Unlike many of the other countries in the region, Chile has a long history of democratic Presidents. The President of Chile is both the chief of state and the chief of government.
Here is the full list of them:
- Manuel Blanco Encalda 1826
- Agustín Eyzaguirre 1826 - 1827
- Ramón Freire y Serrano 1827
- Francisco Antonio Pinto Díaz 1827 - 1829
- José Tomás Ovalle 1830 - 1831
- José Joaquín Prieto Vial 1831 - 1841
- Manuel Bulnes Prieto 1841 - 1851
- Manuel Montt Torres 1851 - 1861
- José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano 1861 - 1871
- Federico Errázuriz Zañartu 1871 - 1876
- Anibal Pinto Garmendia 1876 - 1881
- Domingo Santa María 1881 - 1886
- José Manuel Balmaceda 1886 - 1891
- Jorge Montt Alvarez 1891 - 1896
- Federico Errázuriz Echaurren 1896 - 1901
- Germán Riesco Errázuriz 1901 - 1906
- Pedro Montt Montt 1906 - 1910
- Ramón Barros Luco 1910 - 1915
- Juan Luis Sanfuentes 1915 - 1920
- Arturo Alessandri Palma 1920 - 1925
- Luis Barros Borgoño 1925
- Emiliano Figueroa Larraín 1925 - 1927
- Carlos Ibáñez del Campo 1927 - 1931
- Juan Esteban Montero 1931 - 1932
- Arturo Alessandri Palma 1932-1938
- Pedro Aguirre Cerda 1938 - 1941
- Jerónimo Méndez 1941 - 1942 (interin)
- Juan Antonio Ríos 1942 - 1946
- Gabriel González Videla 1946 - 1952
- Carlos Ibañez del Campo 1952 - 1958
- Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez 1958 - 1964
- Eduardo Frei Montalva 1964 - 1970
- Salvador Allende Gossens 1970 - 1973
- Augusto Pinochet Ugarte 1973 - 1990 (came to power in a coup d'etat)
- Patricio Aylwin Azócar 1990 - 1994
- Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle 1994 - 2000
- Ricardo Lagos Escobar 2000 - 2006 (end of the period)
- Bernardo O´Higgins Riquelme 1820-1823
- Agustín Manuel de Eyzaguirre y Arechavala 1823-1823
- Plenipotentiary Congress: Juan Egaña Risco, Manuel Fernando Vásquez de Novoa y López de Artigas, Manuel Antonio González Valenzuela 1823
- Ramón Freire Serrano 1823
- Supreme Junta of diputados: Mariano Egaña Fabres, Santiago Fernández y González Barriga, Diego José Benavente y García de Bustamante 1823
- Ramón Freire Serrano 1826
People who temporary fulfilled the role of President
- Francisco R. Vicuña (1829)
- Francisco Ruiz Tagle (1830)
- F. Errázuriz (1831)
- E. Fernández Albano (1910)
- E. Figueroa (1910)
- Luis Altamirano (1924-1925)
- Emiliano Bello C (1925)
- Pedro Opazo (1931)
- Manuel Trucco (1931)
- Carlos Dávila (1932)
- Guillermo Blanche (1932)
- Abraham Oyanedel (1932)
- Alfredo Duhalde (1946)