List of presidents of the Dominican Republic

During the 175 years since its independence, the Dominican Republic has counted 53 people in the presidential office, whether constitutional, provisional or interim, divided into 66 periods of government. Likewise, there are also those periods in which the head of the State has been exercised by collegiate bodies (such as triumvirates, military juntas or councils of state).

 Republic of Spanish Haiti (1821–1822) 

PortraitName(Birth-Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd  100px José Núñez de Cáceres(1772-1846) 1 December 1821 9 February 1822President of Spanish Haiti.

 Haitian annexation (1822–1844) 

PortraitName(Birth-Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd100pxJean-Pierre Boyer(1776-1850)9 February 182213 February 1843President of Haiti. Exiled in Jamaica.100pxCharles Rivière-Hérard(1789-1850)4 April 184327 February 1844President of Haiti.

Presidents of the Dominican Republic (1844–present)
 First Republic (1844–1861) 
 Central Government Junta 
The Central Government Junta was the first body of a collegiate and provisional nature to exercise the executive, legislative and judicial powers of the nascent Dominican state. It was provisionally constituted on 28 February 1844 and subsequently formalized on 1 March 1844; it went through two coups d'état, and finally dissolved with the proclamation of the first Constitution on 6 November 1844.

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd1 100px Francisco del Rosario Sánchez(1817–1861) 28 February 1844 1 March 1844Interim president of the Central Government Junta.2 100px Tomás Bobadilla(1795–1871) 1 March 1844 9 June 1844President of the Central Government Junta. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.1 100px Francisco del Rosario Sánchez(1817–1861) 9 June 1844 12 July 1844President of the Central Government Junta. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.3 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 12 July 1844 14 November 1844President of the Central Government Junta.

 Presidents 
PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of office ElectionsNotesStartEnd3 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 14 November 1844 4 August 1848 1844Resigned.4 100px Manuel Jimenes(1808–1854) 8 September 1848 29 May 1849 1848Ousted from office by a coup d'état.3 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 30 May 1849 23 September 1849 —He hold the title "Supreme Chief" (meaning "Jefe Supremo" in Spanish).5 100px Santiago Espaillat(1785–185?) President-elect Espaillat never took office. — July1849Espaillat was senator for Santiago when he was elected President by the electoral college, but he did not accept the office as he was afraid that his predecessor (Santana) would undermine his ability to govern.  6 100px Buenaventura Báez(1812–1884) 24 September 1849 15 February 1853 Aug.18493 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 15 February 1853 26 May 1856 1853Resigned.7 100px Manuel de Regla Mota(1795–1864) 2 January 1855 30 May 1855 —Vice-president under Pedro Santana. Acting president. 2 July 1855 5 September 1855 —Vice-president under Pedro Santana. Acting president. 26 May 1856 8 October 1856 —Vice-president under Pedro Santana, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Resigned.6 100px Buenaventura Báez(1812–1884) 8 October 1856 12 June 1858 —Vice-president under Manuel de Regla Mota, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Resigned.8 100px José Desiderio Valverde(1822–1903) 7 July 1857 31 August 1858 —Self-appointed president in Santiago de los Caballeros.3 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 13 June 1858 31 January 1859 — 31 January 1859 18 March 1861 1859Approved the annexation of the country to Spain.

 Spanish annexation (1861–1865) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd3 100px Pedro Santana(1801–1864) 18 March 1861 20 July 1862Captain-General of Santo Domingo. Resigned.Created 1st Marquess of Las Carreras in 1862.9 100px Felipe Ribero y Lemoyne(1797–1873) 20 July 1862 22 October 1863Captain-General of Santo Domingo.10  Carlos de Vargas Machuca y Cerveto(1803–1879) 23 October 1863 30 March 1864Captain-General of Santo Domingo.11 100px José de la Gándara y Navarro(1820–1885) 31 March 1864 11 July 1865Captain-General of Santo Domingo.

