President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru is the presiding officer in the Congress of the Republic of Peru. This is a list of representatives that have served as Presidents of the Peruvian legislature. The Constitution of 1993 re-arranged Congress into a unicameral legislature. The President is elected for a one-year term.
Name | Took office | Left office |
Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro | 20 September 1822 | 20 October 1822 |
José de Larrea y Loredo | 21 October 1822 | 20 November 1822 |
Juan Antonio de Andueza | 21 November 1822 | 20 December 1822 |
Hipólito Unanue | 20 December 1822 | 20 February 1823 |
Nicolás de Araníbar y Fernández Cornejo | 20 February 1823 | 20 April 1823 |
Carlos Pedemonte y Talavera | 21 April 1823 | 20 June 1823 |
Justo Figuerola de Estrada | 20 June 1823 | 6 August 1823 |
Carlos Pedemonte y Talavera | 6 August 1823 | 12 August 1823 |
Justo Figuerola de Estrada | 12 August 1823 | 20 September 1823 |
Manuel Arias Pérez de los Ríos | 20 September 1823 | 20 October 1823 |
Manuel Salazar y Baquíjano | 20 October 1823 | 20 November 1823 |
José de la Mar Cortázar | 20 November 1823 | 20 December 1823 |
Felipe Antonio Alvarado Toledo y Pimentel | 20 December 1823 | 20 January 1824 |
José María Galdeano y Mendoza | 20 January 1824 | 20 February 1824 |
José Gregorio Fernández de Paredes Ayala | 20 February 1825 | 10 March 1825 |
Constituent Congress (1827–1828)
Name | Took office | Left office |
Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro | 4 June 1827 | 4 July 1827 |
Manuel Lorenzo de Vidaurre y Encalada | 4 July 1827 | 4 August 1827 |
Francisco Valdivieso y Prada | 4 August 1827 | 4 October 1827 |
Mariano de la Llosa y Vizcarra | 4 October 1827 | 4 November 1827 |
Tomás Diéguez de Florencia | 4 November 1827 | 4 December 1827 |
Juan Tomás Moscoso y Pérez | 4 December 1827 | 4 January 1828 |
Juan Manuel Nocheto de Castro | 4 January 1828 | 4 February 1828 |
Manuel Tellería Vicuña | 4 February 1828 | 4 March 1828 |
Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro | 4 March 1828 | 4 April 1828 |
Mariano Alejo Álvarez Vera | 4 April 1828 | 4 June 1828 |
Juan Manuel Nocheto de Castro | 4 June 1828 | 16 June 1828 |
Congress (1829–1832)
First bicameral congress of Peru.
Presidents of the Senate Name | Took office | Left office | Andrés Reyes y Buitrón | 31 August 1829 | 20 December 1829 | Andrés Reyes y Buitrón | 19 April 1831 | 26 September 1831 | Manuel Tellería Vicuña | 29 July 1832 | 22 December 1832 | | Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies Name | Took office | Left office | Juan Antonio Távara Andrade | 31 August 1829 | 20 December 1829 | Juan Bautista Navarrete y Maldonado | 19 April 1831 | 26 September 1831 | José María de Pando y Ramírez de Laredo | 29 July 1832 | 22 December 1832 | |
Constituent Congress (1833–1834)
President of the Assembly (Republic of South Peru) Name | Took office | Left office | Nicolás Fernández de Piérola y Flores | 7 December 1835 | 22 March 1836 | | President of the Assembly (Republic of North Peru) Name | Took office | Left office | Evaristo Gómez Sánchez | 3 August 1836 | 24 August 1836 | |
Constituent Congress (1839–1840)
Name | Took office | Left office |
Manuel Bartolomé Ferreyros | 15 August 1839 | 15 September 1839 |
Manuel Villarán Loli | 15 September 1839 | 15 October 1839 |
Agustín Guillermo Charún | 15 October 1839 | 15 November 1839 |
Lucas Pellicer Camacho | 15 November 1839 | 28 November 1839 |
Lucas Pellicer Camacho | 7 July 1840 | 12 July 1840 |
Bicameral Congress (1845–1853)
Presidents of the Senate (1845–1853)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1845–1853)
Name | Took office | Left office |
Manuel A. Cuadros Loayza | 16 April 1845 | 6 August 1847 |
José Isidro Bonifaz | 6 August 1847 | 28 July 1849 |
Bartolomé Herrera Vélez | 28 July 1849 | 28 July 1851 |
Joaquín José de Osma y Ramírez de Arellano | 28 July 1851 | 28 July 1853 |
Francisco Forcelledo Maldonado | 28 July 1853 | 17 November 1853 |
