President of the Dominican Republic
| President of the Dominican Republic | |
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.svg) Presidential Standard | |
| Style | His Excellency |
| Residence | National Palace, Santo Domingo |
| Term length | Four years |
| Inaugural holder | Pedro Santana |
| Formation | 13 November 1844 |
| Website | presidencia.gob.do |
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 Dominican Republic portal |
The President of the Dominican Republic is both the head of state and head of government of the Dominican Republic. The presidential system was established in 1844, following the proclamation of the republic. The President of the Dominican Republic receives the treatment of His Excellency during his time in office. His official address is the National Palace. Also, the position corresponds to the highest office in the country, the highest senior government official and the prominent political figure in the nation.
The current Constitution of the Dominican Republic (last amended in 2010) establishes the requirements, rights and obligations to be met by the President of the Republic.
Currently, the office can be held for a period of four years without immediate re-election. After at least one constitutional term, a person who has held the post of President before may run for this Office again. The change of command takes place every four years, on 16 August, which is the day of the Restoration of the Republic and therefore a national holiday.
The current President of the Dominican Republic is Danilo Medina of the Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD) (Dominican Liberation Party), who took office on 16 August 2012.
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Social Christian Reformist Party
Dominican Liberation Party
| № | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Election | Term in office | Political Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 1 | Pedro Santana (1801–1864) |
None | 13 November 1844 | 4 August 1848 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 2 | Manuel Jimenes (1808–1854) |
None | 8 September 1848 | 29 May 1849 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 3 | Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884) |
None | 29 May 1849 | 15 February 1853 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 4 | Pedro Santana (1801–1864) |
None | 15 February 1853 | 26 May 1856 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 5 | Manuel de Regla Mota (1795–1864) |
None | 26 May 1856 | 8 October 1856 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 6 | Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884) |
None | 8 October 1856 | 13 June 1858 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 7 | José Desiderio Valverde (1822–1903) |
None | 13 June 1858 | 31 August 1858 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 8 | Pedro Santana (1801–1864) |
None | 31 August 1858 | 18 March 1861 | Independent | |
| From 1861 until 1865, Dominican Republic was occuped by Spain. | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 9 | Pedro Antonio Pimentel (1830–1874) |
None | 25 March 1865 | 4 August 1865 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 10 | Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884) |
None | 8 December 1865 | 29 May 1866 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 11 | José María Cabral (1816–1899) |
1866 | 22 August 1866 | 3 January 1868 | Blue Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 12 | Manuel Altagracia Cáceres (1838–1878) |
None | 3 January 1868 | 13 February 1868 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 13 | Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884) |
None | 2 May 1868 | 2 January 1874 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Green Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 14 | Ignacio María González (1838–1915) |
1874 | 6 April 1874 | 23 February 1876 | Green Party | |
| style="background:Template:Green Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 15 | Ulises Francisco Espaillat (1823–1878) |
1876 | 29 April 1876 | 5 October 1876 | Green Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 16 | Buenaventura Báez (1812–1884) |
None | 26 December 1876 | 2 March 1878 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 17 | Cesareo Guillermo (1847–1885) |
1878 | 5 March 1878 | 6 July 1878 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Green Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 18 | Ignacio María González (1838–1915) |
None | 6 July 1878 | 2 September 1878 | Green Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 19 | Cesareo Guillermo (1847–1885) |
None | 27 February 1879 | 6 December 1879 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 20 | Gregorio Luperón (1839–1897) |
None | 6 December 1879 | 1 September 1880 | Blue Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 21 | Fernando Arturo de Meriño (1833–1906) |
1880 | 1 September 1880 | 1 September 1882 | Blue Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 22 | Ulises Heureaux (1845–1899) |
1882 | 1 September 1882 | 1 September 1884 | Blue Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 23 | Francisco Gregorio Billini (1844–1898) |
1884 | 1 September 1884 | 16 May 1885 | Blue Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 24 | Alejandro Woss y Gil (1856–1932) |
1886 | 16 May 1885 | 6 January 1887 | Blue Party | |
| rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 25 | Ulises Heureaux (1845–1899) |
1888 | 6 January 1887[1] | 26 July 1899 | Blue Party | |
| 1892 | ||||||
| 1896 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 26 | Wenceslao Figuereo (1834–1910) |
1899 | 26 July 1899 | 30 August 1899 | Red Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 27 | Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra (1846–1919) |
None | 26 July 1899 | 30 August 1899 | Jimenist Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 28 | Alejandro Woss y Gil (1856–1932) |
None | 23 April 1903 | 24 November 1903 | Jimenist Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 29 | Carlos Felipe Morales (1868–1914) |
1903 | 24 November 1903 | 29 December 1905 | Horacist Party | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 30 | Ramón Cáceres (1866–1911) |
1904 | 12 January 1906 | 19 November 1911 | Horacist Party | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 31 | Eladio Victoria (1864–1939) |
1908 | 5 December 1911 | 30 November 1912 | Independent[2] | |
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | 32[3] | Eladio Victoria (1874–1968) |
