World leaders who served VERY short terms

[@thebiggamer22]

In Argentina, we are experts in this topic 5 presidents in less than a week :)

[@houndoom3619]

Las Malvinas son Argentinas

[@andresjurado4254]

MrLolmaster101 Las Malvinas son Argentinas. (Y no soy argentino, ni vivo en Argentina).

[@thebiggamer22]

The argument really started about the UK stealing resources from our territorial waters, fish, oil, etc. the isands are yours but the waters they reside on belong to Argentina acoording to the several signed treaties about territory and territorial waters. The UK is ilegaly ocuping Argentina's waters not territory. (Exuse the bad spelling, Am not a native speaker nor an expert in the languaje)

[@thebiggamer22]

@@nahuelgioia4177 wanker in Argentinian spanish would be something like: pajero. Leaving that fact alone, you're right

[@thebiggamer22]

@no. They were spanish and french, later, the spanish kicked out the french for some reason and claimed the whole isands.

[@SamAronow]

Correction! Dönitz succeeded Hitler directly as President, not Chancellor (Hitler was both). Goebbels was succeeded as acting Chancellor by Krosigk.

[@craiganheliger5575]

yup donitz and goebells succeeding hitler in different roles, head of state and head of government, at this time in world history head of state would have been considered the higher position, and thats why donitz surrendered. Head of state is usually head of the military as well as foreign affairs and policy. Head of government runs the operations of the country.

[@SamAronow]

Depends on the country. In my native country, the President is both. In my adoptive country, the President has no policy role at all.

[@johnhaynes6761]

Sam Aronow Don’t forget Goebbels killed himself

[@scrambled5948]

doughnuts!

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

Craig Anheliger Wait, I thought the position of president was left symbolically empty after that veteran general died, leaving Hitler in power as chancellor and party leader. But I never studied the exact legal basis for Hitler's last 10 years in power.

[@PedroHenriquedoNascimento]

The Brazilian presidencial situation in November 1955 was a mess. President Getúlio Vargas had committed suicide in 1954. Vice-President João Café Filho assumed office, but had a heart attack on November 8th, 1955. The Speaker of the House Carlos Luz was sworn in as President, but then it was found that he was part of a plot for a military coup. Luz was impeached after only 3 days in power and the fourth in the line of succession, the President of the Senate Nereu Ramos, assumed office on November 11th, 1955. Café Filho left the hospital on November 21st, 1955, ready to go back to work as President. Out of fear he was also involved in the plot, the democratic segments of the military asked for Café Filho's loyalty. Just back from the hospital and with no idea of what they were referring to (his medical team decided to not allow him to receive any political news for fear he would have another heart attack), he refused to do so. As a response, the military put Café Filho under house arrest on that same day. He sent a letter to the Supreme Court, asking for his Habeas Corpus and for the reestablishment of his presidency. He was impeached on the early hours of November 22nd, 1955, and Ramos remained president for the remaining 2 months of Vargas' term. Turns out the question "Who was the President of Brazil in November 21st, 1955?" is a philosophical one. One legal expert of the time said that, if he were a Supreme Court Justice, he would reply to Café Filho's request with the shortest legal argument of all time: "I deny it because you request it", meaning no leader should request for his/her authority from anyone else. From a point of view based solely on the law, Café Filho was the President during the few hours between getting out of the hospital and being impeached, most of which he was under house arrest.

[@hlynnkeith9334]

Compared to recent Brazilian politics, this makes sense.

[@fjusposting2103]

I think he was in Reality vice-speaker

[@MatheusRodrigues-jk7ph]

Eu ia citar esse exemplo!! KKKK

[@DarthMalgusSith_Lord]

man you should have kept your emperor, brazil is pretty fucked up right now and the president still doesn't have the ability to united the people of brazil.

[@prussiankingdom7840]

I just took my time writing this whole thing also because I didn't saw yours...

[@antonydi]

Here in Australia, 6 prime ministers in 5 years. We vote every 3 years. Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison.

[@jecos1966]

Actually it a maximum of 3 years they can call a early election and the upper house it every 6 year

[@lorddashdonalddappington2653]

That's 5 prime ministers my dude.

