President of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia


The president of the Chamber of Deputies is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the National Congress of Bolivia. The president is currently elected for a one-year term.
Below is a list of office-holders.
NameTook officeLeft officeNotes
José Mariano Serrano10 June 18256 October 1825President of general assembly
Casimiro Olañeta25 May 18261826
Matías Terrazas18261826
Juan Manuel Mercado18261826
Eusebio Gutiérrez1826December 1826
José María Pérez de UrdinineaDecember 1826December 1826
Mariano GuzmánDecember 1826August 1828 - ?
Crispin Díez de Medina18281828 - ?
Narciso Dulón?? - 1831
Miguel María de Aguirre24 June 1831July 1831 - ?
Casimiro Olañeta? - August 1831August 1831 - ?
José María DalenceSeptember 18311831 - ?
Mariano Enrique Calvo?1832
José Eustaquio Eguivar18326 November 1832
José Ballivián? - October 1833November 1834 - ?
Manuel Estéban Ponce de León??
José Lorenzo Maldonado? - 18351835 - ?
Fermín Eyzaguirre??
Manuel Sánchez de Velasco??
José Mariano Serrano? - June 1839October 1839
José Maria LinaresOctober 1839November 1839
Gregorio ReinoldsNovember 1839November 1839 - ?
Manuel Fernando Bacaflor? - October 1840November 1840 - ?
Manuel Escobar? - April 1843April 1843
Manuel Hermenegildo GuerraApril 1843June 1843President of the national convention
José Lorenzo Maldonado? - 18441845 - ?
Rafael Bustillos?October 1846
Mariano BalliviánOctober 18461847 - ?
Manuel de la Cruz Méndez? - 18471847 - ?
José María Linares? - September 1848September 1848 - ?
Manuel Macedonio Salinas??
Hilarión Fernandez? - October 1848October 1848 - ?
Juan Crisóstomo Unzueta? - October 1850October 1850 - ?
Melchor UrquidiJuly 1851August 1851President of the national convention
Juan de la Cruz CisnerosAugust 1851November 1851President of the national convention
Emeterio Villamil18571861
Manuel José Cortés? - June 1861June 1861 - ?
José Manuel de la Reza? - July 1861July 1861 - ?
Adolfo Ballivián? - August 1861August 1861 - ?
Manuel Laguna??
Policarpo Eyzaguirre? - 18631863
José Vicente Dorado18631863 - ?
Lucas Mendoza de La Tapia? - August 1864October 1864
Agustín AspiazuOctober 18641868 - ?
Manuel José RiveraAugust 1868October 1868
José Raimundo Taborga? - October 1868September 1870 - ?
Ricardo Mujía??
Tomás Frías Ametller? - June 1871July 1871 - ?President of the constituent assembly
Agustín Aspiazu? - August 1871September 1871 - ?President of the constituent assembly
Mariano Reyes Cardona? - October 1871October 1871 - ?President of the constituent assembly
José Manuel del Carpio? - August 1872September 1872
Mariano BaptistaSeptember 1872October 1872
Tomás Frías AmetllerOctober 1872November 1872
Juan de Dios BosqueNovember 1872December 1872
José Manuel Carpio?1873
Daniel Calvo Gómez? - May 1873May 1873
José Manuel RendonMay 1873June 1873 - ?
Genaro Palazuelos? - October 1873November 1873 - ?
Belisario Salínas? - August 1874September 1874 - ?
Agustín Aspiazu? - September 1874October 1874
Martín LanzaOctober 1874November 1874
Serapio Reyes OrtizNovember 1874December 1874 - ?
Belisario SalinasJuly 1877November 1877
Mariano Reyes CardonaNovember 1877December 1877 - ?
Antonio Quijarro? - February 1878February 1878 - ?
Ricardo José Bustamante? - July 1878July 1878 - ?
Rudecindo CarvajalMay 1880June 1880 - ?President of the national convention
Nataniel Aguirre? - October 1880October 1880President of the national convention
Mariano BaptistaOctober 1880August 1881President of the national convention
Juan Francisco VelardeAugust 1882August 1883
Belisario BoetoAugust 1883August 1884
Isaac TamayoAugust 1884August 1886
Jenaro SanjinésAugust 1886August 1888
Manuel José FernandezAugust 1888August 1889
Jenaro SanjinésAugust 1889August 1890
Daniel G. QuirogaAugust 1890August 1891
Lisandro QuirogaAugust 1891August 1892
Joaquín Eusebio HerreroAugust 1892August 1894
Sabino Pinilla VargasAugust 1894August 1895
Federico ZuazoAugust 1895August 1896
José Santos MachicadoAugust 1896August 1898
José María UrdinineaAugust 1898November 1898
Pastor Sainz CossíoOctober 1899May 1900President of the national convention
Belisario SalinasMay 1900August 1900President of the national convention
Luis SainzAugust 1900August 1901
Carlos V. RomeroAugust 1901August 1902
Venancio JiménezAugust 1902August 1903
Benedicto GoytiaAugust 1903August 1904
José Santos QuinterosAugust 1904August 1905
Manuel VergaraAugust 1905October 1905
Benjamin CalderónOctober 1905August 1906
Constantino MoralesAugust 1906November 1906
Rosendo VillalobosNovember 1906August 1907
Rafael BerthinAugust 1907December 1907
C. Flores QuintelaDecember 1907August 1908
Angel Díez de MedinaAugust 1908October 1908
Isaac AraníbarOctober 1908August 1909
Belisario Velasco V.August 1909December 1909
Adolfo OrtegaDecember 1909February 1910
Julio CalvoAugust 19101910 - ?