National convention (1855–1857)
Name | Took office | Left office |
Francisco Quirós y Ampudia | 14 July 1855 | 5 September 1855 |
José Santos Castañeda (First vice president) | 5 September 1855 | 30 September 1855 |
Miguel de San Román y Meza | 1 October 1855 | 31 October 1855 |
Manuel Ezequiel Rey de Castro Arce | 1 November 1855 | 16 November 1855 |
Manuel Costas Arce (First vice president) | 16 November 1855 | 30 November 1855 |
Miguel de San Román y Meza | 1 December 1855 | 31 January 1856 |
José Gálvez Egúsquiza | 1 February 1856 | 28 February 1856 |
Miguel de San Román y Meza | 1 March 1856 | 31 October 1856 |
Manuel Toribio Ureta Pacheco | 1 November 1856 | 31 December 1856 |
José Gálvez Egúsquiza | 1 January 1857 | 31 January 1857 |
Manuel Toribio Ureta Pacheco | 1 February 1857 | 31 March 1857 |
José Gálvez Egúsquiza | 1 April 1857 | 31 August 1857 |
Francisco Quirós y Ampudia | 1 September 1857 | 31 October 1857 |
Manuel Toribio Ureta Pacheco | 1 November 1857 | 2 November 1857 |
Congress (1858–1859)
President of the Senate (1858–1859)
Name | Took office | Left office | José Miguel Medina Elera | 12 October 1858 | 25 May 1859 | President of the Chamber of Deputies (1858–1859) Name | Took office | Left office | Pedro José Bustamante y Alvizuri | 12 October 1858 | 25 May 1859 | |
Constituent Congress (1860)
Name | Took office | Left office |
Bartolomé Herrera Vélez | 14 July 1860 | 15 November 1860 |
Bicameral Congress (1860–1865)
Presidents of the Senate (1860–1865)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1860–1865) |
Constituent Congress (1867)
Bicameral Congress (1868–1879)
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Presidents of the Senate (1868–1879)
Name | Took office | Left office | José Rufino Echenique Benavente | 28 July 1868 | 28 July 1871 | No legislature | 28 July 1871 | 28 July 1872 | Manuel Francisco Benavides Canduelas | 28 July 1872 | 28 July 1873 | No legislature | 28 July 1873 | 28 July 1874 | Francisco de Paula Muñoz Sologuren | 28 July 1874 | 28 July 1876 | José Antonio García y García | 28 July 1876 | 4 August 1876 | Francisco Rosas Balcázar | 4 August 1876 | 28 July 1878 | Manuel Pardo y Lavalle | 28 July 1878 | 16 November 1878 | José Antonio García y García Vice president | 16 November 1878 | 28 July 1879 | José Antonio García y García | 28 July 1879 | 25 October 1879 | Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1868–1879) Name | Took office | Left office | Juan Oviedo | 28 July 1868 | 28 July 1870 | Manuel Benjamín Cisneros | 28 July 1870 | 15 December 1870 | Eleuterio Macedo (Second vice president) | 15 December 1870 | 28 July 1871 | No legislature | 28 July 1871 | 28 July 1872 | José Simeón Tejeda Mares | 28 July 1872 | 28 July 1873 | No legislature | 28 July 1873 | 28 July 1874 | Mariano Ignacio Prado | 28 July 1874 | 28 August 1874 | Ramón Ribeyro (First vice president) | 28 August 1874 | 28 July 1875 | Mariano Ignacio Prado | 28 July 1875 | 28 July 1876 | Ignacio de Osma y Ramírez de Arellano | 28 July 1876 | 28 July 1878 | Camilo N. Carrillo Martínez | 28 July 1878 | 29 July 1879 | Ricardo Wenceslao Espinoza (First vice president) | 29 July 1879 | 25 October 1879 | |
Congress (1881)
Installed by the government of Francisco García Calderón in Chorrillos.[1]
President of the Senate (1881)
Name | Took office | Left office | Francisco de Paula Muñoz Sologuren | 10 July 1881 | 23 August 1881 | President of the Chamber of Deputies (1881) Name | Took office | Left office | César Canevaro | 10 July 1881 | 23 August 1881 | |
National constituent assembly (1881)
Installed by Nicolás de Piérola in Ayacucho.
Name | Took office | Left office |
Pío Benigno Meza | 28 July 1881 | 12 September 1881 |
Constituent assembly in the North (1882–1883)
[1] Installed by the government of Miguel Iglesias in Cajamarca.
Name | Took office | Left office |
Vidal García y García | 25 December 1882 | 1883 |
Congress (1883)
[1] Installed by the government of Lizardo Montero Flores in Arequipa.
