List of heads of state of Panama
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| President of the Republic of Panama
Presidente de la República de Panamá | |
|---|---|
 Presidential standard | |
 Coat of arms of Panama | |
| Residence | Palacio de las Garzas, Panama City |
| Term length | Five years, renewable once non-consecutively |
| Precursor | Martín Torrijos |
| Inaugural holder | Manuel Amador Guerrero |
| Formation | 20 February 1904 |
| Deputy | Vice President of Panama |
| Salary | 7,000 USD per month[1] |
| Website | Presidencia de la República |
This is a list of head of state of Panama.
Free State of the Isthmus (1840–1841)
[change | change source]| No. | Portrait | President (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 | 
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Juan López (1823–1874) |
18 November 1840 | 20 March 1841 | 122 days | Superior Civil Chief |
| 2 | 
|
Tomás de Herrera (1804–1854) |
20 March 1841 | 8 June 1841 | 80 days | Superior Chief of State |
| (2) | 8 June 1841 | 31 December 1841 | 206 days | President | ||
Republic of Panama (1903–present)
[change | change source]President of the Municipal Council of Panama and de facto President (1903)
[change | change source]| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 3 | 
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Demetrio H. Brid (1859–1917) |
3 November 1903 | 4 November 1903 | 1 day | Conservative Party |
Members of the Provisional Government Junta (1903–1904)
[change | change source]| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 4 | 
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José Agustín Arango (1841–1909) |
4 November 1903 | 20 February 1904 | 108 days | National Liberal Party |
| 5 | 
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Tomás Arias (1856–1932) |
Independent | |||
| 6 | 
|
Federico Boyd (1851–1924) |
National Liberal Party | |||
| 7 | 
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Manuel Espinosa Batista (1857–1919) |
9 November 1903 | 7 December 1903 | 28 days | National Liberal Party |
Presidents of Panama (1904–present)
[change | change source]| No. | Portrait | President (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political Party | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| 1 | 
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Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833–1909) |
1904 | 20 February 1904 | 23 June 1907[2] | 3 years, 123 days | Conservative Party | |
| 2 | 
|
José Domingo de Obaldía (1845–1910) |
— | 24 June 1907[2] | 27 December 1907[2] | 186 days | National Liberal Party | |
| (1) |
|
Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833–1909) |
— | 29 December 1907[2] | 1 October 1908 | 277 days | Conservative Party | |
| (2) |
|
José Domingo de Obaldía (1845–1910) |
1908 | 1 October 1908 | 1 March 1910 | 1 year, 151 days | National Liberal Party | Died in office. |
| — | 
|
Carlos Antonio Mendoza (1856–1916) |
— | 1 March 1910 | 1 October 1910 | 214 days | National Liberal Party | Acting President. |
| — |
|
Federico Boyd (1851–1924) |
— | 1 October 1910 | 5 October 1910 | 4 days | National Liberal Party | Acting President. |
| — | 
|
Pablo Arosemena (1836–1920) |
— | 5 October 1910 | 1 October 1912 | 1 year, 362 days | National Liberal Party | Acting President. |
| 3 | 
|
Belisario Porras Barahona (1856–1942) |
1912 | 1 October 1912 | 1 October 1916 | 4 years | National Liberal Party | First tenure. |
| 4 | 
|
Ramón Maximiliano Valdés (1867–1918) |
1916 | 1 October 1916 | 3 June 1918 | 1 year, 245 days | National Liberal Party | Died in office. |
| — | 
|
Ciro Luis Urriola (1863–1922) |
— | 3 June 1918 | 1 October 1918 | 120 days | National Liberal Party | Acting President. |
| — | 
|
Pedro Antonio Díaz (1852–1919) |
— | 1 October 1918 | 12 October 1918 | 11 days | Conservative Party | Acting President. |
| (3) |
|
Belisario Porras Barahona (1856–1942) |
1918 | 12 October 1918 | 30 January 1920 | 1 year, 110 days | National Liberal Party | Second tenure. |