 Dominican Restoration War (1863–1865) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd12 75px José Antonio Salcedo(1816–1864) 14 September 1863 10 October 186413 100pxGaspar Polanco(1801–1864) 10 October 1864 24 January 186514 100px Benigno Filomeno de Rojas(1821–1865) 24 January 1865 24 March 186515 100px Pedro Antonio Pimentel(1830–1874) 25 March 1865 11 July 1865Spain concedes defeat and orders a withdraw from the island.

 Presidents of the Second Republic (1865–1916) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of office Elections PoliticalpartyNotesStartEnd15 100px Pedro Antonio Pimentel(1830–1874) 11 July 1865 4 August 1865 — —Ousted from office by a coup d'état.16 100px José María Cabral(1816–1899) 4 August 1865 15 November 1865 — BlueCabral was proclaimed "Protector of the Republic" until the election of a new president by the National Convention.17 100px Pedro Guillermo(1814–1867) 15 November 1865 8 December 1865 — —Guillermo was appointed as Interim President until the arrival to the Dominican Republic of Buenaventura Báez, who was exiled in Curaçao.6 100px Buenaventura Báez(1812–1884) 8 December 1865 29 May 1866 1865 RedOusted from office by a coup d'état.18  Triumvirate 29 May 1866 22 August 1866 — —Members: Pedro Antonio Pimentel, Gregorio Luperón, Federico de Jesús García.  The Electoral College system was abolished and replaced by universal direct suffrage.16 100px José María Cabral(1816–1899) 22 August 1866 29 September 1866 — BlueInterim president.  29 September 1866 31 January 1868 1866 BlueCabral was the first Dominican president elected by universal direct suffrage. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.19 100px Manuel Altagracia Cáceres(1838–1878) 31 January 1868 13 February 1868 — —20  Junta of Generals 13 February 1868 2 May 1868 — —Members: José Antonio Hungría, Francisco Antonio Gómez Báez, José Ramón Luciano y Franco.6 100px Buenaventura Báez(1812–1884) 2 May 1868 2 January 1874 1868 RedOusted from office by defeat in the Six Years' War.21 100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915) 25 November 1873 21 January 1874 — GreenSupreme chief.19 100px100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915)Manuel Altagracia Cáceres(1838–1878) 21 January 1874 5 February 1874 — —Generals in charge of the Supreme Power of the Nation.21 100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915) 5 February 1874 23 February 1876 1874 GreenResigned.22  Council of Secretaries of State 23 February 1876 29 April 1876 — —Members: Pedro Tomás Garrido Matos, José de Jesús Eduardo de Castro Álvarez, Pedro Pablo de Bonilla y Correa-Cruzado, Juan Bautista Zafra y Miranda, Pablo López Villanueva (until 7 March 1876), Jacinto Peynado y Tejón (since 7 March 1876).23 100px Ulises Francisco Espaillat(1823–1878) 29 April 1876 5 October 1876 1876 BlueOusted from office by a coup d'état.24  Superior Governing Junta 5 October 1876 11 November 1876 — —Members: Pedro Tomás Garrido Matos, José de Jesús Eduardo de Castro Álvarez, Juan Bautista Zafra y Miranda, Pablo López Villanueva, José Caminero Matías, Fidel Rodríguez Urdaneta, Juan Esteban Ariza Matos.21 100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915) 11 November 1876 9 December 1876 — GreenResigned.25 Marcos Antonio Cabral(1842–1903) 10 December 1876 26 December 1876 — —President of the Provisional Government Junta.6 100px Buenaventura Báez(1812–1884) 27 December 1876 2 March 1878 — RedOusted from office by a coup d'état.21 100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915) 1 March 1878 3 May 1878 — GreenPresident of the Provisional Government of the National Movement.26  Council of Secretaries of State 2 March 1878 5 March 1878 — —Members: José María Cabral, Joaquín Montolío.27 100px Cesáreo Guillermo(1847–1885) 5 March 1878 6 July 1878 — RedInterim