President of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia

The president of the Chamber of Deputies is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the National Congress of Bolivia. The president is currently elected for a one-year term.

Below is a list of office-holders.

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
José Mariano Serrano	10 June 1825	6 October 1825	President of general assembly [1] [2] [3]
Casimiro Olañeta	25 May 1826	1826	[1] [4]
Matías Terrazas	1826	1826	[1]
Juan Manuel Mercado	1826	1826	[1]
Eusebio Gutiérrez	1826	December 1826	[1]
José María Pérez de Urdininea	December 1826	December 1826	[1] [5]
Mariano Guzmán	December 1826	August 1828 - ?	[1] [4] [6]
Crispin Díez de Medina	1828	1828 - ?	[1]
Narciso Dulón	?	? - 1831	[1]
Miguel María de Aguirre	24 June 1831	July 1831 - ?	[1] [7] [8]
Casimiro Olañeta	? - August 1831	August 1831 - ?	[7] [9]
José María Dalence	September 1831	1831 - ?	[9]
Mariano Enrique Calvo	?	1832	[1]
José Eustaquio Eguivar	1832	6 November 1832	[1] [10]
José Ballivián	? - October 1833	November 1834 - ?	[11] [9]
Manuel Estéban Ponce de León	?	?	[12]
José Lorenzo Maldonado	? - 1835	1835 - ?	[12] [13]
Fermín Eyzaguirre	?	?	[12]
Manuel Sánchez de Velasco	?	?	[12]
José Mariano Serrano	? - June 1839	October 1839	[7] [14]
José Maria Linares	October 1839	November 1839	[15]
Gregorio Reinolds	November 1839	November 1839 - ?	[16]
Manuel Fernando Bacaflor	? - October 1840	November 1840 - ?	[17]
Manuel Escobar	? - April 1843	April 1843	[1]
Manuel Hermenegildo Guerra	April 1843	June 1843	[1] President of the national convention
José Lorenzo Maldonado	? - 1844	1845 - ?	[18]
Rafael Bustillos	?	October 1846	[19] [9]
Mariano Ballivián	October 1846	1847 - ?	[20] [21] [9]
Manuel de la Cruz Méndez	? - 1847	1847 - ?	[22]
José María Linares	? - September 1848	September 1848 - ?	[22] [23]
Manuel Macedonio Salinas	?	?	[22]
Hilarión Fernandez	? - October 1848	October 1848 - ?	[24]
Juan Crisóstomo Unzueta	? - October 1850	October 1850 - ?	[25] [12]
Melchor Urquidi	July 1851	August 1851	President of the national convention [23]
Juan de la Cruz Cisneros	August 1851	November 1851	President of the national convention [26]
Emeterio Villamil	1857	1861	[27]
Manuel José Cortés	? - June 1861	June 1861 - ?	[22] [28]
José Manuel de la Reza	? - July 1861	July 1861 - ?	[29]
Adolfo Ballivián	? - August 1861	August 1861 - ?	[22] [28]
Manuel Laguna	?	?	[22]
Policarpo Eyzaguirre	? - 1863	1863	[22] [9]
José Vicente Dorado	1863	1863 - ?	[9]
Lucas Mendoza de La Tapia	? - August 1864	October 1864	[22] [30]
Agustín Aspiazu	October 1864	1868 - ?	[22] [30]
Manuel José Rivera	August 1868	October 1868	[7]
José Raimundo Taborga	? - October 1868	September 1870 - ?	[22] [31] [32]
Ricardo Mujía	?	?	[22]
Tomás Frías Ametller	? - June 1871	July 1871 - ?	President of the constituent assembly [33]
Agustín Aspiazu	? - August 1871	September 1871 - ?	President of the constituent assembly [34]
Mariano Reyes Cardona	? - October 1871	October 1871 - ?	President of the constituent assembly [35]
José Manuel del Carpio	? - August 1872	September 1872	[36]
Mariano Baptista	September 1872	October 1872	[22] [37]
Tomás Frías Ametller	October 1872	November 1872	[22] [38]
Juan de Dios Bosque	November 1872	December 1872	[22] [9] [39]
José Manuel Carpio	?	1873	[22]
Daniel Calvo Gómez	? - May 1873	May 1873	[22] [40]
José Manuel Rendon	May 1873	June 1873 - ?	[22] [41]