1912 | 14 April 1913 | 27 August 1911 | Independent[4] | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 33 | Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra (1846–1919) |
1914 | 5 December 1914 | 7 May 1916 | Jimenist Party | |
| style="background:Template:Blue Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 34 | Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal (1859–1935) |
None | 31 July 1916 | 29 November 1916 | Jimenist Party[5] | |
| From 1916 until 1924, Dominican Republic was occuped by the United States. | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color;" | –[6] | Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos (1871–1935) |
None | 21 October 1922 | 12 July 1924 | Independent | |
| style="background:Template:Red Party (Dominican Republic)/meta/color; color:white" | 35 | Horacio Vásquez (1860–1936) |
1924 | 12 July 1924 | 3 March 1930 | Horacist Party | |
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 36 | Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) |
1930 | 16 August 1930 | 16 August 1938 | Dominican Party | |
| 1934 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 37 | Jacinto Peynado ▼ (1878–1940) |
1938 | 16 August 1938 | 24 February 1940 | Dominican Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 38 | Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha (1878–1955) |
None | 24 February 1940 | 18 May 1942 | Dominican Party | |
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 39 | Rafael Trujillo (1891–1961) |
1942 | 18 May 1942 | 16 August 1952 | Dominican Party | |
| 1947 | ||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 40 | Héctor Trujillo (1908–2002) |
1952 | 16 August 1952 | 3 August 1960 | Dominican Party | |
| 1957 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Dominican Party/meta/color; color:white" | 41 | Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
None | 3 August 1960 | 16 January 1962 | Dominican Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 42 | Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (1904–1979) |
None | 18 January 1962 | 27 February 1963 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 43 | Juan Bosch (1909–2001) |
1962 | 27 February 1963 | 25 September 1963 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| style="background:Template:Military Rule/meta/color;" | 44[7] | Donald Reid Cabral (1923–2006) |
None | 29 December 1963 | 25 April 1965 | Military | |
| From April 27 until July 1, 1966, the Dominican Republic was in civil war and was occuped by the United States again. | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Social Christian Reformist Party/meta/color; color:white" | –[8] | Héctor García-Godoy (1921–1970) |
None | 3 September 1965 | 1 July 1966 | Social Christian Reformist Party | |
| rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Social Christian Reformist Party/meta/color; color:white" | 45 | Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
1966 | 1 July 1966 | 16 August 1978 | Social Christian Reformist Party | |
| 1970 | ||||||
| 1974 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 46 | Antonio Guzmán Fernández † (1911–1982) |
1978 | 16 August 1978 | 4 July 1982 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 47 | Jacobo Majluta Azar (1934–1996) |
None | 4 July 1982 | 16 August 1982 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 48 | Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926–2010) |
1982 | 16 August 1982 | 16 August 1986 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| rowspan=3 style="background:Template:Social Christian Reformist Party/meta/color; color:white" | 49 | Joaquín Balaguer (1906–2002) |
1986 | 16 August 1986 | 16 August 1996 | Social Christian Reformist Party | |
| 1990 | ||||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Dominican Liberation Party/meta/color; color:white" | 50 | Leonel Fernández (born in 1953) |
1996 | 16 August 1996 | 16 August 2000 | Dominican Liberation Party | |
| style="background:Template:Dominican Revolutionary Party/meta/color; color:white" | 51 | Hipólito Mejía (born in 1941) |
2000 | 16 August 2000 | 16 August 2004 | Dominican Revolutionary Party | |
| rowspan=2 style="background:Template:Dominican Liberation Party/meta/color; color:white" | 52 | Leonel Fernández (born in 1953) |
2004 | 16 August 2004 | 16 August 2012 | Dominican Liberation Party | |
| 2008 | ||||||
| style="background:Template:Dominican Liberation Party/meta/color; color:white" | 53 | Danilo Medina (born in 1951) |
2012 | 16 August 2012 | 16 August 2016 | Dominican Liberation Party | |
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- Notes
- ▼ Resigned for health problems or elderly
- † Died in office
List of unofficial Presidents of the Dominican Republic
Supreme Chiefs or Protectors
- Pedro Santana (Supreme Chief): 30 May – 23 September 1849
- Junior Mejia (Supreme Chief): 16 March – 5 December 1878
Spanish Governors-General of Santo Domingo (1861–1865)
- Pedro Santana: 18 March 1861 – 20 July 1862
- Felipe Ribero: 20 July 1862 – 22 October 1863
- Carlos de Vargas: 22 October 1863 – 30 March 1864
- José de la Gándara: 31 March 1864 – 11 July 1865
Heads of State of the Dominican Republic (1863–1865)
- José Antonio Salcedo: 14 September 1863 – 10 October 1864
- Gaspar Polanco: 10 October 1864 – 23 January 1865
- Generals-in-Chief (Pedro Antonio Pimentel, Benito Monción, Federico de Jesús García) : 23 January – 24 January 1865
- Benigno Filomeno de Rojas: 24 January – 24 March 1865
In rebellion (1867–1868)
- José Hungría: 22 December 1867 – 13 February 1868
Constitutional Executive Junta (in rebellion, February, 1876)
In rebellion (1878)
- Ignacio María González: 1 March – 3 May 1878
United States Governors of Santo Domingo (1916–1922)
- Harry Shepard Knapp: 29 November 1916 – 18 November 1918
- Ben Hebard Fuller: 18 November 1918 – 25 February 1919
- Thomas Snowden: 25 February 1919 – 3 June 1921
- Samuel Robison: 3 June 1921 – 21 October 1922
In rebellion (1963)
- Juan Casasnovas Garrido: 13 October – 4 November 1963
President with Constitutionalist de jure and de facto
- Francisco Caamaño: 4 May – 3 September 1965
Latest election
Template:Dominican Republic presidential election, 2012
See also
- [1] at the Galería de presidentes de la República Dominicana
- Politics of the Dominican Republic
- List of Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic
Notes
- ^ Suspended for two months.
- ^ Supported by the Jimenists.
- ^ Unrecognized because Provisional President, but elected in 1912.
- ^ Supported by the Horacists.
- ^ Officially Jimenist, supported by the Horacists.
- ^ Appointed by the United States.
- ^ Chairman of the Military Junta Triumvirate.
- ^ Appointed by the United States.
