Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (1908 – Potomac

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, Montgomery County

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, Maryland

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, December 16, 1997) was the Nicaragua

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n ambassador

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 to the United States

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 from 1943 until 1979, when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle

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 was ousted from Nicaragua. As a result of his record breaking service as ambassador in Washington, D.C.

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, he was appointed Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, a position he held until July 1979.

He was the son of J. Ramón Sevilla Castellón and wife Dolores Sacasa Sacasa, daughter of Roberto Sacasa, 44th and 46th President of Nicaragua

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, and wife and cousin Ángela Sacasa Cuadra.

Known as the "world's most decorated ambassador", he was a judge

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 and Speaker of the Nicaraguan House. He also served as Ambassador to the U.S. for 36 years under 8 American Presidents and 11 Secretaries of State.

In 1943, Sevilla-Sacasa married Lillian Somoza Debayle, born in León, Nicaragua

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, on May 3, 1921, daughter of Anastasio Somoza García

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, 65th and 69th President of Nicaragua, and wife Salvadora Debayle Sacasa, and had nine children:

• Guillermo Sevilla Somoza, who has four children from a previous marriage:
  • William C. Sevilla
  • Christine Sevilla
  • Alexander David Sevilla
  • Robert Sevilla

• Lillian Salvadora Sevilla Somoza
• Luis Ramón Sevilla Somoza
• Edda Sevilla Somoza
• Julia Sevilla Somoza, married to Steven B. Hopping, M.D., has three children from a previous marriage:
  • Mario Sacasa Sevilla
  • Ricardo Sacasa Sevilla
  • Julia C. Sacasa Sevilla de Checa
• Lorena Isabel Sevilla Somoza, has two children from a previous marriage;
  • Lorena Anastasia Laurenzano
  • Carolyn Christina Laurenzano
• Eduardo Sevilla Somoza, Nicaragua's Ambassador to the United Nations
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  from 2000-2007, married to Beatriz Obregon Lacayo, Miss Nicaragua 1977; together they have three children:
  • Eduardo "Dito" Jose Sevilla Obregon
  • Carlos Guillermo Sevilla Obregon
  • Beatriz Carolina Sevilla Obregon
• Alejandro Javier Sevilla Somoza, married to Bryony Sara Veater has two children;
  • Jennifer Claire Sevilla
  • Alejandro Guillermo Sevilla
• Bernardo David Sevilla Somoza, married to Kymberly Young Martin, has two children:
  • Nicolas Martin Sevilla
  • Evan David Sevilla