First Presidential Government
| # | Portrait | Name |
Term of office — Political party |
Notes |
Refs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernardino Rivadavia |
8 February 1826 | 7 July 1827 | Elected by the Constituent Assembly of 1826, before the promulgation of the 1826 constitution. He waged the Cisplatine War. Resigned as the constitution was rejected by the provinces and the outcome of the war generated popular discontent. | |||
| Unitarian | |||||||
| 2 | Vicente López y Planes |
7 July 1827 | 18 August 1827 | Elected as interim president by the Constituent Assembly of 1826. His mandate was limited to close the Assembly and call for elections for a new governor of Buenos Aires. | |||
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