Genaro Palazuelos	? - October 1873	November 1873 - ?	[22]
Belisario Salínas	? - August 1874	September 1874 - ?	[42]
Agustín Aspiazu	? - September 1874	October 1874	[43]
Martín Lanza	October 1874	November 1874	[44] [22]
Serapio Reyes Ortiz	November 1874	December 1874 - ?	[9]
Belisario Salinas	July 1877	November 1877	[22]
Mariano Reyes Cardona	November 1877	December 1877 - ?	[22]
Antonio Quijarro	? - February 1878	February 1878 - ?	[22]
Ricardo José Bustamante	? - July 1878	July 1878 - ?	[22] [45]
Rudecindo Carvajal	May 1880	June 1880 - ?	[22] President of the national convention
Nataniel Aguirre	? - October 1880	October 1880	[22] President of the national convention
Mariano Baptista	October 1880	August 1881	President of the national convention [9]
Juan Francisco Velarde	August 1882	August 1883	[46]
Belisario Boeto	August 1883	August 1884	[47]
Isaac Tamayo	August 1884	August 1886	[9]
Jenaro Sanjinés	August 1886	August 1888	[9]
Manuel José Fernandez	August 1888	August 1889	[9]
Jenaro Sanjinés	August 1889	August 1890
Daniel G. Quiroga	August 1890	August 1891	[9]
Lisandro Quiroga	August 1891	August 1892	[9]
Joaquín Eusebio Herrero	August 1892	August 1894	[48] [9]
Sabino Pinilla Vargas	August 1894	August 1895	[49] [9]
Federico Zuazo	August 1895	August 1896	[9]
José Santos Machicado	August 1896	August 1898	[9]
José María Urdininea	August 1898	November 1898
Pastor Sainz Cossío	October 1899	May 1900	President of the national convention [50]
Belisario Salinas	May 1900	August 1900	President of the national convention [51]
Luis Sainz	August 1900	August 1901	[52]
Carlos V. Romero	August 1901	August 1902
Venancio Jiménez	August 1902	August 1903	[3]
Benedicto Goytia	August 1903	August 1904	[9]
José Santos Quinteros	August 1904	August 1905	[53] [9]
Manuel Vergara	August 1905	October 1905	[54]
Benjamin Calderón	October 1905	August 1906	[55]
Constantino Morales	August 1906	November 1906	[56]
Rosendo Villalobos	November 1906	August 1907	[57]
Rafael Berthin	August 1907	December 1907	[58]
C. Flores Quintela	December 1907	August 1908	[59]
Angel Díez de Medina	August 1908	October 1908	[60]
Isaac Araníbar	October 1908	August 1909	[61]
Belisario Velasco V.	August 1909	December 1909	[62]
Adolfo Ortega	December 1909	February 1910	[63]
Julio Calvo	August 1910	1910 - ?
José Carrasco Torrico	? - August 1910	September 1911 - ?	[9] [64]
Ricardo Cortés	? - October 1911	November 1911 - ?	[9]
José Antezana	? - 1912	1912 - ?	[9]
José Carrasco Torrico	? - August 1913	August 1913 - ?	[65]
Carlos Calvo Calbimontes	1914	1915	[66]
José Gutiérrez Guerra	? - August 1915	November 1915 - ?	[67]
Plácido Sánchez Balcázar	? - 1916	December 1916 - ?	[9]
José Luis Tejada Sorzano	? - August 1917	December 1917 - ?	[9]
Abdón Saavedra	August 1918	August 1919	[68]
Carlos Calvo Calbimontes	August 1919	February 1920 - ?	[66] [9] [69]
José María Escalier	December 1920	June 1921	President of the national convention [51]
Manuel Rigoberto Paredes Iturri	November 1921	1923	[3]
Pedro Gutiérrez	1923	1924
David Alvéstegui	? - November 1924	1925	[70]
Flavio Abastoflor	? - October 1925	March 1926 - ?	[71]
Héctor Suárez Ramos	1926	1927
Constantino Carrión Valencia	1927	1928	[72]
Daniel Bilbao Rioja	1928	August 1929 - ?	[3] [73]
Carlos Salinas Aramayo	?	17 December 1929	[3]
Franz Tamayo	February 1931	August 1931	[74] [9]
Gustavo Ríos Bridoux	August 1931	August 1932	[75] [76] [9]
Enrique González Duarte	August 1932	August 1933
