List of presidents of Uruguay
Uruguay is a presidential republic in which the president is both the head of state and head of government. The following is a list of all the people who have held the office of President of Uruguay since 6 November 1830.
Governors of Uruguay as a province[change]
Oriental Province (1814–1817)[change]
Province part of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | File:NRodriguez.jpg | Nicolás Rodríguez Peña (1775–1853) |
9 July 1814 | 25 August 1814 | Governor. Appointed by Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. |
| (2) | File:M E Soler por Bettinoti.jpg | Miguel Estanislao Soler (1783–1849) |
25 August 1814 | 25 February 1815 | Governor. |
| (3) | File:Fernando Otorgués.jpg | Fernando Otorgués (1774–1831) |
26 February 1815 | July 1815 | Governor. Appointed by José Gervasio Artigas. |
| (4) | File:19- MIGUEL BARREIRO (no border).jpg | Miguel Barreiro (1789–1848) |
July 1815 | 20 January 1817 | Governor. Appointed by José Gervasio Artigas. |
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Cisplatine Province (1817–1828)[change]
After the Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental the Oriental Province became a province of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves and a province of the Empire of Brazil after 1822.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| /1/ | File:Carlos Federico Lecor.jpg | Carlos Frederico Lecor (1764–1836) |
20 January 1817 | 3 February 1826 | Governor. |
| /2/ | File:Francisco de Paula Magessi Tavares de Carvalho (Barão de Vila Bela).png | Francisco de Paula Magessi Tavares de Carvalho (1769–1847) |
3 February 1826 | 27 August 1828 | Governor. |
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Oriental Province (1825–1828)[change]
In the Congress of Florida the Oriental Province declared independence from the Empire of Brazil and reunited with the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (5) | File:Lavalleja juan antonio.jpg | Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784–1853) |
19 September 1825 | 5 July 1826 | Governor. Appointed by the Congress of Florida. |
| (6) | File:Suarez-joaquin.jpg | Joaquín Suárez (1781–1868) |
5 July 1826 | 12 October 1827 | Governor. |
| (7) | File:Luis Eduardo Pérez.JPG | Luis Eduardo Pérez (1774–1841) |
12 October 1827 | 27 August 1828 | Governor. Appointed by Juan Antonio Lavalleja. |
Heads of state of Uruguay as an independent country[change]
Government and Provisional General Captaincy of the Oriental State of Uruguay (1828–1830)[change]
After the Preliminary Peace Convention the Oriental Province gained effective independence from the Empire of Brazil and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1- | File:Luis Eduardo Pérez.JPG | Luis Eduardo Pérez (1774–1841) |
27 August 1828 | 1 December 1828 | Governor and Provisional Captain General. Appointed by Juan Antonio Lavalleja. |
| -2- | File:Suarez-joaquin.jpg | Joaquín Suárez (1781–1868) |
2 December 1828 | 22 December 1828 | Governor and Provisional Captain General. Appointed by the General Constituent Assembly. |
| -3- | File:Jose Rondeau.jpg | José Rondeau (1775–1844) |
22 December 1828 [1] | 17 April 1830 [2] | Governor and Provisional Captain General. Appointed by the General Constituent Assembly. Resigned. |
| -4- | File:Lavalleja juan antonio.jpg | Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784–1853) |
17 April 1830 | 28 June 1830 | Governor and Provisional Captain General. Appointed by the General Constituent Assembly. |
Oriental State of Uruguay (1830–1919)[change]
The Constitution of 1830 comes into force.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Elected | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -5- | File:Juan Antonio Lavalleja (cropped).png | Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784–1853) |
28 June 1830 | 24 October 1830 | — | — | Governor and Provisional Captain General. Appointed by the General Constituent Assembly. | |
| =1= | File:Luis Eduardo Pérez.JPG | Luis Eduardo Pérez (1774–1841) |
24 October 1830 | 6 November 1830 | — | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 1 | File:Fructuoso Rivera (cropped).jpg | Fructuoso Rivera (1784–1854) |