president.21 100px Ignacio María González(1838–1915) 6 July 1878 2 September 1878 1878 GreenOusted from office by a coup d'état.28  Superior Leaders of the Revolutionary Movement 2 September 1878 6 September 1878 — —Members: Ulises Heureaux, Cesáreo Guillermo.29 100px Jacinto de Castro(1811–1896) 7 September 1878 29 September 1878 — —President of the Supreme Court of Justice. Resigned.30  Council of Secretaries of State 30 September 1878 27 February 1879 — —Members: Cesáreo Guillermo, Alejandro Angulo Guridi, Pedro María Aristy.27 100px Cesáreo Guillermo(1847–1885) 27 February 1879 6 December 1879 1879 RedOusted from office by a coup d'état.31 100px Gregorio Luperón(1839–1897) 6 October 1879 1 September 1880 — Blue32 100px Fernando Arturo de Meriño(1833–1906) 1 September 1880 1 September 1882 1880 Blue33 100px Ulises Heureaux(1845–1899) 1 September 1882 1 September 1884 1882 Blue34 100px Francisco Gregorio Billini(1844–1898) 1 September 1884 16 May 1885 1884 BlueResigned.35 100px Alejandro Woss y Gil(1856–1932) 16 May 1885 6 January 1887 — BlueVice-president under Francisco Gregorio Billini, assumed the presidency after his resignation.33 100px Ulises Heureaux(1845–1899) 6 January 1887 27 February 1889 1886 Blue 27 February 1889 27 February 1893 1888 Blue 27 February 1893 27 February 1897 1892 Blue 27 February 1897 26 July 1899 1896 BlueAssassinated.36  Wenceslao Figuereo(1834–1910) 26 July 1899 30 August 1899 — BlueVice-president under Ulises Heureaux, assumed the presidency after his assassination. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.37  Council of Secretaries of State 31 August 1899 — —Members: Tomás Demetrio Morales, Arístides Patiño, Enrique Henríquez y Alfau, Jaime R. Vidal, Braulio Álvarez.38  People's Revolutionary Governing Junta 31 August 1899 4 September 1899 — —Members: Mariano Cestero, Álvaro Logroño, Arístides Patiño, Pedro María Mejía.39 100px Horacio Vásquez(1860–1936) 4 September 1899 15 November 1899 — RedInterim president.40 100px Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra(1846–1919) 15 November 1899 2 May 1902 1899 BlueOusted from office by a coup d'état.39 100px Horacio Vásquez(1860–1936) 26 April 1902 23 April 1903 — RedOusted from office by a coup d'état.35 100px Alejandro Woss y Gil(1856–1932) 23 March 1903 1 August 1903 — BlueInterim president. 1 August 1903 24 November 1903 1903 BlueOusted from office by a coup d'état.41 100px Carlos Felipe Morales(1868–1914) 24 November 1903 17 June 1904 — RedInterim president. 17 June 1904 24 December 1905 1904 RedResigned.42  Council of Secretaries of State 24 December 1905 29 December 1905 — —Members: Manuel Lamarche García, Emiliano Tejera, Andrés Julio Montolío, Francisco Leonte Vásquez Lajara, Carlos Ginebra, Eladio Victoria, Federico Velásquez y Hernández.43 100px Ramón Cáceres(1866–1911) 29 December 1905 1 July 1908 — RedVice-president under Carlos Felipe Morales, assumed the presidency after his resignation. 1 July 1908 19 November 1911 1908 RedAssassinated at the start of the 1911–12 Civil War.44  Council of Secretaries of State 19 November 1911 5 December 1911 — —Members: Miguel Antonio Román, José María Cabral.45 100px Eladio Victoria(1864–1939) 5 December 1911 27 February 1912 — —Interim president appointed by the Congress. 27 February 1912 30 November 1912 1912 —Resigned.46 100px Adolfo Alejandro Nouel(1862–1937) 1 December 1912 13 April 1913 — —Archbishop of Santo Domingo, interim president appointed by the Congress. Resigned.47 100px José Bordas Valdez(1874–1968) 14 April 1913 15 June 1914 — —Interim president appointed by the Congress. 15 June 1914 27 August 1914 June1914 —Resigned.48  Ramón Báez(1858–1929) 28 August 1914 5 December 1914 — —Interim president.40 100px Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra(1846–1919) 6 December 1914 4 May 1916 Oct.1914 Blue

