Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa (September 11, 1908, Leon, Nicaragua – December 16, 1997

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) was the

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to the

from 1943 until July 19, 1979, when President

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was forced into exile following the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a result of his record-breaking service as ambassador in

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, he was appointed Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, a position he held from January 1958 to July 1979. He was the son of J. Ramón Sevilla Castellón and wife Dolores Sacasa Sacasa, first-cousin of Juan Bautista Sacasa Sacasa and Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa, 63rd and 69th presidents of Nicaragua respectively. Dolores was the daughter of Antioco Sacasa Sarria, brother of Roberto Sacasa Sarria, 44th and 46th

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. Also, her great-uncle was Vicente Cuadra Lugo, 38th President of Nicaragua. Known as the "world's most decorated ambassador", he was a

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and president of the

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from 1936 to 1937. He also served as Ambassador to the U.S. for 36 years under eight American Presidents and eleven Secretaries of State, a singularly unique and unprecedented achievement, unmatched to this day. In 1943, Sevilla-Sacasa married Lillian Somoza Debayle, born in

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, on May 3, 1921, the daughter of

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, the 65th and 69th President of Nicaragua, and Salvadora Debayle Sacasa, and had nine children.

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