6 November 1830 | 24 October 1834 | — | 1830 | 1st Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | |
| =2= | File:Carlos Anaya.jpg | Carlos Anaya (1777–1862) |
24 October 1834 | 1 March 1835 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 2 | File:Manuel Oribe por Rose (cropped).jpg | Manuel Oribe (1792–1857) |
1 March 1835 | 24 October 1838 | National | 1835 | 2nd Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | |
| =3= | File:Gabriel A Pereira presi uy.jpg | Gabriel Antonio Pereira (1794–1861) |
24 October 1838 | 1 March 1839 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 3 | File:Fructuoso Rivera (cropped).jpg | Fructuoso Rivera (1784–1854) |
1 March 1839 | 1 March 1843 | Colorado | 1839 | 3rd Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| - | File:Manuel Oribe por Rose (cropped).jpg | Manuel Oribe (1792–1857) |
16 February 1843 | 8 October 1851 | National | — | Self-proclaimed president of the Gobierno del Cerrito, during the Uruguayan Civil War. | |
| =4= | File:Joaquin Suarez con la banda presidencial (cropped).jpg | Joaquín Suárez (1781–1868) |
1 March 1843 | 15 February 1852 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. President of the Gobierno de la Defensa, during the Uruguayan Civil War. | |
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| =5= | File:Bernardo Berro (cropped).jpg | Bernardo Prudencio Berro (1803–1868) |
15 February 1852 | 1 March 1852 | National | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 4 | File:Juan F. Giró (cropped).jpg | Juan Francisco Giró (1791–1863) |
1 March 1852 | 25 September 1853 | National | 1852 | 4th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Ousted from office by a coup d'état. | |
| - | File:Floresvenancio.jpg | Venancio Flores (1808–1868) |
25 September 1853 | 12 March 1854 | Colorado | — | Triumvirate. Fructuoso Rivera and Juan Antonio Lavalleja died in office. | |
| File:Fructuoso Rivera Daguerrotipo (cropped).JPG | Fructuoso Rivera (1784–1854) |
25 September 1853 | 13 January 1854 | Colorado | ||||
| File:Juan Antonio Lavalleja (cropped).png | Juan Antonio Lavalleja (1784–1853) |
25 September 1853 | 22 October 1853 | — | ||||
| 5 | File:Floresvenancio.jpg | Venancio Flores (1808–1868) |
12 March 1854 | 10 September 1855 | Colorado | 1854 | 5th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | |
| - | Luis María Lamas (1793–1864) |
29 August 1855 | 10 September 1855 | Conservative | — | Self-proclaimed president after the Rebellion of the Conservatives. | ||
| =6= | File:Manuelbasiliobustamante.jpg | Manuel Basilio Bustamante (1785–1863) |
10 September 1855 | 15 February 1856 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| =7= | José María Plá (1794–1869) |
15 February 1856 | 1 March 1856 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | ||
| 6 | File:Gabriel A Pereira presi uy.jpg | Gabriel Antonio Pereira (1794–1861) |
1 March 1856 | 1 March 1860 | Colorado | 1856 | 6th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| 7 | File:Bernardo Berro (cropped).jpg | Bernardo Prudencio Berro (1803–1868) |
1 March 1860 | 1 March 1864 | National | 1860 | 7th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| =8= | File:Atanasio Aguirre.jpg | Atanasio Cruz Aguirre (1801–1875) |
1 March 1864 | 15 February 1865 | National | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. Resigned after the Brazilian invasion. | |
| =9= | File:Tomás Villalba.jpg | Tomás Villalba (1805–1886) |
15 February 1865 | 20 February 1865 | National | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. Resigned after the Brazilian invasion. | |
| ·1· | File:Venancio Flores circa 1865.jpg | Venancio Flores (1808–1868) |
20 February 1865 | 15 February 1868 | Colorado | — | De facto president after the Brazilian invasion. Assumed power as Provisional Governor for 3 years. | |
| =10= | File:Pedro Varela.jpg | Pedro Varela (1837–1906) |
15 February 1868 | 1 March 1868 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 8 | File:Lorenzo Batlle y Grau 2.png | Lorenzo Batlle (1810–1887) |
1 March 1868 | 1 March 1872 | Colorado | 1868 | 8th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| =11= | File:Tomás Gomensoro.jpg | Tomás Gomensoro Albín (1810–1900) |
