Politicians who led diffrent countries

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Obviously I'm not talking about monarchs that ruled over more than our country due to personal unions (quite common in earlier ages, with current example being Elizabeth II, ruling over the Commonwealth realms) or those like President of the French Republic, who's ex officio the Co-Prince of Andorra.


Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski: de facto Prime Minister of the Imperial Russia (1804-1806) and President of the National Government of the Congress Poland during the November Uprising (1830-1831)

Simon Bolivar: President of Colombia (1819-1830), Peru (1824-1826) and Bolivia (1825-1826)

Antonio José de Sucre: President of Bolivia (1826-1828) and Peru (1823)

Vaclav Havel: President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and Czech Republic (1993-2003)

Stjepan Mesić President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and and President of Croatia (2000-2010)

Robert Kocharyan: President of Nagorno-Karabakh, largely unrecognized breakaway state (1994-1997), and President of Armenia (1998-2008)


That's all I can think of without browsing the wiki.

[Cassius]

I'm not sure if this really counts, but Ian Smith could arguably be said to have governed two countries i.e. the Dominion of Southern Rhodesia and then the unrecognized Republic of Rhodesia.

[Blue3]

Didn't a couple former U.S. presidents become members of the Confederate Senate? Not sure if that counts.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Didn't a couple former U.S. presidents become members of the Confederate Senate? Not sure if that counts.

Tyler was elected but died before he could serve and I think some others might have too.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Bernadotte could technically be considered such.  He was the Prince of Ponte Corvo and had to give that up when he became the Crown Prince of Sweden.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Christ, people...

I'm not sure if this really counts, but Ian Smith could arguably be said to have governed two countries i.e. the Dominion of Southern Rhodesia and then the unrecognized Republic of Rhodesia.

Still the same Rhodesia. I was addressing diffrent countries, not diffrent systems.

You can say Wojciech Jaruzelski led two "different" countries, having been President of the People's Republic of Poland and then, after constitutional changes, President of the Republic of Poland. But it's still the same country.

Didn't a couple former U.S. presidents become members of the Confederate Senate? Not sure if that counts.

The hell, man?

The topic is "led diffrent countries", not "hold offices in diffrent countries".

Had Tyler became President of the Confederate States, that would be a case.

Bernadotte could technically be considered such.  He was the Prince of Ponte Corvo and had to give that up when he became the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Well, I wanted to explicitly exclude monarchs, but mentioned only personal union.

[Blue3]

Your condescending attitude isn't helping.

[Sir John Johns]

Francisco Morazán: supreme head of Honduras (1827-1829, 1829-1830), president of Central America (1835-1839), supreme head of El Salvador (1839-1840), provisional head of Costa Rica (1842)

Andrés de Santa Cruz: president of Peru (1826-1827), of Bolivia (1829-1839), protector of the Peru-Bolivia Confederacy (1836-1839)

Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust: prime minister of Saxe (1858-1866), then of Austria-Hungary (1867-1871)

Chlodwig von Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst: prime minister of Bavaria (1866-1870), prime minister of Prussia (1894-1900), chancellor of Germany (1894-1900)

Hans Daniel Hassenpflug: reactionary interior minister in Hessen (1832-1837), head of the government of the principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1838-1839), civil governor of Luxemburg for the king of the Netherlands (1839-1840), prime minister of Hessen (1850-1855)

Eleftherios Venizelos: prime minister of the Greek-controled Cretan State (1910), prime minister of Greece (1910-1915, 1915, 1917-1920, 1924, 1928-1932, 1932, 1933)

Adriaan Florensz co-regent of Spain for Charles V (1520-1522) then pope under the name of Adrian VI (1522-1523)

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Great list, Sir John Johns.

William Walker: President of short-lived, unrecognized Republics of Lower California (1853-1854) and Sonora (1854), then President of Nicaragua (1856-1857)

[windjammer]

Maybe Napoleon Bonaparte?
I explain, when he was exiled the first time, he didn't led France and other countries anymore, but he led Elba.

[NewYorkExpress]

Maybe Napoleon Bonaparte?
I explain, when he was exiled the first time, he didn't led France and other countries anymore, but he led Elba.

Elba was a country?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Maybe Napoleon Bonaparte?
I explain, when he was exiled the first time, he didn't led France and other countries anymore, but he led Elba.

Elba was a country?

Napoleon wasn't just exiled to there, but was sovereign of the island.  Napoleon even got to design Elba's new flag:

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Maybe Napoleon Bonaparte?
I explain, when he was exiled the first time, he didn't led France and other countries anymore, but he led Elba.

Elba was a country?

Napoleon wasn't just exiled to there, but was sovereign of the island.  Napoleon even got to design Elba's new flag:

One of my favorite trivias

[Hatman 🍁]

There were some past governors general of Canada that were governors general of other countries as well, but I'm not sure that counts, and I don't want to list them for fear Kalwejt will yell at me

[Randy Bobandy]

William Taft, governor-general of the Philippines and later POTUS?

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

Enver Pasha led both the Ottoman Empire and was later the head of the Basmachi revolt against the Soviets.

[SPC]

William Taft, governor-general of the Philippines and later POTUS?

The Philippines was a US posession at the time, so no more remarkable than any state Governor later becoming POTUS.

[The Mikado]

Enver Pasha led both the Ottoman Empire and was later the head of the Basmachi revolt against the Soviets.

I'd dispute that Enver was the head of the Ottoman government (Talaat Pasha fits the bill better), but I'll give credit for that one.

Faisal I, briefly king of Syria (1920) and then king of Iraq (1921-33).

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

There were some past governors general of Canada that were governors general of other countries as well, but I'm not sure that counts, and I don't want to list them for fear Kalwejt will yell at me

That's a very good example, considering Dominions were no longer colonies and Governors became pretty much effective head of states

[politicus]

King Christian 8. of Denmark (1839-1848) was King of Norway in 1814 during the Norwegians rebellion against their new Swedish masters.

EDIT: Since Mikado already ignored your "no royals" ban.