Franz Tamayo	August 1933	March 1935	[77] [78] [9]
José Barrero	March 1935	August 1935	[79] [80]
Fidel Anze Soria	August 1935	May 1936	[81]
Renato Riverin	May 1938	October 1938	President of the national convention [51]
Rafael de Ugarte	April 1940	August 1941	[82] [83] [9]
Jorge Aráoz Campero	August 1941	August 1942	[9]
Demetrio Canelas	August 1942	August 1943	[84] [9]
Enrique Baldivieso	August 1943	December 1943	[85] [9] [86]
Franz Tamayo	August 1944	December 1944	President of the national convention [51] [9]
Julián Montellano	July 1945	October 1945	President of the constitutional assembly [51] [9]
José Antonio Arze	March 1947	August 1947	[87] [9]
Antonio Landívar Ribera	August 1947	December 1948	[88] [89]
Alberto Salinas López	December 1948	August 1949	[90]
Luis Ponce Lozada	August 1949	August 1950	[91] [9]
Lucio Lanza Solares	August 1950	November 1950	[9] [92]
Renán Castrillo Justiniano	August 1956	August 1957	[9] [93]
Juan Sanjinés Ovando	August 1957	May 1958 - ?	[9] [94]
Germán Quiroga Galdo	August 1958	August 1959	[95]
Juan Sanjinés Ovando	? - September 1959	December 1959 - ?	[96] [9]
Ernesto Ayala Mercado	August 1960	August 1961	[97] [98]
Edil Sandoval Morón	August 1961	August 1962
Jorge Flores Arías	August 1962	August 1963	[99]
Juan Sanjinés Ovando	August 1963	November 1964	[100]
Jorge Ríos Gamarra	August 1966	August 1968
Franz Ondarza Linares	August 1968	August 1969
Jorge Ríos Gamarra	August 1969	September 1969
Lidia Gueiler Tejada	August 1979	November 1979
José Zegarra Cerruto	November 1979	July 1980
Samuel Gallardo Lozada	October 1982	August 1983	[101]
Gualberto Claure Ortuño	August 1983	August 1984	[101]
Samuel Gallardo Lozada	August 1984	August 1985	[101]
Gastón Encinas Valverde	August 1985	August 1986	[101]
Willy Vargas Vacaflor	August 1986	August 1988	[101]
Walter Soriano Lea Plaza	August 1988	August 1989	[101]
Fernando Kieffer Guzmán	August 1989	August 1991	[101]
Gastón Encinas Valverde	August 1991	August 1993	[101]
Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez	August 1993	August 1994	[101]
Javier Campero Paz	August 1994	August 1995	[101]
Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez	August 1995	August 1996	[101]
Georg Prestel Kern	August 1996	August 1997	[101]
Hormando Vaca Diez	August 1997	August 1998	[101]
Hugo Arturo Carvajal Donoso	August 1998	August 2000	[101]
Jaalil Melgar Mustafá	August 2000	August 2001	[101]
Luis Vásquez Villamor	August 2001	August 2002	[101]
Guido Áñez Moscoso	August 2002	August 2003	[101]
Oscar Arrien Sandoval	August 2003	August 2004	[101]
Mario Cossío Cortéz	August 2004	August 2005	[101]
Norah Soruco de Salvatierra	August 2005	January 2006	[101]
Edmundo Novillo Aguilar	January 2006	January 2010	[101]
Héctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta	January 2010	January 2012	[102]
Rebeca Delgado	January 2012	January 2013	[102]
Betty Tejada	January 2013	January 2014	[103]
Marcelo Elío Chávez	January 2014	January 2015
Gabriela Montaño	21 January 2015	18 January 2019	[104] [105]
Víctor Borda	18 January 2019	14 November 2019	[104] [106]
Sergio Choque	14 November 2019	3 November 2020	[104] [107]
Freddy Mamani Laura	3 November 2020	4 November 2022	[104]
Jerges Mercado Suárez	4 November 2022	3 November 2023	[104]
Israel Huaytari Martínez	3 November 2023	29 October 2024	[104]
Omar Yujra	29 October 2024	Incumbent	[108]

See also

• President of the Senate of Bolivia

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