1 March 1872 | 1 March 1873 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 9 | File:JoseEllauri1870.jpg | José Eugenio Ellauri (1834–1894) |
1 March 1873 | 22 January 1875 | Colorado | 1873 | 9th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | |
| 10 | File:Pedro Varela.jpg | Pedro Varela (1837–1906) |
22 January 1875 | 10 March 1876 | Colorado | — | 10th Constitutional President, appointed by the General Assembly after the resignation of Ellauri. Ousted by a coup d'état. | |
| ·2· | File:LorenzoLatorre1875 (cropped).jpg | Lorenzo Latorre (1844–1916) |
10 March 1876 | 1 March 1879 | Colorado | — | Assumed power as Provisional Governor. | |
| 11 | 1 March 1879 | 15 March 1880 | 1879 | 11th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | ||||
| 12 | File:Francisco Antonino Vidal (cropped).JPG | Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) |
15 March 1880 | 1 March 1882 | Colorado | — | 12th Constitutional President, appointed as president by the General Assembly to finish the presidential period 1879–1883. Resigned. | |
| 13 | File:Maximo Santos.jpg | Máximo Santos (1847–1889) |
1 March 1882 | 1 March 1886 | Colorado | — | 13th Constitutional President, appointed by the General Assembly for a term of 4 years. | |
| 14 | File:Francisco Antonino Vidal (cropped).JPG | Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) |
1 March 1886 | 24 May 1886 | Colorado | 1886 | 14th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Resigned. | |
| =12= | File:Gral. Máximo Benito Santos (cropped).jpg | Máximo Santos (1847–1889) |
24 May 1886 | 18 November 1886 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. Resigned. | |
| 15 | File:MaximoTajes.jpg | Máximo Tajes (1852–1912) |
18 November 1886 | 1 March 1890 | Colorado | — | 15th Constitutional President, appointed as president by the General Assembly to finish the presidential period 1886–1890. | |
| 16 | File:Julio Herrera y Obes (cropped).png | Julio Herrera y Obes (1841–1912) |
1 March 1890 | 1 March 1894 | Colorado | 1890 | 16th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| =13= | File:DuncanStewart.jpg | Duncan Stewart (1833–1923) |
1 March 1894 | 21 March 1894 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 17 | File:Presidente Juan Idiarte Borda (cropped).jpg | Juan Idiarte Borda (1844–1897) |
21 March 1894 | 25 August 1897 | Colorado | 1894 | 17th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. Assassinated. | |
| =14= | File:JuanLCuestas.jpg | Juan Lindolfo Cuestas (1837–1905) |
25 August 1897 | 10 February 1898 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| ·3· | 10 February 1898 | 15 February 1899 | De facto president following a self-coup. Resigned. | |||||
| =15= | File:JoseBatlle1900.jpg | José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856–1929) |
15 February 1899 | 1 March 1899 | Colorado | — | President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. | |
| 18 | File:Presidente Juan Lindolfo Cuestas.jpg | Juan Lindolfo Cuestas (1837–1905) |
1 March 1899 | 1 March 1903 | Colorado | 1899 | 18th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| 19 | File:JoseBatlle1900.jpg | José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856–1929) |
1 March 1903 | 1 March 1907 | Colorado | 1903 | 19th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| 20 | File:Presidente Claudio Williman (cropped).tif | Claudio Williman (1861–1934) |
1 March 1907 | 1 March 1911 | Colorado | 1907 | 20th Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| 21 | File:Batlle en su segundo gobierno constitucional.jpg | José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856–1929) |
1 March 1911 | 1 March 1915 | Colorado | 1911 | 21st Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
| 22 | File:Viera-feliciano.jpg | Feliciano Viera (1872–1927) |
1 March 1915 | 1 March 1919 | Colorado | 1915 | 22nd Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. | |
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Oriental Republic of Uruguay (1919–present)[change]