 United States occupation (1916–1924) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd40 100px Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra(1846–1919) 4 May 1916 7 May 1916Resigned due to the United States occupation.49  Council of Secretaries of State 7 May 1916 31 July 1916Members: Jaime Mota, Bernardo Pichardo, Federico Velásquez y Hernández.50 100px Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal(1859–1935) 31 July 1916 29 November 1916Interim president appointed by the Congress. Removed by the United States.51  Harry Shepard Knapp(1856–1923) 29 November 1916 18 November 1918Military Governor.52 133x133px Edwin Anderson Jr.(1860–1933) 23 August 1917 11 September 1917Acting Military Governor.53 100px Joseph Henry Pendleton(1860–1942) 5 February 1918 17 March 1918Acting Military Governor. 6 April 1918 1 June 1918Acting Military Governor. 2 July 1918 1 September 1918Acting Military Governor.54 100px Ben Hebard Fuller(1870–1937) 18 November 1918 25 February 1919Military Governor.55  Thomas Snowden(1857–1930) 25 February 1919 3 June 1921Military Governor.56 100px Samuel Shelburne Robison(1867–1952) 3 June 1921 21 October 1922Military Governor.57 100px Harry Lee(1872–1935) 3 January 1922 19 February 1922Acting Military Governor. 14 June 1922 24 July 1922Acting Military Governor.58 100px Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos(1871–1935) 21 October 1922 12 July 1924Interim president.

 Presidents of the Third Republic (1924–1965) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of office Elections PoliticalpartyNotesStartEnd39 100px Horacio Vásquez(1860–1936) 12 July 1924 3 March 1930 1924 RedOusted from office by a coup d'état.59 100px Rafael Estrella Ureña(1889–1945) 3 March 1930 16 August 1930 — RepublicanMinister of Interior and Police under Horacio Vásquez, assumed the presidency after coup d'état.Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo.60 100px Rafael Trujillo(1891–1961) 16 August 1930 16 August 1934 1930 Confederation of Parties 16 August 1934 16 August 1938 1934 PD61 Jacinto Peynado(1878–1940) 16 August 1938 7 March 1940 1938 PDDied in office.Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo.62 100px Manuel de Jesús Troncoso(1878–1955) 7 March 1940 18 May 1942 — PDVice-president under Jacinto Peynado, assumed the presidency after his death.Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo.60 100px Rafael Trujillo(1891–1961) 18 May 1942 16 August 1947 1942 PDFinished the presidential term of Jacinto Peynado ending on 16 August 1942. 16 August 1947 16 August 1952 1947 PD63 100px Héctor Trujillo(1908–2002) 1 March 1951 1 October 1951 — PDActing president. 16 August 1952 16 August 1957 1952 PDPuppet president of Rafael Trujillo. 16 August 1957 3 August 1960 1957 PDResigned.Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo.64 100px Joaquín Balaguer(1906–2002) 3 August 1960 31 December 1961 — PDVice-president under Héctor Trujillo, assumed the presidency after his resignation.Puppet president of Rafael Trujillo until the assassination of Trujillo on 30 May 1961.Resigned. 65 — Council of State 1 January 1962 16 January 1962 — —Members: Joaquín Balaguer (President), Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (Vice-president), Eduardo Read Barreras (Second Vice-president), Eliseo Pérez Sánchez, Nicolás Pichardo, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera.Ousted from office by a coup d'état.66 — Civic-Military Junta 16 January 1962 18 January 1962 — MilitaryMembers: Huberto Bogaert (President), Armando Óscar Pacheco, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Enrique Valdez Vidaurre, Wilfredo Medina Natalio, Neit Rafael Nivar Seijas.67 — Council of State 18 January 1962 27 February 1963 — —Members: Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (President), Eduardo Read Barreras, Eliseo Pérez Sánchez, Nicolás Pichardo, Luis Amiama Tió, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Donald Reid Cabral.68 100px Juan Bosch(1909–2001) 27 February 1963 25 September 1963 1962 PRDOusted from office by a coup d'état.69  Víctor Elby Viñas Román(1925–2004) 25 September 1963 26 September 1963 — MilitaryPresident of the Provisional Government Junta.70 — Triumvirate 26 September 1963 23 December 1963 — MilitaryMembers: Emilio de los Santos (President), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat, Ramón Tapia Espinal.71 — Triumvirate 23 December 1963 25 April 1965 — MilitaryMembers: Donald Reid Cabral (President), Ramón Tapia Espinal (resigned on 8 April 1964), Ramón Cáceres Troncoso (since 8 April 1964), Manuel Enrique Tavares Espaillat (resigned on 27 June 1964).Deposed during the Dominican Civil War.

