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The President of the Argentine Nation (Spanish: Presidente de la Nación Argentina), usually known as the President of Argentina, is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under the national Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces.
The current head of state is President Mauricio Macri, who took office on 10 December 2015.

Presidents (1861–present)

Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of office

Political
party
Elections Notes
Bartolomé Mitre
(1821–1906)
12 December 1861 12 October 1862 Governor of State of Buenos Aires. Acting President of Argentina after the Battle of Pavón. Confirmed as Interim President by the National Congress in May 1862.
12 October 1862 12 October 1868 1862 Indirect elections. First president of the unified country. Waged the War of the Triple Alliance.
Liberal Party (PL)
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
(1811–1888)
12 October 1868 12 October 1874 1868 Indirect elections. Ended the War of the Triple Alliance.
Liberal Party (PL)
Nicolás Avellaneda
(1837–1885)
12 October 1874 12 October 1880 1874 Indirect elections.Federalization of Buenos Aires City in September 1880.
National Party (PN)
Julio Argentino Roca
(1843–1914)
12 October 1880 12 October 1886 1880 Indirect elections. First term.
National Autonomist Party (PAN)
Miguel Juárez Celman
(1844–1909)
12 October 1886 6 August 1890 1886 Indirect elections. Resigned following theRevolution of the Park.
PAN – PN
Carlos Pellegrini
(1846–1906)
6 August 1890 12 October 1892 Vice-president underJuárez Celman, assumed the presidency after his resignation.
PAN
Luis Sáenz Peña
(1822–1907)
12 October 1892 22 January 1895 1892 Indirect elections. Resigned.
PAN
José Evaristo Uriburu
(1831–1914)
22 January 1895 12 October 1898 Vice-president underSáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his resignation.
PAN
Julio Argentino Roca
(1843–1914)
12 October 1898 12 October 1904 1898 Indirect elections. Second term.
PAN
Manuel Quintana
(1835–1906)
12 October 1904 12 March 1906 1904 Indirect elections. Died in office.
PAN
José Figueroa Alcorta
(1860–1931)
25 January 1906 12 March 1906 Vice-president under Quintana. Acting president during his illness.
PAN
12 March 1906 12 October 1910 Vice-president under Quintana, assumed the presidency after his death.
PAN
Roque Sáenz Peña
(1851–1914)
12 October 1910 9 August 1914 1910 Indirect elections.PROMOTED theSáenz Peña law, which allowed secretuniversaland mandatory suffrage. Died in office.
PAN – Modernist
Victorino de la Plaza
(1840–1919)
9 August 1914 12 October 1916 Vice-president underSáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his death.
PAN
Hipólito Yrigoyen
(1852–1933)
12 October 1916 12 October 1922 1916 Free indirect elections. First president elected under the Sáenz Peña law. First term. Maintained neutrality during World War I.
Radical Civic Union (UCR)
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
(1868–1942)
12 October 1922 12 October 1928 1922 Free indirect elections.
UCR
Hipólito Yrigoyen
(1852–1933)
12 October 1928 6 September 1930 1928 Free indirect elections. Second term, ousted from office by a civico-military coup.
UCR
José Félix Uriburu
(1868–1932)
6 September 1930 20 February 1932 First coup d'etat in modern Argentine history. Beginning of theInfamous Decade.
Military
Agustín Pedro Justo
(1876–1943)
20 February 1932 20 February 1938 1931 Indirect elections held with fraud, the UCR was proscribed.[6]
Concordancia
Roberto María Ortiz
(1886–1942)
20 February 1938 27 June 1942 1937 Indirect elections held with fraud.[7] Resigned for health reasons, died one month later.
UCRA – Concordancia
Ramón Castillo
(1873–1944)
27 June 1942 4 June 1943 Vice-president underOrtiz, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Deposed in acoup d'état. End of theInfamous Decade.
PDN – Concordancia
Arturo Rawson
(1885–1952)
4 June 1943 7 June 1943 Coup d'état. Beginning of the Revolution of '43. Ousted from office.[45]
Military
Pedro Pablo Ramírez
(1884–1962)
7 June 1943 9 March 1944 Coup d'état. On 25 February 1944, Ramírez temporarily delegated powers to Edelmiro Farrell. Resigned.
Military
Edelmiro Julián Farrell
(1887–1980)
25 February 1944 9 March 1944 Acting president.
Military
9 March 1944 4 June 1946 Coup d'état. Declared war to the Axis powers. Called elections. End of the Revolution of '43.
Military
Juan Domingo Perón
(1895–1974)
4 June 1946 4 June 1952 1946 Free indirect elections. First term. Reelection enabled by theConstitution of 1949.
Laborista (Labour) Party
4 June 1952 20 September 1955 1951 Free direct elections. Second term. First election to allow women's suffrage. Victory with 62.49% of votes, highest victory in Argentine elections. Ousted from office by a military coup.
Justicialist Party (PJ)
20 September 1955 23 November 1955 During fighting between loyalist forces and rebels there was no clear president.
Eduardo Lonardi
(1896–1956)
23 September 1955 13 November 1955 Coup d'etat. Beginning of the Revolución Libertadora. Ousted from office.
Military
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
(1903–1970)
13 November 1955 1 May 1958 Coup d'état. The 1949 Constitution is repealed and the 1853 Constitutionis restored. Call for elections with Peronismproscribed. End of theRevolución Libertadora.
Military
Arturo Frondizi
(1908–1995)
1 May 1958 29 March 1962 1958 Indirect elections withPeronism proscribed. Ousted from office by a military coup.
