President Tenure Party Federal Republic of Central America Manuel Aguilar Chacón 1824 November – 1825 January Agustín Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal 1824 September – November Cecilio Umaña Fallas 1825 April – May Manuel Alvarado Hidalgo 1825 January – February Manuel Alvarado Alvarado 1825 February – April Pedro Zeledón Mora 1825 June – November Félix Romero Castro 1825 November – December José María Arias Zamora 1826 January – February Joaquín Rivas Ramírez 1826 March – May Francisco Javier Alfaro Zamora 1826 May – August José Antonio Castro Ramírez 1827 May – June Braulio Carrillo Colina 1828 March José Joaquín Flores Pérez 1828 September Manuel María Peralta del Corral 1829 November – 1830 February Luciano Alfaro Arias 1830 May – June José María Esquivel Azofeifa 1830 May – June Rafael Francisco Osejo 1831 January – April José Gabriel Campo Guerrero 1831 July – August José Nereo Fonseca González 1831 May – June José Francisco Peralta del Corral 1832 setiembre – December José Andrés Rivera 1834 March – April Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava 1836 August – December Francisco Javier Sáenz Ulloa 1836 January – February Miguel Alfaro Saborío 1837 January – February José Julián Blanco Zamora 1837 March – April Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla 1837 March – April Félix Sancho Alvarado 1837 September – 1838 May Free State of Costa Rica Juan Mora Fernández 1843 August – December Juan de los Santos Madriz Cervantes 1843 June – August Félix Sancho Alvarado 1844 January – May Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo 1844 July – November José María Castro Madriz 1845 November 1844 – December Juan Rafael Reyes Frutos 1846 December – 1846 February Manuel José Carazo Bonilla 1846 March – June Nazario Toledo 1846 September – 1847 May José María Alfaro Zamora 1847 May – September First Costa Rican Republic Juan Rafael Mora Porras 1847 November – 1848 June Manuel José Carazo Bonilla 1848 September – 1849 December Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla 1850 January – 1856 May Rafael García-Escalante Nava 1857 October – 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