José Carrasco Torrico? - August 1910September 1911 - ?
Ricardo Cortés? - October 1911November 1911 - ?
José Antezana? - 19121912 - ?
José Carrasco Torrico? - August 1913August 1913 - ?
Carlos Calvo Calbimontes19141915
José Gutiérrez Guerra? - August 1915November 1915 - ?
Plácido Sánchez Balcázar? - 1916December 1916 - ?
José Luis Tejada Sorzano? - August 1917December 1917 - ?
Abdón SaavedraAugust 1918August 1919
Carlos Calvo CalbimontesAugust 1919February 1920 - ?
José María EscalierDecember 1920June 1921President of the national convention
Manuel Rigoberto Paredes IturriNovember 19211923
Pedro Gutiérrez19231924
David Alvéstegui? - November 19241925
Flavio Abastoflor? - October 1925March 1926 - ?
Héctor Suárez Ramos19261927
Constantino Carrión Valencia19271928
Daniel Bilbao Rioja1928August 1929 - ?
Carlos Salinas Aramayo?17 December 1929
Franz TamayoFebruary 1931August 1931
Gustavo Ríos BridouxAugust 1931August 1932
Enrique González DuarteAugust 1932August 1933
Franz TamayoAugust 1933March 1935
José BarreroMarch 1935August 1935
Fidel Anze SoriaAugust 1935May 1936
Renato RiverinMay 1938October 1938President of the national convention
Rafael de UgarteApril 1940August 1941
Jorge Aráoz CamperoAugust 1941August 1942
Demetrio CanelasAugust 1942August 1943
Enrique BaldiviesoAugust 1943December 1943
Franz TamayoAugust 1944December 1944President of the national convention
Julián MontellanoJuly 1945October 1945President of the constitutional assembly
José Antonio ArzeMarch 1947August 1947
Antonio Landívar RiberaAugust 1947December 1948
Alberto Salinas LópezDecember 1948August 1949
Luis Ponce LozadaAugust 1949August 1950
Lucio Lanza SolaresAugust 1950November 1950
Renán Castrillo JustinianoAugust 1956August 1957
Juan Sanjinés OvandoAugust 1957May 1958 - ?
Germán Quiroga GaldoAugust 1958August 1959
Juan Sanjinés Ovando? - September 1959December 1959 - ?
Ernesto Ayala MercadoAugust 1960August 1961
Edil Sandoval MorónAugust 1961August 1962
Jorge Flores AríasAugust 1962August 1963
Juan Sanjinés OvandoAugust 1963November 1964
Jorge Ríos GamarraAugust 1966August 1968
Franz Ondarza LinaresAugust 1968August 1969
Jorge Ríos GamarraAugust 1969September 1969
Lidia Gueiler TejadaAugust 1979November 1979
José Zegarra CerrutoNovember 1979July 1980
Samuel Gallardo LozadaOctober 1982August 1983
Gualberto Claure OrtuñoAugust 1983August 1984
Samuel Gallardo LozadaAugust 1984August 1985
Gastón Encinas ValverdeAugust 1985August 1986
Willy Vargas VacaflorAugust 1986August 1988
Walter Soriano Lea PlazaAugust 1988August 1989
Fernando Kieffer GuzmánAugust 1989August 1991
Gastón Encinas ValverdeAugust 1991August 1993
Guillermo Bedregal GutiérrezAugust 1993August 1994
Javier Campero PazAugust 1994August 1995
Guillermo Bedregal GutiérrezAugust 1995August 1996
Georg Prestel KernAugust 1996August 1997
Hormando Vaca DiezAugust 1997August 1998
Hugo Arturo Carvajal DonosoAugust 1998August 2000
Jaalil Melgar MustafáAugust 2000August 2001
Luis Vásquez VillamorAugust 2001August 2002
Guido Áñez MoscosoAugust 2002August 2003
Oscar Arrien SandovalAugust 2003August 2004
Mario Cossío CortézAugust 2004August 2005
Norah Soruco de SalvatierraAugust 2005January 2006
Edmundo Novillo AguilarJanuary 2006January 2010
Héctor Enrique Arcé ZaconetaJanuary 2010January 2012
Rebeca DelgadoJanuary 2012January 2014
Marcelo Elío ChávezJanuary 2014January 2015
Gabriela MontañoJanuary 2015January 2019
Víctor BordaJanuary 2019November 2019
Sergio Choque14 November 2019