)
Australia and Oceania
\n* Australia \n** George VI, King of Australia (1936-1952)\n** Lord Gowrie, Governor-General of Australia, (1936-1945)\n** Prime Minister of Australia\n**# Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (1932-1939)\n**# Sir Earle Page, Prime Minister of Australia (1939)\n**# Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (1939-1941)\n* New Zealand - \n** George VI, King of New Zealand (1936-1952)\n** The Viscount Galway, Governor-General of New Zealand (1935-1941)\n** Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935-1940)
Europe
\n* Albania - \n** Head of State -\n**# Zog I, King of Albania (1928- 8 April 1939)\n**# Xhafer Ypi, Chairman of the Provisional Administration Committee (9 April - 12 April 1939)\n**# Shefqet Bej Vërlaci, Acting Head of State (12 April - 16 April 1939)\n**# Victor Emmanuel III, King of Albania (16 April 1939-1943)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Koço Kota, Prime Minister of Albania (1936-8 April 1939)\n**# Shefqet Bej Vërlaci, Prime Minister of Albania (12 April 1939 - 1941)\n* Belgium - \n**Monarch - Leopold III, King of the Belgians (1934-1951)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (1938-20 February 1939)\n**# Hubert Pierlot, Prime Minister of Belgium (22 February 1939-1945)\n* Bohemia and Moravia - \n**Reichs Protector - Konstantin von Neurath, Reichs Protector of Bohemia and Moravia(21 March 1939-1941)\n**State President - Emil Hácha, State President of Bohemia and Moravia (16 March 1939-1945)\n** Prime Minister -\n**# Rudolf Beran, Prime Minister of Bohemia and Moravia (16 March - 27 April 1939)\n**# Alois Eliás, Prime Minister of Bohemia and Moravia (27 Apri 1939 - 1941)\n* Bulgaria - \n**Monarch - Boris III, King of the Bulgarians (1918-1943)\n**Prime Minister - Georgi Kiossievanov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1935-1940)\n* Czechoslovakia - \n**President - Emil Hácha, President of Czechoslovakia (1938 - 15 March 1939)\n**Prime Minister - Rudolf Beran, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1938 - 15 March 1939)\n** divided into Bohemia-Moravia and Slovakia), 15 March 1939\n* Denmark - \n**Monarch - Christian X, King of Denmark (1912-1947)\n**Prime Minister - Thorvald Stauning, Prime Minister of Denmark (1929-1942)\n* Éire (Ireland) -\n**Monarch - George VI, King of Ireland (1936-1949)\n**President - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (1938-1945)\n**Prime Minister - Eamon de Valera, Taoiseach (1937-1948)\n* Estonia - \n**President - Konstantin Päts, President of Estonia (1938-1940, Head of State, 1934-1938)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Kaarel Eenpalu, Prime Minister of Estonia (1938 - 12 October 1939)\n**# Jüri Uluots, Prime Minister of Estonia (12 October 1939 - 1940)\n* Finland - \n**President - Kyösti Kallio, President of Finland (1937-1940)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Aimo Kaarlo Cajander, Prime Minister of Finland (1937 - 1 December 1939)\n**# Risto Heikki Ryti, Prime Minister of Finland (1 December 1939 - 1940)\n* France - \n**President - Albert Lebrun, President of France (1932-1940)\n**Prime Minister - Édouard Daladier, President of the Council (1938-1940)\n* Germany - \n**Head of State - Adolf Hitler, Führer (1934-1945)\n**Chancellor - Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany (1933-1945)\n* Greece - \n**Monarch - George II, King of the Hellenes (1935-1947)\n**Prime Minister - Ioannis Metaxas, Prime Minister of Greece (1936-1941)\n* Hungary - \n**Regent - Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary (1920-1944)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Béla Imrédy, Minister-President of Hungary (1938 - 16 February 1939)\n**# Pál Teleki, Minister-President of Hungary (16 February 1939 - 1941)\n* Italy - \n**Monarch - Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy (1900-1946)\n**Prime Minister - Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy (1922-1943)\n* Latvia - \n**President - Karlis Ulmanis, President of Latvia (1936-1940)\n**Prime Minister - Karlis Ulmanis, Prime Minister of Latvia (1934-1940)\n* Liechtenstein -\n**Monarch - Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)\n**Head of Government - Franz Josef Hoop, Head of Government of Liechtenstein (1928-1945)\n* Lithuania - \n**President - Antanas Smetona, President of Lithuania (1926-1940)\n**Prime Minister\n**# Vladas Mironas, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1938 - 28 March 1939)\n**# Jonas Cernius, Prime Minister of Lithuania (28 March - 21 November 1939)\n**# Antanas Merkys, Prime Minister of Lithuania (21 November 1939 - 1940)\n* Luxembourg -\n**Monarch - Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-1964)\n**Prime Minister - Pierre Dupong, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (1937-1953)\n* Monaco - Louis II, Prince of Monaco (1922-1949)\n* Netherlands - \n**Monarch - Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Hendrikus Colijn, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1933 - 10 August 1939)\n**# Dirk Jan de Geer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (10 August 1939 - 1940)\n* Norway - \n**Monarch - Haakon VII, King of Norway (1905-1957\n**Prime Minister - Johan Nygaardsvold, Prime Minister of Norway (1935-1945)\n* Poland -\n**President - \n**# Ignacy Moscicki, President of Poland (1926-30 September 1939)\n**# Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, President of the Polish Government-in-Exile (30 September 1939-1947)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, Prime Minister of Poland (1936 - 30 September 1939)\n**# Wladyslaw Sikorski, Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile (30 September 1939 - 1943)\n* Portugal - \n**President - António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona, President of Portugal (1926-1951)\n**Prime Minister - António de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal (1928-1968)\n* Romania - \n**Monarch - Carol II, King of Romania (1930-1940)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Miron Cristea, Prime Minister of Romania (1938 - 6 March 1939)\n**# Armand Calinescu, Prime Minister of Romania (7 March - 21 September 1939)\n**# Gheorghe Argesanu, Prime Minister of Romania (21 September - 28 September 1939)\n**# Constantin Argetoianu, Prime Minister of Romania (28 September - 24 November 1939)\n**# Gheorghe Tatarescu, Prime Minister of Romania (24 November 1939 - 1940)\n* Slovakia - \n**President - Jozef Tiso, President of Slovakia (14 March 1939 - 1945\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Jozef Tiso, Prime Minister of Slovakia (14 March - 29 October 1939)\n**# Vojtech Tuka, Prime Minister of Slovakia (29 October 1939 - 1944)\n* Spain - \n**Republican Spain -\n***Head of State -\n***# Manuel Azaña, President of Spain (1936- 1 March 1939)\n***# Diego Martínez Barrio, Interim President of Spain (1 March - 4 March 1939)\n***# Segismundo Casado López, Interim President of the National Council of Defense (4 March - 13 March 1939)\n***# José Miaja Menant, President of the National Council of Defense (13 March - 25 March 1939)\n*** Prime Minister - Juan Negrín, Prime Minister of Spain Republican (1937 - 31 March 1939)\n**Nationalist Spain -\n*** Head of State - Francisco Franco, Head of State (1936-1975)\n*** Prime Minister - Francisco Franco, Prime Minister of Spain (1938 - 1973)\n* Sweden - \n**Monarch - Gustav V, King of Sweden (1907-1950)\n**Prime Minister - Per Albin Hansson, Prime Minister of Sweden (1936-1946)\n* Switzerland\n**Swiss Federal Council\n***Giuseppe Motta, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Rudolf Minger, Johannes Baumann, Philipp Etter (President of Confederation), Hermann Obrecht, Ernst Wetter\n* Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -\n**Communist Party Leader - Joseph Stalin, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953)\n**Head of State - Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1938-1946)\n**Premier - Vyacheslav Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Comissars (1930-1941)\n* United Kingdom -\n**Monarch - George VI, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936-1952)\n**Prime Minister - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1937-1940)\n* Yugoslavia - \n**Monarch - Peter II, King of Yugoslavia (1934-1945)\n**Regent - Prince Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia (1934-1941)\n**Prime Minister -\n**# Milan Stojadinović, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1935-4 February 1939)\n**# Dragiša Cvetković, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (5 February 1939-1941)\n*Vatican City\n** Pope - \n**# Pius XI, Bishop of Rome (1929-1939)\n**# Pius XII, Bishop of Rome (1939-1958)\n** Secretary of State - \n**# Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Cardinal Secretary of State (1930-1939)\n**# Luigi Cardinal Maglione, Cardinal Secretary of State (1939-1944)
Middle East
\n* Egypt - \n** Farouk I, King of Egypt (1936-1952)\n** Prime Minister\n**# Muhammad Mahmoud Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (1937 - 18 August 1939)\n**# Ali Mahir Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt (18 August 1939 - 1940)\n* Iran - \n** Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (1925-1941)\n** Prime Minister\n**# Mahmud Jam, Prime Minister of Iran (1935 - 26 October 1939)\n**# Ahmad Matin-Daftari, Prime Minister of Iran (26 October 1939 - 1940)\n* Iraq -\n** King\n**# Ghazi I, King of Iraq (1933 - 4 April 1939)\n**# Faisal II, King of Iraq (4 April 1939 -1958)\n** Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (4 April 1939 - 1941)\n** Nuri Pasha as-Said, Prime Minister of Iraq (1938-1940)\n* Muscat - Said Bin Taimur, Sultan of Oman (1932-1970)\n* Saudi Arabia - Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1932-1953)\n* Turkey - \n** Ismet Inönü, President of Turkey (1938-1950)\n** Prime Minister\n**# Mahmud Celal Bayar, Prime Minister of Turkey (1937 - 25 January 1939)\n**# Refik Ibrahim Saydam, Prime Minister of Turkey (25 January 1939 - 1942)
North America and the Caribbean
\n* Canada - \n** George VI, King of Canada (1936-1952)\n** The Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-1940)\n** William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (1935-1948)\n* Costa Rica - León Cortés Castro, President of Costa Rica (1936-1940)\n* Cuba - Federico Laredo Brú, President of Cuba (1936-1940)\n* Dominican Republic - Jacinto Bienvenido Peynado, President of the Dominican Republic (1938-1940)\n* El Salvador - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, President of El Salvador (1935-1944)\n* Guatemala - Jorge Ubico, President of Guatemala (1931-1944)\n* Haiti - Sténio Vincent, President of Haiti (1930-1941)\n* Honduras - Tiburcio Carías Andino, President of Honduras (1933-1949)\n* Mexico - Lázaro Cárdenas, President of Mexico (1934-1940)\n* Nicaragua - Anastasio Somoza García, President of Nicaragua (1937-1947)\n* Panama - \n*# Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, President of Panama (1936-1939)\n*# Ezequiel Fernández Jaén, Acting President of Panama (1939)\n*# Augusto Samuel Boyd, Acting President of Panama (1939-1940)\n* United States - Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States (1933-1945)
South America
\n* Argentina - Roberto Ortiz, President of Argentina (1938-1942)\n* Bolivia\n*# Germán Busch, President of Bolivia (1937-1939\n*# Carlos Quintanilla, Provisional President of Bolivia (1939-1940)\n* Brazil - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-1945)\n* Chile - Pedro Aguirre Cerda, President of Chile (1938-1941)\n* Colombia - Eduardo Santos Montejo, President of Colombia (1938-1942)\n* Ecuador - \n*# Aurelio Mosquera Narváez, President of Ecuador (1938-1939)\n*# Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Acting President of Ecuador (1939)\n*# Andrés Córdova Nieto, Acting President of Ecuador (1939-1940)\n* Paraguay -\n*# Félix Paiva, President of Paraguay (1937-1939)\n*# José Félix Estigarribia, President of Paraguay (1939-1940)\n* Peru - \n*# Óscar Raymundo Benavides Larrea, President of Peru (1933-1939\n*# Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, President of Peru (1939-1945)\n* Uruguay - Alfredo Baldomir, President of Uruguay (1938-1943)\n* Venezuela - Eleazar López Contreras, President of Venezuela (1936-1941)
Category:Lists of state leaders by year