| — | 
|
Ernesto Tisdel Lefevre (1876–1922) |
— | 30 January 1920 | 1 October 1920 | 245 days | National Liberal Party | Acting President. |
| (3) |
|
Belisario Porras Barahona (1856–1942) |
1920 | 1 October 1920 | 1 October 1924 | 4 years | National Liberal Party | Third tenure. |
| 5 | 
|
Rodolfo Chiari (1869–1937) |
1924 | 1 October 1924 | 1 October 1928 | 4 years | National Liberal Party | |
| 6 | 
|
Florencio Harmodio Arosemena (1872–1945) |
1928 | 1 October 1928 | 3 January 1931 | 2 years, 94 days | National Liberal Party | Deposed in a coup d'état. |
| — | 
|
Harmodio Arias Madrid (1886–1963) |
— | 3 January 1931 | 16 January 1931 | 13 days | Independent | Acting President. |
| 7 | 
|
Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované (1882–1971) |
— | 16 January 1931 | 5 June 1932 | 1 year, 141 days | National Liberal Party | |
| 8 |
|
Harmodio Arias Madrid (1886–1963) |
1932 | 5 June 1932 | 1 October 1936 | 4 years, 118 days | National Revolutionary Party | |
| 9 | 
|
Juan Demóstenes Arosemena (1879–1939) |
1936 | 1 October 1936 | 16 December 1939 | 3 years, 76 days | National Liberal Party | Died in office. |
| — | 
|
Ezequiel Fernández (1886–1946) |
— | 16 December 1939 | 18 December 1939 | 2 days | National Revolutionary Party | Acting President. |
| — | 
|
Augusto Samuel Boyd (1879–1957) |
— | 18 December 1939 | 1 October 1940 | 288 days | National Revolutionary Party | Acting President. |
| 10 | 
|
Arnulfo Arias (1901–1988) |
1940 | 1 October 1940 | 9 October 1941 | 1 year, 8 days | National Revolutionary Party | First tenure. Deposed in a coup d'état. |
| 11 | 
|
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango (1899–1969) |
— | 9 October 1941 | 15 June 1945 | 3 years, 249 days | Independent | |
| — | 
|
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez (1888–1970) |
1945 | 15 June 1945 | 7 August 1948 | 3 years, 53 days | National Liberal Party | Provisional President. |
| 12 | 
|
Domingo Díaz Arosemena (1875–1949) |
1948 | 7 August 1948 | 28 July 1949 | 355 days | National Liberal Party | Resigned after a heart attack, and died less than a month later. |
| 13 |
|
Daniel Chanis Pinzón (1892–1961) |
— | 28 July 1949 | 20 November 1949 | 115 days | National Liberal Party | |
| 14 | 
|
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón (1905–1981) |
— | 20 November 1949 | 24 November 1949 | 4 days | National Liberal Party | First tenure. |
| (10) |
|
Arnulfo Arias (1901–1988) |
— | 24 November 1949 | 9 May 1951 | 1 year, 166 days | Panameñista Party | Second tenure. |
| 15 |
|
Alcibíades Arosemena (1883–1958) |
— | 9 May 1951 | 1 October 1952 | 1 year, 145 days | Authentic Revolutionary Party | |
| 16 |
|
José Antonio Remón Cantera (1908–1955) |
1952 | 1 October 1952 | 2 January 1955 | 2 years, 93 days | National Patriotic Coalition | Assassinated. |
| 17 |
|
José Ramón Guizado (1899–1964) |
— | 2 January 1955 | 29 March 1955 | 86 days | National Patriotic Coalition | |
| 18 | 
|
Ricardo Arias (1912–1993) |
— | 29 March 1955 | 1 October 1956 | 1 year, 186 days | National Patriotic Coalition | |
| 19 |
|
Ernesto de la Guardia (1904–1983) |
1956 | 1 October 1956 | 1 October 1960 | 4 years | National Patriotic Coalition | |
| (14) | 
|
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón (1905–1981) |
1960 | 1 October 1960 | 17 March 1963 | 2 years, 167 days | National Liberal Party | Second tenure. |
| — |
|
Bernardino González Ruiz (1911–2012) |
— | 17 March 1963 | 23 March 1963 | 6 days | Democratic Action Party | Acting president. |
| (14) |
|
Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón (1905–1981) |
— | 23 March 1963 | 1 October 1964 | 1 year, 192 days | National Liberal Party | Second tenure. |
| 20 |
|
Marco Aurelio Robles (1908–1990) |
1964 | 1 October 1964 | 1 October 1968 | 4 years | National Liberal Party | |
| (10) | 
|
Arnulfo Arias (1901–1988) |
1968 | 1 October 1968 | 11 October 1968 | 10 days | Panameñista Party | Third tenure. Deposed in a coup d'état. |