[@antonydi]

@@lorddashdonalddappington2653 Kevin Rudd served 2 times, my guy.

[@lorddashdonalddappington2653]

@@antonydi Yes... he did. So Rudd, Gillard, Abbot, Turnbull and Morrison, 5 prime ministers in 5 years. You only get 6 if you act like there were two different Kevid Rudds who were both prime minister.

[@jamez1237]

JJ is the highlight to my Saturday morning

[@ITristan]

Jamez123 *evening

[@mrcolz9373]

same it's actually Saturday here lmao

[@javierrivera9824]

Especially when he try to say Spanish names 😂

[@wesleyh.2397]

You've probably heard this a lot, but every single cubic centimeter of your background is pure perfection

[@sebastianrosa7935]

Although he served a term nowhere near as short as a lot of the other people on here, former US president William Henry Harrison is famous for dying in office exactly a month after being elected into it.

[@カスカディア国人]

Sebastian Rosa was he the guy who gave the speech in the rain and got pneumonia?

[@sebastianrosa7935]

Yep, he refused to wear a coat or hat and contracted a cold, it only got worse as the weeks passed and took his life one month to the day after his inauguration.

[@カスカディア国人]

Sebastian Rosa ah yes that’s what I thought just needed to double check, I definitely remember my dad telling me this story growing up, I thought it was hilarious as a kid.

[@sebastianrosa7935]

It kinda is, he was a war hero, governor of the Indiana Territory, a prominent figure of society at the time... and he was done in by a cold.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Well I've been king of America for 0 seconds, so I beat you all

[@thehoosher9322]

Im King of the Universe seeing that noone has spoken out about it

[@cringeboi498]

Nortan: i see no god up here other then me

[@haydebbig7610]

Fllcking cap

[@SwoteOffical]

Well I’m king of Canada! Just for a few seconds.

[@therealpradowaits]

so have i

[@davidmcrae4791]

Damn dude. That got deep.

[@WelshBathBoy]

In Britain (although technically Scotland wasn't part of the union then) I guess the most famous short lived monarch is Lady Jane Grey, she was queen for 9 days between the death of Edward VI and Mary I. Edward was Henry VIII's only son, was king from the age of 9 to 15, Mary was Henry VIII's eldest daughter, and being Catholic meant the establishment didn't want her to be queen, edward left the crown to Jane (his distant cousin) in his will, decrying his half sisters Mary and Elisabeth (later Elizabeth I) as illegitimate. Mary's supporters arrested Jane and she was beheaded in the Tower of London aged 16. If you ever find yourself in the national gallery in London, I suggest you see the painting 'The Execution of Lady Jane Grey' by Paul Delaroche, a moving painting which just shows the madness around how these children were used as pawns by old men in their quest for power.

[@tacosmexicanstyle7846]

Vodka Lime Soda My personal favourite is still the 20 minute King of France, Louis XIX

[@johnnyjakesman8305]

Really interesting video JJ. You do a fantastic job of coming up with ideas every week. I don’t is it is sane in Canada but in UK when one Prime Minister visits the Queen and resigns and the other goes to visit to be the next, we have shirt gap with no leader.

[@JJMcCullough]

Thank you! I always worry about running out of ideas! Though whenever I have a mental block I can just churn out another world leaders summary.

[@MustraOrdo]

@@JJMcCullough smart

[@Top_Hat_Man]

Your profile is america/britain/canada! This is a cool profile!

[@gdroce8569]

The way you pronounced President Kgalema Motlanthes name made me laugh but great attempt.. made my day 😂

[@DMfan1994]

Australia's shortest serving prime minister Frank Forde was in office for 7 days. His predecessor John Curtin died of a heart attack on July 5, 1945 and the Labor Party parliamentary caucus to elect a new leader wasn't scheduled to meet for another week. But since Australia was still busy fighting the Japanese during WWII the country still needed a prime minister to coordinate its war strategy until a permanent party leader was elected and sworn in. Then-deputy prime minister Forde was sworn in on July 6 with the intention of resigning if he wasn't elected as party leader. He didn't do much of significance and lost the leadership contest to Ben Chifley, who was sworn in as prime minister on July 13, 1945 after Forde resigned earlier that day. While it's easy to say that since Forde didn't do much or stay that long he doesn't really count as prime minister, because he was legitimately sworn in without the messy coup politics like you see in Africa and Latin America he's officially recognised as prime minister (not just as an interrim), and has an official prime ministerial portrait and everything.

