Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former US leader in history to have his mugshot taken.
He was briefly arrested and taken to the Fulton County Jail on charges bordering on his attempts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. It is the fourth time criminal charges have been brought against the Republican this year.
At the Fulton County Jail, he was subjected to some of the routines of criminal defendant intake including having his photo taken which has now turned into a historic piece.
Though Trump is the first former president with a mugshot, he isn’t the first world leader with one.
Here are three other former world leaders with mugshots.
1. Vladimir Lenin
Lenin’s mugshot was taken in 1885 after his arrest by the then-Russian leader, Czar Nicholas II for his revolutionary activities. He was later sent to complete jail term in Siberia.
When his term of Siberian exile was finished, Lenin left Russia but twenty years later, he became the head of the government of Soviet Russia.
2. Joseph Stalin
Lenin’s successor, Joseph Stalin, had his mugshot taken in 1911 after several arrests for his Okhranka for revolutionary activities.
After seven months in prison, he was sentenced to two years of exile and was sent to the village of Solvychegodsk. After seven months in exile, he disguised himself as a woman and escaped on a train to St. Petersburg.
When he was staying in Baku doing revolutionary activities he was arrested for the second time, this time for terrorism, robbery, and revolutionary agitation at the Caucasus.
3. Benito Mussolini
The Italian dictator’s mugshot was taken in 1903 after his arrest in Bern, Switzerland, for advocating a violent general strike. He was later deported to Italy where he had fled to avoid conscription
Year after, he would go ahead to found the fascist movement in Italy.