| — |
|
José María Pinilla Fábrega (1919–1979) |
— | 12 October 1968 | 18 December 1969 | 1 year, 67 days | Military (National Guard) |
Chairman of the Provisional Junta. |
| 21 |
|
Colonel Bolívar Urrutia Parrilla (1918–2005) |
Military (National Guard) |
President. | ||||
| — | 
|
Demetrio B. Lakas (1925–1999) |
— | 19 December 1969 | 11 October 1972 | 2 years, 297 days | Independent | Chairman of the Provisional Junta to 11 October 1972. |
| 22 | 1972 | 11 October 1972 | 11 October 1978 | 6 years | ||||
| 23 | 
|
Aristides Royo (born 1940) |
1978 | 11 October 1978 | 31 July 1982 | 3 years, 293 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | |
| 24 | 
|
Ricardo de la Espriella (born 1934) |
— | 31 July 1982 | 13 February 1984 | 1 year, 197 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | |
| 25 | 
|
Jorge Illueca (1918–2012) |
— | 13 February 1984 | 11 October 1984 | 241 days | Independent | |
| 26 | 
|
Nicolás Ardito Barletta Vallarino (born 1938) |
1984 | 11 October 1984 | 28 September 1985 | 352 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | |
| — | 
|
Eric Arturo Delvalle (1937–2015) |
— | 28 September 1985 | 26 February 1988 | 2 years, 151 days | Republican Party | Acting President. |
| — |
|
Manuel Solís Palma (1917–2009) |
— | 26 February 1988 | 1 September 1989 | 1 year, 187 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | Acting President. |
| — |
|
Francisco Rodríguez (born 1938) |
— | 1 September 1989 | 20 December 1989 | 110 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | Provisional President. Served at the time of the 1989 coup attempt. Deposed in the US invasion. |
| 27 | 
|
Guillermo Endara (1936–2009) |
1989 | 20 December 1989 | 1 September 1994 | 4 years, 255 days | Panameñista Party | |
| 28 | 
|
Ernesto Pérez Balladares (born 1946) |
1994 | 1 September 1994 | 1 September 1999 | 5 years | Democratic Revolutionary Party | |
| 29 | 
|
Mireya Moscoso (born 1946) |
1999 | 1 September 1999 | 1 September 2004 | 5 years | Panameñista Party | Widow of Arnulfo Arias. |
| 30 | 
|
Martín Torrijos (born 1963) |
2004 | 1 September 2004 | 1 July 2009 | 4 years, 303 days | Democratic Revolutionary Party | Son of Omar Torrijos. |
| 31 | 
|
Ricardo Martinelli (born 1951) |
2009 | 1 July 2009 | 1 July 2014 | 5 years | Democratic Change | |
| 32 | 
|
Juan Carlos Varela (born 1963) |
2014 | 1 July 2014 | 1 July 2019 | 5 years | Panameñista Party | |
| 33 | 
|
Laurentino Cortizo (born 1953) |
2019 | 1 July 2019 | 1 July 2024 | 5 years | Democratic Revolutionary Party | |
| 34 | 
|
José Raúl Mulino (born 1959) |
2024 | 1 July 2024 | Incumbent | 155 days | Realizing Goals | |
Military leaders of Panama (1968–1989)
[change | change source]From 1968 to 1989 a military junta exerted actual control over the country and nominated the president, who himself held little power. The following individuals were leaders of the junta.
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Military affiliation | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | 
|
Brigadier-General Omar Torrijos (1929–1981) |
11 October 1968 | 31 July 1981 | 12 years, 293 days | National Guard | Assumed power in the 1968 coup d'état. Styled as Maximum Leader of the Panamanian Revolution from 11 October 1968. Killed in an air crash. |
| 2 |
|
Colonel Rubén Darío Paredes (born 1933) |
3 March 1982 | 12 August 1983 | 1 year, 162 days | National Guard | |
| 3 | 
|
General Manuel Noriega (1934–2017) |
12 August 1983 | 20 December 1989 | 6 years, 130 days | National Guard | Styled as Maximum Leader of the National Liberation from 15 December 1989. Deposed in the US invasion. |
| Panama Defense Forces (from 29 September 1983.) | |||||||
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Shocking Gap Between Latin America's Presidential Salaries And Workers Minimum Wage". Latin Post. 22 June 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 ".:: SomosPanama.com ::". 2 April 2016. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2018.