[@mrdarcy1985]

I'm just waiting for Australia to be mentioned and our strange ability to knife every PM in the back once they look like they might lose an election. Edit: Oh god that cartoon... I'd forgotten about that cartoon... a friend of mine is the producer of Media Watch and just had to go over that Serena Williams cartoon a Melbourne paper published. Australian political cartoons tend to be, well, brutal.

[@Redrally]

There was an entire exhibition of Aussie satirical cartoons in the Australian Parliament building when I visited (about 10 years ago now...oof). I gasped and laughed quite a bit at the bite. It's like they took the British satire and turned it up to 11, while dropping all pretenses of finesse and refinement on the way.

[@sentientarugula2884]

@@Redrally well the cartoon he showed was just a bit much to me, Aussie satire is top notch stuff doe

[@ryaningham5374]

I know this is an old comment but I would put money on old ScoMo being kicked out within the next couple of months as it doesn't look like he'll win the 2022 elections.

[@TrigramThunder]

In Barcelona, Spain, in 27 October 2017, for less than 8 seconds, Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó unilaterally declared independence of the Catalonian region from Spain, but suspended it right after. I thought this was gonna be here. There is even a nice meme circulating that shows separatists' faces who were watching live outside of the parliament, in a giant screen, who in turn were being recorded so we could see them on TV at home, changing expression very quickly from gleefully jumping and hugging each other and waving their flags and shouting, to looking at the screen with a gaping mouth and a disappointed face while swearing and in general freaking out.

[@laprankster3264]

Was this some sort of prank?

[@TrigramThunder]

@@laprankster3264 nah. the separatist movement here is wild. both sides are heavily polarized. they'll literally put riot police in the middle of the demonstrations to separate the separatist mass of people from the conservative mass. we also have field paramedics with kevlar suits and weighted tip lead batons who claim to be neutral but are clearly biased towards helping the separatist side.

[@ArellanoAgriculture]

Since I am The Chosen Dictator Of Canada, I have served a total of 3.2000000000 microseconds. Beat that JJ.

[@thecommunistpartyofvooperi9613]

Well, as I am the dictator of The USA, I have served 2.100000000000000000000000000 Microseconds. Beat That!

[@me-bq2yw]

I was the People's Dictator of Scotland for 1 yoctosecond

[@eggy543]

You both beat the record at 0 seconds, because you both didn't became leaders of your respective countries. BEAT THAT!

[@dylanwang9192]

I was dictator of China for one nanosecond BEAT THAT

[@imyou2429]

I served as the emperor of florida for .00000000000000000000000000000000001 nanoseconds

[@unagjac890]

William Henry Harrison - 31 days

[@pothkan]

These are rookie numbers.

[@lkjhfdszxcvbnm]

In Mexico we had a president for 45 minutes Pedro Lascuráin but it was part of a coup d'état as they killed the president but before he was forced to resign, then the next person in the chain of power named Huerta (who planned the coup) minister so he would be president after he resigned.

[@2312uri]

I entered to this video just to see if he was in it

[@fonsoc.4687]

6:13 I think what you were trying to write is "La crisis de sucesión en Venezuela", and not "El crisis sucesióno en Venezuela" By the way, I'm Spanish :)

[@Cyro23]

Se nota

[@katalbinson6562]

fonsoc. You can tell he’s Canadian when he fails to pronounce Piedra. In Canada you learn French, not Spanish, unlike most of the US.

