List of Heads of State of Argentina

Presidents

#	Name	Term of office — Political party		Notes
3	Justo José de Urquiza	5 March 1854	5 March 1860	Elected by the electoral college. President of the Argentine Confederation. The reincoporation of the State of Buenos Aires was negotiated after the 1859 Battle of Cepeda.
3	Justo José de Urquiza	Federal
4	Santiago Derqui	5 March 1860	4 November 1861	Indirect elections. On October 18, 1860, a Constitutional reform is adopted, proclaiming the Argentine Republic. Resigned after the national government lost the Battle of Pavón to Buenos Aires Province.
4	Santiago Derqui	Federal
5	Juan Esteban Pedernera	4 November 1861	12 December 1861	Vice-president under Derqui, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Resigned on the dissolution of the national government.
5	Juan Esteban Pedernera
6	Bartolomé Mitre	12 December 1861	12 October 1862	Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Acting President, confirmed by the National Congress on May 1862
		12 October 1862	12 October 1868	Indirect elections. First president of the unified country. Waged the War of the Triple Alliance.
		Liberal Party (PL)
7	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento	12 October 1868	12 October 1874	Indirect elections. Ended the War of the Triple Alliance.
7	Domingo Faustino Sarmiento			Indirect elections. Ended the War of the Triple Alliance.
8	Nicolás Avellaneda	12 October 1874	12 October 1880	Indirect elections. Federalization of Buenos Aires City in September 1880.
8	Nicolás Avellaneda	National Party (PN)
9	Julio Argentino Roca	12 October 1880	12 October 1886	Indirect elections. First term.
9	Julio Argentino Roca	National Autonomist Party (PAN)		Indirect elections. First term.
10	Miguel Juárez Celman	12 October 1886	6 August 1890	Indirect elections. Resigned following the Revolution of the Park.
10	Miguel Juárez Celman	PAN – PN
11	Carlos Pellegrini	6 August 1890	12 October 1892	Vice-president under Juárez Celman, assumed the presidency after his resignation.
11	Carlos Pellegrini	PAN
12	Luis Sáenz Peña	12 October 1892	22 January 1895	Indirect elections. Resigned.
12	Luis Sáenz Peña	PAN		Indirect elections. Resigned.
13	José Evaristo Uriburu	22 January 1895	12 October 1898	Vice-president under Sáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his resignation.
13	José Evaristo Uriburu	PAN
14	Julio Argentino Roca	12 October 1898	12 October 1904	Indirect elections. Second term.
14	Julio Argentino Roca	PAN		Indirect elections. Second term.
15	Manuel Quintana	12 October 1904	25 January 1906	Indirect elections. Resigned for health reasons, died two months later.
15	Manuel Quintana	PAN
16	José Figueroa Alcorta	25 January 1906	12 October 1910	Vice-president under Quintana, assumed the presidency after his resignation.
16	José Figueroa Alcorta	PAN
17	Roque Sáenz Peña	12 October 1910	9 August 1914	Indirect elections. Promoted the Sáenz Peña law, which allowed secret, universal and mandatory suffrage. Died in office.
17	Roque Sáenz Peña	PAN – Modernist
18	Victorino de la Plaza	9 August 1914	12 October 1916	Vice-president under Sáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his death.
18	Victorino de la Plaza	PAN
19	Hipólito Yrigoyen	12 October 1916	12 October 1922	Free indirect elections. First president elected under the Sáenz Peña law. First term. Maintained neutrality during World War I.
19	Hipólito Yrigoyen	Radical Civic Union (UCR)
20	Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear	12 October 1922	12 October 1928	Free indirect elections.
20	Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear	UCR		Free indirect elections.
21	Hipólito Yrigoyen	12 October 1928	6 September 1930	Free indirect elections. Second term, ousted from office by a civico-military coup.
21	Hipólito Yrigoyen	UCR
22	José Félix Uriburu	6 September 1930	20 February 1932	First coup d'etat in modern Argentine history. Beginning of the Infamous Decade.
22	José Félix Uriburu	Military
23	Agustín Pedro Justo	20 February 1932	20 February 1938	Indirect elections held with fraud, the UCR was proscribed.
23	Agustín Pedro Justo	Concordancia		Indirect elections held with fraud, the UCR was proscribed.
24	Roberto María Ortiz	20 February 1938	27 June 1942	Indirect elections held with fraud. Died in office.
24	Roberto María Ortiz	UCR-A – Concordancia		Indirect elections held with fraud. Died in office.
25	Ramón Castillo	27 June 1942	4 June 1943	Vice-president under Ortiz, assumed the presidency after his death. Deposed in a coup d'état. End of the Infamous Decade.
25	Ramón Castillo	PDN – Concordancia
26	Arturo Rawson	4 June 1943	7 June 1943	Coup d'etat. Beginning of the Revolution of '43. Ousted from office.
26	Arturo Rawson	Military
27	Pedro Pablo Ramírez	7 June 1943	9 March 1944	Coup d'etat. Ousted from office.
27	Pedro Pablo Ramírez	Military		Coup d'etat. Ousted from office.
28	Edelmiro Julián Farrell	11 March 1944	4 June 1946	Coup d'etat. Declared war to the Axis powers. Called elections. End of the Revolution of '43.
28	Edelmiro Julián Farrell	Military