UCRI
José María Guido
(1910–1975)
29 March 1962 12 October 1963 Provisional President of the Senate, acting as president since the removal of Frondizi, as the civil procedures to replace the deposed president were followed and Vice PresidentAlejandro Gómez had resigned in 1958.[49]
UCRI
Arturo Umberto Illia
(1900–1983)
12 October 1963 28 June 1966 1963 Indirect elections withPeronism proscribed. Ousted from office by a military coup.
UCRP
Military Junta 28 June 1966 29 June 1966  
Military
Juan Carlos Onganía
(1914–1995)
29 June 1966 8 June 1970 Coup d'état. First ruler of the Revolución Argentina. Ousted from office.
Military
Military Junta 8 June 1970 18 June 1970  
Military
Roberto M. Levingston
(1920–2015)
18 June 1970 23 May 1971 Coup d'état. Ousted from office.
Military
Alejandro A. Lanusse
(1918–1996)
26 May 1971 25 May 1973 Coup d'état. Last ruler of the Revolución Argentina. Called for elections.Peronism proscription lifted.
Military
Héctor José Cámpora
(1909–1980)
25 May 1973 13 July 1973 1973 Free direct elections. First Peronist president after the proscription. Cámpora annulled the proscription that remained specifically over Juan Perón, and resigned. The Vice President, Vicente Solano Lima, resigned with him.
PJ – FJL
Raúl Alberto Lastiri
(1915–1978)
13 July 1973 12 October 1973 Interim. President of theChamber of Deputies, assumed the presidency after Cámpora's and Solano Lima's resignations. Alejandro Díaz Bialet, President of the Senate and ahead ofLastiri in the succession line, was on a diplomatic mission in Africa at that time.[52]
PJ
Juan Domingo Perón
(1895–1974)
12 October 1973 1 July 1974 1973 Free direct elections. Third term. Died in office.
PJ
Isabel Martínez de Perón
(1931–)
1 July 1974 24 March 1976 Vice-president of Juan Perón, assumed the presidency after his death. First female president in the Americas. Ousted from office by a military coup.
PJ
Military Junta 24 March 1976 29 March 1981  
Military
Jorge Rafael Videla
(1925–2013)
29 March 1976 29 March 1981 Coup d'état. President of the Military Junta. First ruler of the National Reorganization Process. Longest government of ade facto ruler.
Military
Roberto Eduardo Viola
(1924–1994)
29 March 1981 11 December 1981 Appointed by Videla as President of the Military Junta. Powers and duties suspended on 21 November 1981 due to health problems. Ousted from office.
Military
Horacio Tomás Liendo
(1924–2007)
21 November 1981 11 December 1981 Acting president during Viola suspension.
Military
Carlos Alberto Lacoste
(1929–2004)
11 December 1981 22 December 1981 Interim president.
Military
Leopoldo Galtieri
(1926–2003)
22 December 1981 18 June 1982 Coup d'état. President of the Military Junta. Waged the Falklands War(SpanishGuerra del Atlántico Sur). Ousted from office.
Military
Alfredo Oscar Saint-Jean
(1926–1987)
18 June 1982 1 July 1982 Interim president.
Military
Reynaldo Bignone
(1928–)
1 July 1982 10 December 1983 Coup d'état. Last ruler of the National Reorganization Process. Called for elections.
Military
Raúl Alfonsín
(1927–2009)
10 December 1983 8 July 1989 1983 Free indirect elections. The 1989 presidential elections were anticipated. Alfonsín resigned during the transition and gave power to Carlos Menem six months in advance.
UCR
Carlos Menem
(1930–)
8 July 1989 8 July 1995 1989 Free indirect elections. First term. The 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitutionreduced the presidential term to four years and allowed a single consecutive reelection.
8 July 1995 10 December 1999 1995 Free direct elections. Second term.
PJ
Fernando de la Rúa
(1937–)
10 December 1999 20 December 2001 1999 Free direct elections. Faced a severe economic crisis. Resigned after theDecember 2001 riots.
Because his Vice-president Carlos Álvarezhad resigned in October 2000 the Congress Assembled selected a new President.
UCR – Alianza
Ramón Puerta
(1951–)
20 December 2001 22 December 2001 Provisional President of the Senate exercised theExecutive Power interim.
PJ
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
(1947–)
22 December 2001 30 December 2001 Elected by the Congress Assembled for three months, with instructions to call for elections. Resigned.
PJ
Eduardo Camaño
(1946–)
30 December 2001 2 January 2002 President of the Chamber of Deputies was in charge interim.
PJ
Eduardo Duhalde
(1941–)
2 January 2002 25 May 2003 Elected by the Congress Assembled, with instructions to completeDe la Rúa's term. Calledearly elections for 27 April 2003.
PJ
Néstor Kirchner
(1950–2010)
25 May 2003 10 December 2007 2003 Free direct elections. The law that allowed Duhaldeto resign gave the new president both the four-year mandate and the remaining months of De la Rúa's term. Kirchner lost the first round toCarlos Menem, but the latter forfeited the second round that should have followed.
PJ – FPV
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
(1953–)
10 December 2007 10 December 2011 2007 Free direct elections. First term. First female president of Argentina elected as head of the list.
10 December 2011 10 December 2015[61] 2011 Free direct elections. Second term. By judicial ruling, her mandate ended 10 December 2015 at 0:00 hs. Provisional President of the Senate Federico Pinedo was in chargeinterim for 12 hours.
PJ – FPV
Mauricio Macri
(1959–)
10 December 2015 Incumbent 2015 Free direct elections. First president elected in a ballotage, defeatingDaniel Scioli.
   