[@Jonaz_Studios]

Who else is here after Liz truss joined this party

[@vinsales5926]

Prince Milan Obrenovic II ruled for 26 days Jane Grey reigned for only 9 days Louis XIX reigned for 20 minutes Emperor Michael I Komnenos reigned for 1 day Tsar Michael II ruled for 16 hours Victoria Kamamalu reigned for 5 hours Sultan Sayyid Khalid ruled for 2 days Napoleon II ruled for 16 days King Zimri ruled for 1 week King Sigeric reigned for 1 week Prince Luís Filipe was king of Portugal for 15 minutes Mindaugas II of Lithuania

[@Strom1886]

We have also Jean I "Postume" in France who reigned for 5 days

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Umbert the 2nd of Savoy, the King of May, king of Italy for a month from the 9th of May 1946 to the 10th of June 1946 when the results of the referendum were published and the Republic of Italy was declared.

[@inwalters]

i don't think Mindaugus II aka Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach ever actually reigned at all

[@seaotter4439]

William Henry Harrison in America only served 30 days before dying in office

[@mactheknife7049]

The U.S. State of New Jersey had a week, at the end of January/beginning of February, 2002, in which five different people served or acted as Governor; one of which was in charge for roughly 90 minutes.

[@la_lavanda]

"Diosdado Cabello" means "God-given Hair" in English.

[@lobachevscki]

I was looking in the comments to see if someone made comment hahahahah

[@Bonk_Co]

After the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell, there were a bunch of prime ministers for Hungary during 1918 and 1919, the first one in office for 5 days. Other prime ministers only lasted for a few weeks to a few months. Hungary was just a dumpster fire during that time.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Almost all Italian political leaders since 1948 could classify for this list, since the average time in the office here in Italy is just over 1 year, with very few people having remained in power for more than 3 years. And forget a second mandate.

[@danadnauseam]

The transition from James K. Polk to Zachary Taylor as US President in 1849 created a one-day gap between the expiration of Polk's term on March 3 and Taylor's inauguration, postponed from March 4 to March 5 to accommodate a Sunday. The Vice-President's term had also expired, and at the time, the next office in line of succession was the president pro tempore of the Senate. Thus, occasionally David Rice Atchison is called president for one day. He is known to have slept through the entire day, having returned home from the Senate very late the night before and telling his housekeeeper not to disturb him.

[@markabdelmessih2228]

those 10 seconds between 4:30 to 4:40 creeped the living hell out of me lol

[@diegodiego1234]

Here in argentina, Cristina Kirchner resigned the presidency one day before Macri's inauguration ceremony, just because she doesn't wanted to give him the Baton and the Presidential Sash. Federico Pinedo was the president for about 12 hours. After 3 years of Macri destroiying all the country, I understand Cristina.

[@jaitsu1616]

Liz truss here we gooo

[@UnPuntoyComa]

In Mexico, in February 1913, General Victoriano Huerta killed President Madero and Vicepresident Pino Suárez, making the current Minister of Foreign Relations, Pedro Lascurain president. As a hostage of Huerta, his only two acts as president were naming Huerta Ministry of Government (therefore, next in succession), and resigning. Total time: 45 minutes.

[@julianquintana7109]

In Ecuador we had President Rosalía Arteaga, who was president four 5 days, that was our shortest serving president, an actually our first and only female president

[@kociakarma1237]

One time Poland had a president for 4 days before he was asasinated. His name was Gabriel Narutowicz.

[@PartyDude_19]

Happy to see you!

[@JJMcCullough]

Party Dude 17 and I am happy to see you!

[@Cmilk24]

About a year ago, on 27th October I think, Carles Puigdemont served as de facto president of the imaginary Republic of Catalunya when he proclaimed its independence and suspended it 30 seconds after. 2 days after he run from Spain, and all his mates are being judged for that.

[@jajaja1282]

Yay new JJ video! Love your channel!

[@coolkid-re6ff]

I really enjoyed this video. It was very intresting. Thank You

[@julek2105]

Gabriel Narutowicz was president of Poland for 5 days until his assassination.

[@Bustedrocket]

The best Canadian KZbinr, everyone! 🇨🇦🍁

[@poesc]

Glad you enjoyed the book JJ I enjoyed this episode, thought it was very interesting. I’d like to see a video of shortest serving leaders in democratic countries (where there was no revolution or overthrow of a government).

[@historyhub9211]

Like William Henry Harrison.

[@JamesAlex88]

The shortest reign of any monarch that I’m aware of (although her reign is disputed) in my country (🇬🇧) was Lady Jane Grey, she become known as the ‘9 Days Queen’ after she was tried for high treason and beheaded.