 Dominican Civil War (1965) 

FactionPortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of officeNotesStartEnd72 — — Revolutionary Committee 25 April 1965Members: Vinicio Fernández Pérez, Giovanni Gutiérrez Ramírez, Francisco Caamaño, Eladio Ramírez Sánchez, Pedro Bartolomé Benoit.73 Constitutionalist(Pro-Bosch)  José Rafael Molina Ureña(1921–2000) 25 April 1965 27 April 1965Resigned.74 Francisco Caamaño(1932–1973) 4 May 1965 3 September 1965President appointed by the Congress.Resigned.75 Loyalist(Government)(Anti-Bosch)colspan=5 76 — Military Junta 1 May 1965 7 May 1965Members: Pedro Bartolomé Benoit (President), Olgo Santana Carrasco, Enrique Apolinar Casado Saladín.Resigned.77 — Government of National Reconstruction 7 May 1965 30 August 1965Members: Antonio Imbert Barrera (President), Carlos Grisolía Poloney, Alejandro Zeller Cocco, Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Julio Desiderio Postigo Arias (resigned on 10 August 1965), Leonte Bernard Vásquez (since 10 August 1965).Resigned.78 Transitional Government 100px Héctor García-Godoy(1921–1970) 3 September 1965 1 July 1966

 Presidents of the Fourth Republic (1966–present) 

PortraitName(Birth–Death)Term of office Elections PoliticalpartyNotesStartEnd64 100px Joaquín Balaguer(1906–2002) 1 July 1966 16 August 1970 1966 PRSC 16 August 1970 16 August 1974 1970 PRSC 16 August 1974 16 August 1978 1974 PRSC79 Antonio Guzmán Fernández(1911–1982) 16 August 1978 4 July 1982 1978 PRDCommitted suicide.80 100px Jacobo Majluta Azar(1934–1996) 4 July 1982 16 August 1982 — PRDVice-president under Antonio Guzmán, assumed the presidency after his suicide.81 Salvador Jorge Blanco(1926–2010) 16 August 1982 16 August 1986 1982 PRD64 100px Joaquín Balaguer(1906–2002) 16 August 1986 16 August 1990 1986 PRSC 16 August 1990 16 August 1994 1990 PRSC 16 August 1994 16 August 1996 1994 PRSCAfter fraud charges in the elections, an agreement known as the Pact for Democracy (Pacto por la Democracia) was reached, which shortened the presidential term to two years.82 100px Leonel Fernández(1953–) 16 August 1996 16 August 2000 1996 PLD83 100px Hipólito Mejía(1941–) 16 August 2000 16 August 2004 2000 PRD84 100px Leonel Fernández(1953–) 16 August 2004 16 August 2008 2004 PLD 16 August 2008 16 August 2012 2008 PLD85 100px Danilo Medina(1951–) 16 August 2012 16 August 2016 2012 PLD 16 August 2016 16 August 2020 2016 PLD86 100pxLuis Abinader16 August 202016 August 20242020  PRM 16 August 2024Incumbent2024PRM

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