List of presidents of the Dominican Republic
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The President of the Dominican Republic is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic. This page contains a list (modified from Moya Pons[1]) of presidents of the Dominican Republic.
President of the Dominican Republic | |
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Style | His Excellency |
Residence | National Palace, Santo Domingo |
Term length | Four years, renewable once consecutively |
Inaugural holder | Pedro Santana |
Formation | 13 November 1844 |
Website | presidencia.gob.do |
First Republic, 1844–1861
change- Pedro Santana: 13 November 1844 – 4 August 1848
- Council of Secretaries of State: 4 August – 8 September 1848
- Manuel Jimenes: 8 September 1848 – 29 May 1849
- Pedro Santana: 30 May – 23 September 1849
- Buenaventura Báez: 24 September 1849 – 15 February 1853
- Pedro Santana: 15 February 1853 – 26 May 1856
- Manuel de Regla Mota: 26 May – 8 October 1856
- Buenaventura Báez: 8 October 1856 – 13 June 1858
- José Desiderio Valverde: 13 June – 28 July 1858
- Pedro Santana: 28 July 1858 – 18 March 1861
Annexation to Spain (Governors), 1861–1865
change- Pedro Santana: 18 March 1861 – 20 July 1862
- Felipe Ribero y Lemoine: 20 July 1862 – 22 October 1863
- Carlos de Vargas y Cerveto: 22 October 1863 – 30 March 1864
- José de la Gándara y Navarro: 31 March 1864 – 11 July 1865
Restauration War, 1863–1865
change- José Antonio Salcedo: 14 September 1863 – 10 October 1864
- Gaspar Polanco: 10 October 1864 – 23 January 1865
- Benigno Filomeno de Rojas: 24 January – 24 March 1865
Second Republic, 1865–1916
change- Pedro Antonio Pimentel: 25 March – 4 August 1865
- José María Cabral: 4 August – 15 November 1865
- Pedro Guillermo: 15 November – 8 December 1865
- Buenaventura Báez: 8 December 1865 – 29 May 1866
- Triumvirate: 29 May – 22 August 1866
- José María Cabral: 22 August 1866 – 31 January 1868
- Manuel Altagracia Cáceres: 31 January – 13 February 1868
- Council of Generals: 13 February – 2 May 1868
- Buenaventura Báez: 2 May 1868 – 2 January 1874
- Ignacio María González: 2 January – 22 January 1874
- Generals-in-Charge:: 22 January – 6 April 1874
- Ignacio María González: 6 April 1874 – 23 February 1876
- Council of Secretaries of State: 23 February – 29 April 1876
- Ulises Francisco Espaillat: 29 April – 5 October 1876
- Governing Council: 5 October – 11 November 1876
- Ignacio María González: 11 November – 9 December 1876
- Marcos Antonio Cabral: 10 – 26 December 1876
- Buenaventura Báez: 26 December 1876 – 2 March 1878
- Cesáreo Guillermo: 5 March – 6 July 1878
- Ignacio María González: 6 July – 2 September 1878
- Jacinto de Castro: 7 – 29 September 1878
- Council of Secretaries of State: 30 September 1878 – 27 February 1879
- Cesáreo Guillermo: 27 February – 6 December 1879
- Gregorio Luperón: 6 December 1879 – 1 September 1880
- Fernando Arturo de Meriño: 1 September 1880 – 1 September 1882
- Ulises Heureaux: 1 September 1882 – 1 September 1884
- Francisco Gregorio Billini: 1 September 1884 – 16 May 1885
- Alejandro Woss y Gil: 16 May 1885 – 6 January 1887
- Ulises Heureaux: 6 January 1887 – 26 July 1899
- Wenceslao Figuereo: 26 July – 30 August 1899
- Horacio Vásquez: 4 September – 15 November 1899
- Juan Isidro Jimenes: 15 November 1899 – 2 May 1902
- Horacio Vásquez: 26 April 1902 – 23 April 1903
- Alejandro Woss y Gil: 23 April – 24 November 1903
- Carlos F. Morales Languasco: 24 October 1903 – 12 January 1906
- Ramón Cáceres: 12 January 1906 – 19 November 1911
- Eladio Victoria: 5 December 1911 – 30 November 1912
- Adolfo Alejandro Nouel: 1 December 1912 – 13 April 1913
- José Bordas Valdés: 14 April 1913 – 27 August 1914
- Ramón Báez: 28 August – 5 December 1914
- Juan Isidro Jimenes: 5 December 1914 – 7 May 1916
- Council of Secretaries of State: 7 May – 31 July 1916
- Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal: 31 July – 29 November 1916
U.S. occupation (Military Governors), 1916–1922
change- Harry Shepard Knapp: 29 November 1916 – 18 November 1918
- Ben Hebard Fuller: 18 November 1918 – 25 February 1919
- Thomas Snowden: 25 February 1919 – 3 June 1921
- Samuel Robison: 3 June 1921 – 21 October 1922
Third Republic, 1922–1965
changePortrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party |
Notes | ||||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
Horacio Vásquez (1860–1936) |
1924 | 12 July 1924 | 3 March 1930 | 5 years, 234 days | Red | Ousted from office by a coup d'état. | |||
Rafael Estrella Ureña (1889–1945) |
— | 3 March 1930 | 16 August 1930 | 166 days | Republican | Minister of Interior and Police under Horacio Vásquez, assumed the presidency after coup d'état. Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo. | |||
Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) |
1930 | 16 August 1930 | 16 August 1934 | 8 years | Confederation of Parties | ||||