[@Cambrandreth]

South American Countries, particularly Argentina, provide an example of just about every scenario you mentioned. Very interesting stuff!

[@gstanley17]

Yes a new jj video!

[@carloseduardoaguiar8712]

In Brazil, Zacaria de Góis first term as Prime Minister was the shortest premieship, while his party (the Progressive League) didnt get a majority and neither was the party with the most deputies (that was the liberal party), but due to negotiation he was able to be the Prime Minister, but was quickly removed in only 6 days.

[@ADCD-dj8gz]

Jimmy Carter vs George Bush Sr... wait wrong channel

[@socceriscool85]

ADCD 0405 oh shit what up

[@brodym.3547]

no... leave.

[@michaelheeheejackson7255]

Wow... I watch that channel too... hm.

[@lobachevscki]

As a Venezuelan, specially as a person who opposed Chavez since he gained power (i was 15 at the time), I have to say that your assesment of the venezuelan coup of 2002 was really good. The Venezuelan White House is called Miraflores. And if you were to translate Diosdado Cabello to english it would be GodGiven Hair, which is the nickname we have for him.

[@troxlotl]

Love your video, JJ. Keep doing your great work! 🇨🇦

[@delila5034]

On February 1st, 1908 King Carlos of Portugal was on a royal tour with his son, Crown Prince Luis Filipe when they were assassinated. King Carlos died immediately and his son died 30 minutes later on the way to the hospital from blood loss. At the time, when a king died his predecessor became the reining king immediately after the former king died, so for 30 minutes, Luis Filipe was the king of Portugal.

[@treekangaroo.7691]

what about that time in Mexico where they had three presidents in an hour?

[@hideriplays2626]

Malaysian second Yang DiPertuan Agong, Sultan Hisamuddin of Selangor, was the ruler that served the shortest term in Malaysia. He was elected on April 14, 1960 before dying on May 1, the same year. He ruled for 18 days

[@pacogonzalez952]

In Mexico we had a president, Pedro Lascuráin, who served for only 45 minutes before resigning in favor of Victoriano Huerta, the one who planned the coup against legal president Madero.

[@UnPuntoyComa]

There's also president Puidgemont of Catalonia, whose only acts were proclaiming the Independence of Catalonia, and, 45 seconds after, putting on hold such proclamation. Total time: 45 seconds

[@GH-oi2jf]

What year?

[@jorgetorresgonzalez4570]

In Puerto Rico the present governor was chosen for 5 days but then got elected

[@jazzcabbage70]

4:25 I overthrew Justin Trudeau

[@eggy543]

Not true.

[@CitrusyGuy]

@@eggy543 r/woosh

[@LionelJHutz]

Winnipeg Jets

[@sonicboy678]

I'm mildly surprised to find William Henry Harrison wasn't mentioned. Okay, he only lasted a month before kicking the bucket, but he'd basically managed to accomplish a great deal of nothing.

[@strangedib]

During the collapse of the USSR there was an event called "GKChP uprising". On the 18th of August,1991 Vice President and some other guys has created "The State Committee on the State of Emergency". This organization was in power almost for 3 days and surrendered pretty quickly. They have tried to arrest Gorbachev and have entered tanks in Moscow.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I have heard of this event, albeit as the "1991 August Coup". This 3-day "government" sped up the dissolution of the Soviet Union, so there seems to be some irony to the story of this failed attempt to preserve the USSR. Now, the red-flag-waving Soviet people are largely the stuff of history and 30-to-70-year-outdated American pop culture (and that's an American talking!). For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_August_Coup

[@DylanDoesStuff1]

Actually, (correct me if i'm wrong) the shortest presidency time goes to Carles Puigdemont with 8 seconds. According to Half as Interesting: "On October 1st, 2017, Catalonia held a referendum and overwhemingly voted to become independent from Spain. On October 10, the Catalan leader held a speech where he declared independence, saying 'I assume the mandate of the people for Catalonia to become an independent state in the shape of a republic.' But right after that, he asked Parliament to suspend his declaration of independence so that he could negotiate with Spain, giving the independent state of Catalonia a lifespan of exactly... *eight seconds.* "

[@thatocelot879]

It seriously takes you 15 hours to get out of bed. It takes me 15 hours to even go to bed.

