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The President of Bolivia is the head of state of Bolivia. According to the current constitution president is elected by popular vote for one single non-renewable five year term. If none of the candidates receive half of the votes, president is chosen by vote in Senate between the two candidates, who received most votes in popular election.

1 Presidents
2 Provisional Presidents
3 Historical reputation
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Presidents

The following table contains a list of the individuals who have served as president 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
6th	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	January 1, 1829	May 24, 1829	second term
7th	Andrés de Santa Cruz y Calahumana	May 24, 1829	February 17, 1839
8th	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	February 22, 1839	June 10, 1841	third term
9th	Sebastián Ágreda	June 10, 1841	July 9, 1841
10th	Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar	July 9, 1841	September 22, 1841
11th	José Ballivián Segurola	September 27, 1841	December 23, 1847
12th	Eusebio Guilarte Vera	December 23, 1847	January 2, 1848
13th	José Miguel de Velasco Franco	January 18, 1848	December 6, 1848	fourth term
14th	Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez	December 6, 1848	August 15, 1855
15th	Jorge Córdova	August 15, 1855	September 9, 1857
16th	José María Linares Lizarazu	September 9, 1857	January 14, 1861
17th	José María Achá Valiente	May 4, 1861	December 28, 1864
18th	Mariano Melgarejo Valencia	December 28, 1864	January 15, 1871
19th	Agustín Morales Hernández	January 15, 1871	November 27, 1872
20th	Tomás Frías Ametller	November 28, 1872	May 9, 1873	first term
21st	Adolfo Ballivián Coll	May 9, 1873	January 31, 1874
22nd	Tomás Frías Ametller	January 31, 1874	May 4, 1876	second term
23rd	Hilarión Daza Groselle	May 4, 1876	December 28, 1879
24th	Narciso Campero Leyes	January 19, 1880	September 4, 1884
25th	Gregorio Pacheco Leyes	September 4, 1884	August 15, 1888
26th	Aniceto Arce Ruiz	August 15, 1888	August 11, 1892
27th	Mariano Baptista Caserta	August 11, 1892	August 19, 1896
28th	Severo Fernández Alonso Caballero	August 19, 1896	April 12, 1899
29th	José Manuel Pando Solares	October 25, 1899	August 14, 1904
30th	Ismael Montes Gamboa	August 14, 1904	August 12, 1909	first term
31st	Eliodoro Villazón Montaño	August 12, 1909	August 14, 1913
32nd	Ismael Montes Gamboa	August 14, 1913	August 15, 1917	second term
33rd	José Gutiérrez Guerra	August 15, 1917	July 12, 1920
34th	Bautista Saavedra Mallea	January 28, 1921	September 3, 1925
35th	Felipe Segundo Guzmán	September 3, 1925	January 10, 1926
36th	Hernando Siles Reyes	January 10, 1926	May 28, 1930
37th	Carlos Blanco Galindo	June 28, 1930	March 5, 1931
38th	Daniel Salamanca Urey	March 5, 1931	December 1, 1934
39th	José Luis Tejada Sorzano	December 1, 1934	May 16, 1936
40th	David Toro Ruilova	May 22, 1936	July 13, 1937
41st	Germán Busch Becerra	July 13, 1937	August 23, 1939
42nd	Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga	August 23, 1939	April 15, 1940
43rd	Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo	April 15, 1940	December 20, 1943
44th	Gualberto Villarroel López	December 20, 1943	July 21, 1946
45th	Néstor Guillén Olmos	July 21, 1946	August 17, 1946
46th	Tomás Monje Gutiérrez	August 17, 1946	March 10, 1947
47th	Enrique Hertzog Garaizabal	March 10, 1947	October 22, 1949
48th	Mamerto Urriolagoitia Harriague	October 24, 1949	May 16, 1951
49th	Hugo Ballivián Rojas	May 16, 1951	April 11, 1952
50th	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	April 15, 1952	August 6, 1956	first term
51st	Hernán Siles Zuazo	August 6, 1956	August 6, 1960	first term
52nd	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6, 1960	August 6, 1964	second term
53rd	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6, 1964	November 4, 1964	third term
54th	René Barrientos Ortuño	November 5, 1964	May 26, 1965	first term
55th	René Barrientos Ortuño	May 26, 1965	January 2, 1966	second term
56th	Alfredo Ovando Candía	May 26, 1965	January 2, 1966	first term
57th	Alfredo Ovando Candía	January 2, 1966	August 6, 1966	second term
58th	René Barrientos Ortuño	August 6, 1966	April 27, 1969	third term
59th	Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas	April 27, 1969	September 26, 1969
60th	Alfredo Ovando Candía	September 26, 1969	October 6, 1970	third term
61st	Juan José Torres Gonzáles	October 7, 1970	August 21, 1971
62nd	Hugo Banzer Suárez	August 21, 1971	July 21, 1978	first term
63rd	Juan Pereda Asbún	July 21, 1978	November 24, 1978
64th	David Padilla Arancibia	November 24, 1978	August 8, 1979
65th	Wálter Guevara Arze	August 8, 1979	November 1, 1979
66th	Alberto Natusch Busch	November 1, 1979	November 16, 1979
67th	Lidia Gueiler Tejada	November 16, 1979	July 17, 1980
68th	Luis García Meza Tejada	July 17, 1980	August 4, 1981
69th	Celso Torrelio Villa	September 4, 1981	July 21, 1982
70th	Guido Vildoso Calderón	July 21, 1982	October 10, 1982
71st	Hernán Siles Zuazo	October 10, 1982	August 6, 1985	second term
72nd	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	August 6, 1985	August 6, 1989	fourth term
73rd	Jaime Paz Zamora	August 6, 1989	August 6, 1993
74th	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	August 6, 1993	August 6, 1997	first term
75th	Hugo Banzer Suárez	August 6, 1997	August 7, 2001	second term
76th	Jorge Quiroga Ramírez	August 7, 2001	August 6, 2002
77th	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	August 6, 2002	October 17, 2003	second term
78th	Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert	October 17, 2003	June 6, 2005
79th	Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé	June 9, 2005	January 22, 2006
80th	Juan Evo Morales Ayma	January 22, 2006	present

[edit] 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

[edit] Historical reputation

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.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Gallery of Presidents of Bolivia

v • d • e Presidents of South America

Sovereign states	Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama¹ · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago¹ · Uruguay · Venezuela

Dependencies	Aruba¹ / Netherlands Antilles¹ (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) · French Guiana (France)

¹ Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America).