1934 | 16 August 1934 | 16 August 1938 | PD | ||||||
Jacinto Peynado (1878–1940) |
1938 | 16 August 1938 | 7 March 1940 | 1 year, 204 days | PD | Died in office. Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo. | |||
Manuel de Jesús Troncoso (1878–1955) |
— | 7 March 1940 | 18 May 1942 | 2 years, 72 days | PD | Vice-president under Jacinto Peynado, assumed the presidency after his death. Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo. | |||
Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) |
1942 | 18 May 1942 | 16 August 1947 | 10 years, 90 days | PD | Finished the presidential term of Jacinto Peynado ending on 16 August 1942. | |||
1947 | 16 August 1947 | 16 August 1952 | |||||||
Héctor Trujillo (1908–2002) |
— | 1 March 1951 | 1 October 1951 | 9 years, 155 days | PD | Acting president. | |||
1952 | 16 August 1952 | 16 August 1957 | Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo. | ||||||
1957 | 16 August 1957 | 3 August 1960 | Resigned. Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo. | ||||||
Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
— | 3 August 1960 | 31 December 1961 | 1 year, 150 days | PD | Vice-president under Héctor Trujillo, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo until the assassination of Trujillo on 30 May 1961. Resigned. | |||
Council of State | — | 1 January 1962 | 16 January 1962 | 1 year, 15 days | — | Members: Joaquín Balaguer (President), Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (Vice-president), Eduardo Read Barreras (Second Vice-president), Eliseo Pérez Sánchez, Nicolás Pichardo, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera. Ousted from office by a coup d'état. | |||
Civic-Military Junta | — | 16 January 1962 | 18 January 1962 | 2 days | Military | Members: Huberto Bogaert (President), Armando Óscar Pacheco, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Enrique Valdez Vidaurre, Wilfredo Medina Natalio, Neit Rafael Nivar Seijas. | |||
Council of State | — | 18 January 1962 | 27 February 1963 | 1 year, 40 days | — | Members: Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (President), Eduardo Read Barreras, Eliseo Pérez Sánchez, Nicolás Pichardo, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Donald Reid Cabral. | |||
Juan Bosch (1909–2001) |
1962 | 27 February 1963 | 25 September 1963 | 210 days | PRD | Ousted from office by a coup d'état. | |||
Víctor Elby Viñas Román (1925–2004) |
— | 25 September 1963 | 26 September 1963 | 1 day | Military | President of the Provisional Government Junta. | |||
Triumvirate | — | 26 September 1963 | 23 December 1963 | 88 days | Military | Members: Emilio de los Santos (President), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat, Ramón Tapia Espinal. | |||
Triumvirate | — | 23 December 1963 | 25 April 1965 | 1 year, 123 days | Military | Members: Donald Reid Cabral (President), Ramón Tapia Espinal (resigned on 8 April 1964), Ramón Cáceres Troncoso (since 8 April 1964), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat (resigned on 27 June 1964). Deposed during the Dominican Civil War. |
Fourth Republic, 1966-present
changePortrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party |
Notes | |||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
1966 | 1 July 1966 | 16 August 1970 | 12 years, 46 days | PRSC | |||
1970 | 16 August 1970 | 16 August 1974 | ||||||
1974 | 16 August 1974 | 16 August 1978 | ||||||
Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911–1982) |
1978 | 16 August 1978 | 4 July 1982 | 3 years, 322 days | PRD | Committed suicide. | ||
Jacobo Majluta Azar (1934–1996) |
— | 4 July 1982 | 16 August 1982 | 43 days | PRD | Vice-president under Antonio Guzmán, assumed the presidency after his suicide. | ||
Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926–2010) |
1982 | 16 August 1982 | 16 August 1986 | 4 years | PRD | |||
Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
1986 | 16 August 1986 | 16 August 1990 | 10 years | PRSC | |||
1990 | 16 August 1990 | 16 August 1994 | ||||||
1994 | 16 August 1994 | 16 August 1996 | After fraud charges in the elections, an agreement known as the Pact for Democracy (Pacto por la Democracia) was reached, which shortened the presidential term to two years. | |||||
Leonel Fernández (born 1953) |
1996 | 16 August 1996 | 16 August 2000 | 4 years | PLD | |||
Hipólito Mejía (born 1941) |
2000 | 16 August 2000 | 16 August 2004 | 4 years | PRD | |||
Leonel Fernández (born 1953) |
2004 | 16 August 2004 | 16 August 2008 | 8 years | PLD | |||
2008 | 16 August 2008 | 16 August 2012 | ||||||
Danilo Medina (born 1951) |
2012 | 16 August 2012 | 16 August 2016 | 11 years, 358 days | PLD | |||
2016 | 16 August 2016 | 16 August 2020 | ||||||
Luis Abinader (born 1967) |
2020 | 16 August 2020 | Incumbent | 3 years | PRM |
References
change- ↑ Moya Pons, Frank (1997). Manual de Historia Dominicana (in Spanish). Santiago, D.R.: UCMM. pp. 587–598.