[@hermannmeier9405]

It is a constitutional gimmick: In Germany if the head of state, the federal president, resigns unscheduled the head of the federal council takes over temporarily until the next 'real' federal president is elected. This may last for up to 30 days. The head of the federal council is one of the 16 prime ministers of the federal states (Länder). Every year another prime minister becomes president of the federal council on a rotation system. You need a temporary acting replacement, because the federal president must sign state laws to become effective. This happened at least twice; as far as I know. (Other than that it's not a big deal, because the German federal president has very limited power compared to the chancellor.)

[@kevintrang3007]

Nicht "Bundesländer"?

[@hermannmeier9405]

@@kevintrang3007 Bundesländer is the German word. Federal state is a translation

[@anaverageyoutubeuser]

In my country, Paraguay, the shortest serving president was Facundo Machaín. He took office on the sunset of August 31, 1870, but 12 hours later he was overthrew from power without even exercising it, at dawn on September 1, 1870. He was also the youngest president of Paraguay, he was 25 years old when he was appointed to the presidency.

[@abraxamovic]

Maaaan, we really like when you sit for 20 or so minutes and open mail. Don’t do one mail per week. I would really sit for an hour and just watch your videos ❤️❤️ Luv you man

[@zz-xk7lc]

You along with general knowledge, half as interesting, and real life lore are the best informative KZbin channels that teach geography and social studies. I would mention Atun Shei (He is amazing), but I don’t know if he makes the same content as you.

[@TheScrowlingFender7]

William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the US. His tenure lasted 30 days and he died while in office.

[@friedrichwilhelmvonhohenzo5962]

After Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated, he abdicated to his son. His majesty, Napoleon II, Emperor of the French, reigned for two days before the Bonaparte dynasty was forced to give up the throne entirely.

[@templar19]

Who's watching in 2024 and remembering when it was still okay to say "No-see", "unalive", and "Hitlar"?

[@louis4949]

Spitting Image is a famous political show from the 80’s and 90’s, it can inform you on some of the stuff happening at that time

[@aidenblay2298]

That “moment” made me prepare to meet the Grandmaster

[@ravenlord4]

I'd be interested about times when countries had either NO leader, or two or more competing claimants as leader (not counting countries who have multiple leaders as a norm, though that would be an interesting toipic too :) )

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

Italy technically had no leader for over a year, from 1945 to 1946, until in the 10th of June 1946 the results of the referendum were published and the Republic of Italy was declared.

[@JMcLeodKC711]

Great vid. Couldn't help but notice my favorite condiment, Old Bay, on your shelf. You also have Kim Philby's favorite condiment Colmans Mustard.

[@kutticherrypaultomytomy7554]

But the shortest ever time in power should technically go to Louis XIX of France. In 1830, the July Revolt forced the incumbent Bourbon King Charles X to abdicate in favour of his son, Prince Louis. But Louis, who technically became Louis XIX didn't want to rule and so abdicated just 20 minutes later in favour of his nephew Prince Henry (who came to seen as the next king Henry V by Royalists). But the real successor was of course Louis Phillippe of Orléans.

[@Garcim14]

Sad you didn't mention Argentina and the week where it had 5 presidents

[@Mr._Lechkar]

10 years since Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri became president of South Africa!!

[@simmy8701]

HassanLechkar fun times 😂😂

[@ToasterBrain51702]

I like the Earthbound background

[@JasmineJu]

Even though Kim Cambell was in office for 132 days, I consider her to be an interm leader as she didn't actually do anything.

[@eliotguerin192]

At 4:28 we got something very special and specific: a parody of AVGN’s review of Earthbound, which itself contained a parody of Earthbound.

[@Filpiovano]

In Brazil Ranieri Mazzilli served two non-consecutive terms as president for about 10 days each time. He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies and took over when Janio Quadros unexpectedly resigned from office to make way for his VP to take the oath. When his VP, João Goulart, was deposed by the military 2.5 years later Mazzilli again assumed the role as president briefly to make way for the Military Junta.