President of the Senate (1883)
President of the Chamber of Deputies (1883) Name | Took office | Left office | Alejandro Arenas Villarreal | 22 April 1883 | 20 June 1883 | |
Constituent Congress (1884–1885)
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Congress (1886)
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President of Senate (1886)
Name | Took office | Left office | Francisco Rosas Balcázar | 30 May 1886 | 13 July 1886 | President of Chamber of Deputies (1886) |
Bicameral Congress (1886–1919)
Presidents of Senate (1886–1919)
Presidents of Chamber of Deputies (1886–1919) |
National constituent assembly (1919)
President of the national constituent assembly[3] Name | Took office | Left office |
Mariano H. Cornejo Zenteno | 24 September 1919 | 27 December 1919 |
Presidents of the Senate (1919–1930)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1919–1930) Constituent Congress (1931–1936) Presidents of the Constituent Congress[3] Name | Took office | Left office | Political party | Luis Antonio Eguiguren Escudero | 8 December 1931 | 21 April 1932 | Party Socialdemócrata | Clemente Justiniano Revilla Villanueva | 21 April 1932 | 8 December 1936 | Nationalist Party | Bicameral Congress (1939–1968) Presidents of the Senate (1939–1968) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1939–1968) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies[4] Name | Took office | Left office | Political party | Carlos Sayán Álvarez | 8 December 1939 | 28 July 1941 | Revolutionary Union | Gerardo Balbuena Carrillo | 28 July 1941 | 28 July 1944 | | Carlos Sayán Álvarez | 28 July 1944 | 28 July 1945 | Revolutionary Union | Fernando León de Vivero | 28 July 1945 | 28 July 1946 | Peruvian Aprista Party | Pedro E. Muñiz Martínez | 28 July 1946 | 28 July 1947 | Peruvian Aprista Party | Fernando León de Vivero | 28 July 1947 | 28 July 1948 | Peruvian Aprista Party | No legislature | 28 July 1948 | 29 October 1948 | | Vacant, coup d'état | 29 October 1948 | 28 July 1950 | | Claudio Fernández Concha | 28 July 1950 | 28 July 1952 | | Juan Manuel Peña Prado | 28 July 1952 | 28 July 1954 | | Eduardo Miranda Sousa | 28 July 1954 | 28 July 1956 | | Carlos Ledgard Jiménez | 28 July 1956 | 28 July 1958 | | Javier Ortiz de Zevallos Thorndike | 28 July 1958 | 28 July 1960 | Pradist Democratic Movement | Armando de la Flor Valle | 28 July 1960 | 18 July 1962 | | Vacant, coup d'état | 18 July 1962 | 28 July 1963 | | Fernando León de Vivero | 28 July 1963 | 28 July 1964 | Peruvian Aprista Party | Víctor Freundt Rosell | 28 July 1964 | 28 July 1965 | | Enrique Rivero Vélez | 28 July 1965 | 28 July 1966 | Unión Nacional Odriísta | Antonio Monsalve Morante | 28 July 1966 | 28 July 1967 | | Armando Villanueva del Campo | 28 July 1967 | 28 July 1968 | Peruvian Aprista Party | Andrés Townsend Ezcurra | 28 July 1968 | 3 October 1968 | Peruvian Aprista Party | Bicameral Congress (1980–1992) Presidents of the Senate (1980–1992) - ¹ Ramiro Prialé died on February 25 of 1988.
- ² Jorge Lozada assumed the Presidency of the Senate after the death of Ramiro Prialé, because he was the Vice-President of the Chamber.
- ³ Felipe Osterling's presidency was interrupted when President Fujimori dissolved Congress in 1992.
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (1980–1992) - ¹ Fernando León de Vivero died on January 26 of 1990.
- ² Luis Alvarado assumed the Presidency of the Chamber after the death of Fernando León De Vivero, because he was the 1st Vice-President of the Chamber.
- ³ Roberto Ramírez del Villar presidency was interrupted when President Fujimori dissolved Congress in 1992.
Congress of the Republic (1995–present) - Notes
- ¹ Luz Salgado temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after a motion to censure President Hildebrandt.
- ² Valentìn Paniagua, was elected President of Congress and as such simultaneously served as President of the Transitional Government.
- ³ Carlos Ferrero Costa, was assigned to President of Congress by an agreement between different political parties.
- 4 Alejandro Aguinaga temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after Javier Velásquez's nomination as President of the Council of Ministers.
- 5 Luis Iberico temporarily assumed the position of President of Congress after Freddy Otárola's nomination as Minister of Labor.
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