The Constitution of 1918 comes into force. According to the Constitution, the president is elected by direct popular election for a term of five years. He may be re-elected any number of times, but is ineligible for immediate re-election.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | Elected | Notes | Vice President | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | File:BaltasarBrum.jpg | Baltasar Brum (1883–1933) |
1 March 1919 | 1 March 1923 | Colorado | 1919 | 23rd Constitutional President, elected by the General Assembly. The President served as part of the executive alongside the National Council of Administration, headed by a President:
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Post not established | |
| 24 | José Serrato (1868–1960) |
1 March 1923 | 1 March 1927 | Colorado | 1922 | 24th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. The President served as part of the executive alongside the National Council of Administration, headed by a President:
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| 25 | File:Juan Campisteguy Oxcoby in 1917 closeup.jpg | Juan Campisteguy (1859–1937) |
1 March 1927 | 1 March 1931 | Colorado | 1926 | 25th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. The President served as part of the executive alongside the National Council of Administration, headed by a President:
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| 26 | File:Terra 1934.jpg | Gabriel Terra (1873–1942) |
1 March 1931 | 31 March 1933 | Colorado | 1930 | 26th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. The President served as part of the executive alongside the National Council of Administration, headed by a President:
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| ·4· | 31 March 1933 | 18 May 1934 | — | De facto president following a self-coup. | |||||
| 18 May 1934 | 19 June 1938 | Provisional president elected by the 3rd National Constituent Convention. | Alfredo Navarro | ||||||
| 27 | File:AlfredoBaldomir (cropped).jpg | Alfredo Baldomir (1884–1948) |
19 June 1938 | 21 February 1942 | Colorado | 1938 | 27th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | César Charlone | |
| – | 21 February 1942 | 1 March 1943 | — | De facto president following a self-coup. | |||||
| 28 | File:Presidente Juan José Amézaga.jpg | Juan José de Amézaga (1881–1956) |
1 March 1943 | 1 March 1947 | Colorado | 1942 | 28th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Alberto Guani | |
| 29 | File:Tomás Berreta leyendo (cropped).jpg | Tomás Berreta (1875–1947) |
1 March 1947 | 2 August 1947 | Colorado | 1946 | 29th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. Died in office. | Luis Batlle Berres | |
| 30 | File:Lbberres23.jpg | Luis Batlle Berres (1897–1964) |
2 August 1947 | 1 March 1951 | Colorado | — | 30th Constitutional President. Vice-president under Berreta, assumed the presidency after his death. | Alfeo Brum | |
| 31 | File:Andrés Martínez Trueba.jpg | Andrés Martínez Trueba (1884–1959) |
1 March 1951 | 1 March 1952 | Colorado | 1950 | 31st Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. The post of President was replaced by the National Council of Government. | ||
| 1 | File:Coat of arms of Uruguay.svg | National Council of Government 1952–1955 | 1 March 1952 | 1 March 1955 | Colorado | — | The National Council of Government was headed by a President for the remaining of the 1951–1955 period:
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Post abolished | |
| 2 | File:Coat of arms of Uruguay.svg | National Council of Government 1955–1959 | 1 March 1955 | 1 March 1959 | Colorado | 1954 | The National Council of Government was headed by a President rotating every year:
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| 3 | File:Coat of arms of Uruguay.svg | National Council of Government 1959–1963 | 1 March 1959 | 1 March 1963 | National | 1958 | The National Council of Government was headed by a President rotating every year:
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| 4 | File:Coat of arms of Uruguay.svg | National Council of Government 1963–67 | 1 March 1963 | 1 March 1967 | National | 1962 | The National Council of Government was headed by a President rotating every year:
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| 32 | File:Óscar Gestido (cropped).png | Óscar Diego Gestido (1901–1967) |
