President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia is the head of state of Bolivia.

The following table contains a list of the individuals who have served aspresident of Bolivia.

Order	President	Term began	Term ended	Notes
1st	Simón Bolívar Palacios	August 12 1825	December 29 1825
2nd	Antonio José de Sucre Alcalá	December 29 1825	April 18 1828
3rd	José María Pérez de Urdininea	April 18 1828	August 2 1828
4th	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	August 2 1828	December 18 1828	first term
5th	Pedro Blanco Soto	December 26 1828	January 1 1829
	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	January 1 1829	May 24 1829	second term
6th	Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana	May 24 1829	February 17 1839
	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	February 22 1839	June 10 1841	third term
7th	Sebastián Ágreda	June 10 1841	July 9 1841
8th	Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar	July 9 1841	September 22 1841
9th	José Ballivián Segurola	September 27 1841	December 23 1847
10th	Eusebio Guilarte Vera	December 23 1847	January 2 1848
	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	January 18 1848	December 6 1848	fourth term
11th	Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez	December 6 1848	August 15 1855
12th	Jorge Córdova	August 15 1855	September 9 1857
13th	José María Linares Lizarazu	September 9 1857	January 14 1861
14th	José María Achá Valiente	May 4 1861	December 28 1864
15th	Mariano Melgarejo Valencia	December 28 1864	January 15 1871
16th	Agustín Morales Hernández	January 15 1871	November 27 1872
17th	Tomás Frías Ametller	November 28 1872	May 9 1873	first term
18th	Adolfo Ballivián Coll	May 9 1873	January 31 1874
	Tomás Frías Ametller	January 31 1874	May 4 1876	second term
19th	Hilarión Daza Groselle	May 4 1876	December 28 1879
20th	Narciso Campero Leyes	January 19 1880	September 4 1884
21st	Gregorio Pacheco Leyes	September 4 1884	August 15 1888
22nd	Aniceto Arce Ruiz	August 15 1888	August 11 1892
23rd	Mariano Baptista Caserta	August 11 1892	August 19 1896
24th	Severo Fernández Alonso Caballero	August 19 1896	April 12 1899
25th	José Manuel Pando Solares	October 25 1899	August 14 1904
26th	Ismael Montes Gamboa	August 14 1904	August 12 1909	first term
27th	Eliodoro Villazón Montaño	August 12 1909	August 14 1913
	Ismael Montes Gamboa	August 14 1913	August 15 1917	second term
28th	José Gutiérrez Guerra	August 15 1917	July 12 1920
29th	Bautista Saavedra Mallea	January 28 1921	September 3 1925
30th	Felipe Segundo Guzmán	September 3 1925	January 10 1926
31st	Hernando Siles Reyes	January 10 1926	May 28 1930
32nd	Carlos Blanco Galindo	June 28 1930	March 5 1931
33rd	Daniel Salamanca Urey	March 5 1931	December 1 1934
34th	José Luis Tejada Sorzano	December 1 1934	May 16 1936
35th	David Toro Ruilova	May 22 1936	July 13 1937
36th	Germán Busch Becerra	July 13 1937	August 23 1939
37th	Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga	August 23 1939	April 15 1940
38th	Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo	April 15 1940	December 20 1943
39th	Gualberto Villarroel López	December 20 1943	July 21 1946
40th	Néstor Guillén Olmos	July 21 1946	August 17 1946
41st	Tomás Monje Gutiérrez	August 17 1946	March 10 1947
42nd	Enrique Hertzog Garaizabal	March 10 1947	October 22 1949
43rd	Mamerto Urriolagoitia Harriague	October 24 1949	May 16 1951
44th	Hugo Ballivián Rojas	May 16 1951	April 11 1952
45th	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	April 15 1952	August 6 1956	first term
46th	Hernán Siles Zuazo	August 6 1956	August 6 1960	first term
	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6 1960	August 6 1964	second term
	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6 1964	November 4 1964	third term
47th	René Barrientos Ortuño	November 5 1964	May 26 1965	first term
	René Barrientos Ortuño	May 26 1965	January 2 1966	second term
48th	Alfredo Ovando Candía	May 26 1965	January 2 1966	first term
	Alfredo Ovando Candía	January 2 1966	August 6 1966	second term
	René Barrientos Ortuño	August 6 1966	April 27 1969	third term
49th	Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas	April 27 1969	September 26 1969
	Alfredo Ovando Candía	September 26 1969	October 6 1970	third term
50th	Juan José Torres Gonzáles	October 7 1970	August 21 1971
51st	Hugo Banzer Suárez	August 21 1971	July 21 1978	first term
52nd	Juan Pereda Asbún	July 21 1978	November 24 1978
53rd	David Padilla Arancibia	November 24 1978	August 8 1979
54th	Wálter Guevara Arze	August 8 1979	November 1 1979
55th	Alberto Natusch Busch	November 1 1979	November 16 1979
56th	Lidia Gueiler Tejada	November 16 1979	July 17 1980
57th	Luis García Meza Tejada	July 17 1980	August 4 1981
58th	Celso Torrelio Villa	September 4 1981	July 21 1982
59th	Guido Vildoso Calderón	July 21 1982	October 10 1982
	Hernán Siles Zuazo	October 10 1982	August 6 1985	second term
	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6 1985	August 6 1989	fourth term
60th	Jaime Paz Zamora	August 6 1989	August 6 1993
61st	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	August 6 1993	August 6 1997	first term
	Hugo Banzer Suárez	August 6 1997	August 7 2001	second term
62nd	Jorge Quiroga Ramírez	August 7 2001	August 6 2002
	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	August 6 2002	October 17 2003	second term
63rd	Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert	October 17 2003	June 6 2005
64th	Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé	June 9 2005	January 22 2006
65th	Juan Evo Morales Aima	January 22 2006	present

Provisional Presidents

Tenure	President! Notes
1828	José Miguel de Velasco	acting
1828	Pedro Blanco Soto	provisional
1829	José Miguel de Velasco	provisional
1829–1839	Andrés de Santa Cruz	provisional to 1831
1839–1841	José Miguel de Velasco	provisional to 1840
1841	Sebastián Ágreda	provisional
1841	Manuel Calvo Cuéllar	acting
1841–1847	José Ballivián	provisional to 1844
1847–1848	Eusebio Guilarte	interim
1848	Manuel Isidoro Belzu	interim
1848	José Miguel de Velasco	provisional
1848–1855	Manuel Isidoro Belzu	provisional
1857–1861	José María Linares	provisional
1861–1864	José María de Achá	provisional to 1862
1864–1871	Mariano Melgarejo	provisional to 1870
1872	Juan de Dios Bosque	acting
1876–1879	Hilarión Daza	provisional
1880	Narciso Campero	provisional
1880	Aniceto Arce	acting
1925–1926	Felipe Segundo Guzmán	provisional
1936	Germán Busch Becerra	provisional
1939–1940	Carlos Quintanilla	provisional
1952	Hernán Siles Zuazo	provisional
1965–1966	René Barrientos Ortuño + Alfredo Ovando Candía	Co-Government
1979	Wálter Guevara Arze	interim
1979–1980	Lydia Gueiler Tejada	interim

Trivia

In 1983, a poll was taken by the newspaper Última Hora to determine which seven historical presidents were regarded as most significant. The "winners" were Antonio José de Sucre, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Mariano Melgarejo, Aniceto Arce, Ismael Montes, and Víctor Paz Estenssoro.

See also

*History of Bolivia
*Politics of Bolivia

External link

* Gallery of Presidents of Bolivia

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