List of Presidents of Chile

Unlike many of the other countries in the region, Chile has a long history of democratic Presidents. The President of Chile is both the chief of state and the chief of goverment.

Here is the full list of them:

• Manuel Blanco Encalda 1826
• Agustín Eyzaguirre 1826 - 1827
• Ramón Freire y Serrano 1827
• Francisco Antonio Pinto Díaz 1827 - 1829
• José Tomás Ovalle 1830 - 1831
• José Joaquín Prieto Vial 1831 - 1841
• Manuel Bulnes Prieto 1841 - 1851
• Manuel Montt Torres 1851 - 1861
• José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano 1861 - 1871
• Federico Errázuriz Zañartu 1871 - 1876
• Anibal Pinto Garmendia 1876 - 1881
• Domingo Santa María 1881 - 1886
• José Manuel Balmaceda 1886 - 1891
• Jorge Montt Alvarez 1891 - 1896
• Federico Errázuriz Echaurren 1896 - 1901
• Germán Riesco Errázuriz 1901 - 1906
• Pedro Montt Montt 1906 - 1910
• Ramón Barros Luco 1910 - 1915
• Juan Luis Sanfuentes 1915 - 1920
• Arturo Alessandri Palma 1920 - 1925
• Luis Barros Borgoño 1925
• Emiliano Figueroa Larraín 1925 - 1927
• Carlos Ibáñez del Campo 1927 - 1931
• Juan Esteban Montero 1931 - 1932
• Arturo Alessandri Palma 1932-1938
• Pedro Aguirre Cerda 1938 - 1941
• Jerónimo Méndez 1941 - 1942 (interin)
• Juan Antonio Ríos 1942 - 1946
• Gabriel González Videla 1946 - 1952
• Carlos Ibañez del Campo 1952 - 1958
• Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez 1958 - 1964
• Eduardo Frei Montalva 1964 - 1970
• Salvador Allende Gossens 1970 - 1973
• Augusto Pinochet Ugarte 1973 - 1990 (came to power in a coup d'etat)
• Patricio Aylwin Azócar 1990 - 1994
• Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle 1994 - 2000
• Ricardo Lagos Escobar 2000 - 2006 (end of the period)

Before the presidental instition - at the begining of the Republican and indepedent state), there was the figure of Director Supremo (Supreme Director). There were XX of them:

• Bernardo O´Higgins Riquelme 1820-1823
• Agustín Manuel de Eyzaguirre y Arechavala 1823-1823
• Plenipotenciary Congress: Juan Egaña Risco, Manuel Fernando Vásquez de Novoa y López de Artigas, Manuel Antonio González Valenzuela 1823
• Ramón Freire Serrano 1823
• Supreme Junta of diputados: Mariano Egaña Fabres, Santiago Fernández y González Barriga, Diego José Benavente y García de Bustamante. 1823
• Ramón Freire Serrano 1826

People who temporary fulfilled the role of President

• Francisco R. Vicuña (1829)
• Francisco Ruiz Tagle (1830)
• F. Errázuriz (1831)
• E. Fernández Albano (1910)
• E. Figueroa (1910)
• Luis Altamirano (1924-1925)
• Emiliano Bello C (1925)
• Pedro Opazo (1931)
• Manuel Trucco (1931)
• Carlos Dávila (1932)
• Guillermo Blanche (1932)
• Abraham Oyanedel (1932)
• Alfredo Duhalde (1946)