Mohammed Naguib (19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984) was President of Egypt from 18 June 1953 to 14 November 1954, preceding Gamal Abdel Nasser. Along with Nasser, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which toppled the Turkish rulers of Egypt and Sudan.
Biography[]
Mohammed Naguib was born in Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1901, and he joined the Egyptian Army in 1921, gradually rising to the rank of brigade commander during the war against the newly created state of Israel from 1948 to 1949. A man of integrity and honesty, he was chosen as nominal leader of the 1952 coup in which King Farouk I of Egypt was deposed. As premier and then President, his plans to establish a multi-party democracy enjoyed considerable popular support. However, his political rival, Gamal Abdel Nasser, increased his hold on the army and deposed him in 1954, putting him under house arrest. He was released under Anwar Sadat in 1971, and he died in Cairo in 1984.