Facts

  • President elected to the most terms: Juan Perón, three terms, elected consecutively in 1946 and 1951, and in 1973.
  • President elected with the most difference between the winner and the second: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in 2011 with 54.11% to the 16% of Hermes Binner
  • President who held office for most time: Julio Argentino Roca, for 12 years, in two terms (1880–1886 and 1898–1904).
  • President who held office for most time continuously: Carlos Menem, for 10 years and 5 months, in two terms (1989–1999).
  • President who held office for the shortest time (not counting interim presidents): Arturo Rawson, for three days: June 4 to 6, 1943.
  • First President: Bernardino Rivadavia, 1826.
  • First President under the present Constitution: Justo José de Urquiza, 1854 to 1860.
  • First President born an Argentine citizen, not a Spanish subject: Bartolomé Mitre, in 1821.
  • First President elected in the twentieth century: Manuel Quintana, in 1904.
  • First President elected in the twenty-first century: Néstor Carlos Kirchner, in 2003.
  • First de facto President: José Félix Uriburu, 1930.
  • Last de facto President: Reynaldo Bignone, left in 1983.
  • First female President: Isabel Perón (1974–1976).
  • First elected female President: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in 2007.
  • Presidents who died in office: Manuel Quintana (1906), Roque Sáenz Peña (1914) and Juan Perón (1974).
  • Presidents who were assassinated: Justo José de Urquiza (1870) and Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1970), both after concluding their terms.
  • Living former presidents as of 10 December 2015: Isabel Perón, Carlos Menem, Fernando de la Rúa, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá,Eduardo Duhalde and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and dictator Reynaldo Bignone.

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