29	Juan Domingo Perón	4 June 1946	4 June 1952	Free indirect elections. First term. Reelection enabled by the Constitution of 1949.
		Labour Party
		4 June 1952	20 September 1955	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.
		Justicialist Party (PJ)
30	Eduardo Lonardi	23 September 1955	13 November 1955	Coup d'etat. Beginning of the Revolución Libertadora. Ousted from office.
30	Eduardo Lonardi	Military
31	Pedro Eugenio Aramburu	13 November 1955	1 May 1958	Coup d'etat. The 1949 Constitution is repealed and the 1853 Constitution is restored. Call for elections with Peronism proscribed. End of the Revolución Libertadora.
31	Pedro Eugenio Aramburu	Military
32	Arturo Frondizi	1 May 1958	29 March 1962	Indirect elections with Peronism proscribed. Ousted from office by a military coup.
32	Arturo Frondizi	UCRI
33	José María Guido	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 President Alejandro Gómez had resigned in 1958.
33	José María Guido	UCRI
34	Arturo Umberto Illia	12 October 1963	28 June 1966	Indirect elections with Peronism proscribed. Ousted from office by a military coup.
34	Arturo Umberto Illia	UCRP
35	Juan Carlos Onganía	29 June 1966	8 June 1970	Coup d'etat. First ruler of the Revolución Argentina. Ousted from office.
35	Juan Carlos Onganía	Military
36	Roberto M. Levingston	8 June 1970	23 May 1971	Coup d'etat. Ousted from office.
36	Roberto M. Levingston	Military		Coup d'etat. Ousted from office.
37	Alejandro A. Lanusse	26 May 1971	25 May 1973	Coup d'etat. Last ruler of the Revolución Argentina. Called for elections. Peronism proscription lifted.
37	Alejandro A. Lanusse	Military
38	Héctor José Cámpora	25 May 1973	13 July 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.
38	Héctor José Cámpora	Justicialist Front for National Liberation (FJL)
39	Raúl Alberto Lastiri	13 July 1973	12 October 1973	Interim. President of the Chamber of Deputies, assumed the presidency after Cámpora's and Solano Lima's resignations. Alejandro Díaz Bialet, President of the Senate and ahead of Lastiri in the succession line, was on a diplomatic mission in Africa at that time.
39	Raúl Alberto Lastiri	FJL
40	Juan Domingo Perón	12 October 1973	30 June 1974	Free direct elections. Third term. Died in office.
40	Juan Domingo Perón	FJL – PJ		Free direct elections. Third term. Died in office.
41	Isabel Martínez de Perón	30 June 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.
41	Isabel Martínez de Perón	FJL – PJ
42	Jorge Rafael Videla	29 March 1976	29 March 1981	Coup d'etat. President of the Military Junta. First ruler of the National Reorganization Process. Longest government of a de facto ruler.
42	Jorge Rafael Videla	Military
43	Roberto Eduardo Viola	29 March 1981	12 December 1981	Appointed by Videla as President of the Military Junta. Ousted from office.
43	Roberto Eduardo Viola	Military
44	Leopoldo Galtieri	22 December 1981	17 June 1982	Coup d'etat. President of the Military Junta. Waged the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra del Atlántico Sur). Ousted from office.
44	Leopoldo Galtieri	Military
45	Reynaldo Bignone	1 July 1982	10 December 1983	Coup d'etat. Last ruler of the National Reorganization Process. Called for elections.
45	Reynaldo Bignone	Military
46	Raúl Alfonsín	10 December 1983	8 July 1989	Free indirect elections. The 1989 presidential elections were anticipated. Alfonsín resigned during the transition and gave power to Carlos Menem six months in advance.
46	Raúl Alfonsín	UCR
47	Carlos Menem	8 July 1989	8 July 1995	Free indirect elections. First term. The 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution reduced the presidential term to four years and allowed a single consecutive reelection.
		8 July 1995	10 December 1999	Free direct elections. Second term.
		PJ		Free direct elections. Second term.
48	Fernando de la Rúa	10 December 1999	20 December 2001	Free direct elections. Faced a severe economic crisis. Resigned after the December 2001 riots. His Vice-president Carlos Álvarez had resigned in October 2000, so the Congress Assembled appointed a new President.
48	Fernando de la Rúa	UCR – Alianza
49	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	22 December 2001	30 December 2001	Elected by the Assembly for three months, with instructions to call for elections. Resigned.
49	Adolfo Rodríguez Saá	PJ
50	Eduardo Duhalde	2 January 2002	25 May 2003	Elected by the Assembly, with instructions to complete De la Rúa's term. Called early elections for 27 April 2003, and resigned.
50	Eduardo Duhalde	PJ
51	Néstor Kirchner	25 May 2003	10 December 2007	Free direct elections. The law that allowed Duhalde to 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 to Carlos Menem, but the latter forfeited the second round that should have followed.
51	Néstor Kirchner	FPV – PJ
52	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner	10 December 2007	10 December 2011	Free direct elections. First female president of Argentina elected as head of the list.
		10 December 2011	Incumbent	Free direct elections. Second term. Incumbent
		FPV – PJ		Free direct elections. Second term. Incumbent

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