1 March 1967 | 6 December 1967 | Colorado | 1966 | 32nd Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. Died in office. | Jorge Pacheco Areco | |
| 33 | File:Jorge Pacheco Areco con la banda presidencial en 1972 (cropped).tif | Jorge Pacheco Areco (1920–1998) |
6 December 1967 | 1 March 1972 | Colorado | — | 33rd Constitutional President. Vice-president under Gestido, assumed the presidency after his death. | Alberto Abdala | |
| 34 | File:Juan María Bordaberry con la banda presidencial (cropped).tif | Juan María Bordaberry (1928–2011) |
1 March 1972 | 27 June 1973 | Colorado | 1971 | 34th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Jorge Sapelli | |
| ·5· | 27 June 1973 | 12 June 1976 | — | 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, start of the dictatorship between 1973 and 1985. Ousted from office. | Vacant | ||||
| ·6· | Alberto Demicheli (1896–1980) |
12 June 1976 | 1 September 1976 | Colorado | — | Appointed by the Armed Forces. Ousted from office. | |||
| ·7· | File:Aparicio Méndez en la década de 1960 (cropped).jpg | Aparicio Méndez (1904–1988) |
1 September 1976 | 1 September 1981 | National | — | Appointed by the Armed Forces for a term of 5 years. | ||
| ·8· | File:Goyo uruguay.jpg | Gregorio Álvarez (1925–2016) |
1 September 1981 | 12 February 1985 | Military | — | Appointed by the Armed Forces. Resigned. | ||
| :1: | File:Rafael Addiego Bruno (2).jpg | Rafael Addiego (1923–2014) |
12 February 1985 | 1 March 1985 | Civic Union | — | President of the Supreme Court, appointed by the Armed Forces. | ||
| 35 | File:Presidente Sanguinetti (cropped).jpg | Julio María Sanguinetti (born 1936) |
1 March 1985 | 1 March 1990 | Colorado | 1984 | 35th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. First democratic President after the 1973-1985 dictatorship. | Enrique Tarigo | |
| 36 | Luis Alberto Lacalle (born 1941) |
1 March 1990 | 1 March 1995 | National | 1989 | 36th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Gonzalo Aguirre Ramírez | ||
| 37 | File:PresidenteSanguinettiCropped.jpg | Julio María Sanguinetti (born 1936) |
1 March 1995 | 1 March 2000 | Colorado | 1994 | 37th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Hugo Batalla | |
| Hugo Fernández Faingold | |||||||||
| 38 | File:Jorge Batlle.jpg | Jorge Batlle (1927–2016) |
1 March 2000 | 1 March 2005 | Colorado | 1999 | 38th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Luis Antonio Hierro López | |
| 39 | File:Tabaré26022007.jpg | Tabaré Vázquez (1940–2020) |
1 March 2005 | 1 March 2010 | Broad Front | 2004 | 39th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Rodolfo Nin Novoa | |
| 40 | File:Mujica.jpg | José Mujica (born 1935) |
1 March 2010 | 1 March 2015 | Broad Front | 2009 | 40th Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Danilo Astori | |
| 41 | File:Visita Oficial del Presidente de Uruguay 3 (cropped).jpg | Tabaré Vázquez (1940–2020) |
1 March 2015 | 1 March 2020 | Broad Front | 2014 | 41st Constitutional President, elected by the citizens.[3] | Raúl Sendic Rodríguez | |
| Lucía Topolansky | |||||||||
| 42 | File:01032020 Cerimônia de Transmissão de Mandato Presidencial - 49606836182.jpg | Luis Lacalle Pou (born 1973) |
1 March 2020 | Incumbent (Term ends on 1 March 2025) |
National | 2019 | 42nd Constitutional President, elected by the citizens.[4] | Beatriz Argimón | |
| 43 | File:Yamandú Orsi perfil (cropped).png | Yamandú Orsi (born 1967) |
Taking office: 1 March 2025 |
Broad Front | 2024 | 43rd Constitutional President, elected by the citizens. | Carolina Cosse | ||
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References[change]
- ↑ Reyes Abadie & Vázquez Romero 1986, pp. 590–595 § Los hechos políticos durante el Gobierno Rondeau.
- ↑ Reyes Abadie & Vázquez Romero 1986, pp. 595–599 § Lavalleja sustituye a Rondeau: reacción de Rivera.
- ↑ Castaldi, Malena; Farat, Esteban (2015-03-02). "Tabaré Vázquez promete aprovechar la "segunda oportunidad" en Uruguay". Reuters (in español). Montevideo. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ↑ Martínez, Magdalena (2020-03-02). "Luis Lacalle Pou consuma el final de 15 años de Gobiernos de izquierda en Uruguay". El País (de Madrid) (in español). Montevideo. Retrieved 2023-06-27.