[@sig757]

Kim Campbell served only a 6-month term in Canada when she was elected in the PCC party from June 13 1993 to December 13th 1993

[@yarharfiddledede]

slick earthbound reference.

[@Groggle7141]

I think it counts if the leader has real power and control over the country, like the guy who succeeded Hitler even though he didn’t last long

[@lufax]

Liked the format of opening parcels every week. 20-min long gift videos are hard... Regards from Brazil!

[@antoniomiguel2641]

Hello. In 1908, Portugal's king (D. Carlos) was assassinated, and so was his eldest son, but technically as his son died about 20 minutes after him and as there was no such need for ''papers'' to make the king be the king, Luís Filipe was the king of Portugal for 20 minutes.

[@PhilliesNostalgia]

Hey JJ, you forgot to mention Pedro Lascuraín, who was President of Mexico on February 19, 1913 for roughly 45 minutes. Even though he was Acting President, does that still count?

[@kc1171]

Great vid man!

[@dimathegreat6567]

Great Video, I think the shortest ever leader was Chernov. Any way the history of Russia in 1917-18 is a complete mess. Firstly, Russia had this period where we were neither a republic or monarchy. So, technically speaking Russia had no leader. Next we had the declaration of the Russian Republic which was proclaimed in September, its official leader was Kerensky, though he wasn’t the actual president, this lasted for a few weeks. Next, there was a strange period after the October revolution in which the Bolsheviks had de facto power, yet the de jure power was vested in the Constituent assembly. There was also a strange period in which the Constituent Assembly declared the official constitution and was de jure the official government of Russia, tho it was soon dissolved (in a few hours), Even though there was no presidential elections, by default the de jure leader was Victor Chernov, becoming the leader of the shortest country ever.

[@hisham1101]

Were you sitting on a yoga ball during the video?

[@JJMcCullough]

Yes

[@Brooklyn-Manhattan]

@@JJMcCullough Bruh.

[@banterallen2936]

Please can you do more Political Cartoons

[@elliot5958]

Pedro Lascuráin, he only served for 1 hour

[@melonmard4995]

4:28 "right now, all that exist is *dominos ad plays*"

Very great video

[@xXpallinnXx]

I think what matters is if you do anything significant for those few hours

[@danielbaer8924]

Great Video!

[@wadyamean4464]

COOL YOU GOT A NEW SUB

[@Thecognoscenti_1]

JJ, you forgot the two very brief Kings of France, Louis XIX and Henri V, of the "Legitimist" line during the chaos of the July Revolution between the reactionary King Charles X before the Revolution and the liberal Louis Phillipe I of the "Orleans" line afterwards. Louis reigned for only 20 minutes (the shortest reign ever recorded), and Henri for a week.

[@Irobert1115HD]

you got a thing wrong about the final hours of the second world war and goebels: the navy wasnt realy beaten or defeated. they simply surendered on command (the navy was the last branch of the armed forces that was completely functional. they only run out of ammo but they still did attack runs to the the new type XXI and type XXIII submarines but those runs where done without torpedos).

[@voit4090]

Pedro Lascurain, president of Mexico for 45 minutes in 1913, during the mexican revolution.

[@ComedyPie1PB]

Thank you. Ive got a history prelim exam on the Cuba Revolution. Now i can be a real smartie-bean

[@hlynnkeith9334]

Closing with mail works for me.

[@complainerstudios4077]

Wayne Mixson was governor of Florida from January 3rd 1987 to January 6th 1987.

[@complainerstudios4077]

I know it's not a world leader but, it's the only thing I know

[@kurtisokc]

On two separate occasions Dick Cheney served as acting president of the US for a few hours while George W. Bush was undergoing a medical procedure. The same thing happened to the elder George Bush while serving as V.P. under President Regan.

[@motis1837]

This may be the 4th or 5th video where I have heard you mention Haitian politics

[@JJMcCullough]

M Otis Haiti and South Africa seem to come up a lot.

[@andybug1]

The 9th President of the US, William Henry Harrison, died one month after his inauguration speech. It was the longest speech of a president in history and he died of pneumonia. :/