Eleazar López Contreras

President of Venezuela

5 May 1883 Queniquea, Táchira, Venezuela

2 January 1973(1973-01-02) (89) Caracas, Venezuela

18 December 1935 – 5 May 1941

José Eleazar López Contreras (5 May 1883 – 2 January 1973) was President of Venezuela between 1935 and 1941. He was an army general and one of Juan Vicente Gómez's collaborators, serving as his War Minister from 1931. In 1939, López Contreras accepted on behalf of Venezuela the ships Koenigstein and Caribia which had fled with Jews from Germany.