Abraham Williams Calderón (born 1894, died in 1986) was a Honduran politician. He was known as

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during the administration of

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and president of the

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, and presidential candidate of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement in the 1954 elections. Williams Calderón was born on 16 March 1894, in Choluteca. He studied at the

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in 1919, and

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in Schenectady, New York in 1921, from which he obtained his engineering degree. After returning to Honduras, he joined

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, and was later appointed as governor of Choluteca Department between 1924 during the administration of Miguel Paz Barahona. He also held other political offices during Paz Barahona administration. In 1929 he was elected deputy in the

and on 14 December 1932 he was elected President of the National Congress. In the 1932 presidential elections, Williams Abraham was elected

in the elections won by the nationalist candidate general Tiburcio Carias Andino. He took office on 1 February 1933. In February 1933, he was also appointed as minister of interior and justice. Abraham Williams Calderón was

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from 1933 to 1949, together with the formula (Carias-Williams) which stayed in power without elections in the form of a dictatorship with the backing of the United States of America. After 1949, Williams Calderón dissented from

, and joined

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. He was the presidential candidate of the party in the 1954 elections. In 1956, Williams Calderón joined the ticket of

Julio Lozano Díaz Julio Lozano Díaz (27 March 1885 – 20 August 1957), was first Vice President of Honduras (1949–1954) and then President of Honduras, from 5 December 1954 until 21 October 1956. He was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and worked as an accounta ...

as his vice-presidential candidate. The coup that took place in October 1956 ousted Lozano Díaz and prevented the swearing-in of Williams Calderón as vice president once again. In 1957, during the presidency of

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, Williams Calderón participated in the National Congress as a deputy for the department of Choluteca. He no longer run for any political office, and retired. He died on 24 March 1986. He had three sons, including Vicente Williams Agasse.

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