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 presidential institution (at the beginning of the Republican and independent 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
• Plenipotentiary 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)