List of heads of state of Argentina

Argentina has had many different types of heads of state, as well as many different types of government. During pre-Columbian times, most of the territories that today form Argentina were inhabited by Amerindian peoples without any centralized government, with the exception of the Inca subjects of the Northwest and Cuyo regions. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the King of Spain retained the ultimate authority over the territories conquered in the New World, appointing viceroys for local government. The territories that would later become Argentina were first part of the Viceroyalty of Peru and then the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. The May Revolution started the Argentine War of Independence by replacing the viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros with the first national government. It was the Primera Junta, a junta of several members, which would grow into the Junta Grande with the incorporation of provincial deputies. The size of the juntas gave room to internal political disputes among their members, so they were replaced by the First and Second Triumvirate, of three members. The Assembly of the Year XIII created a new executive authority, with attributions similar to that of a head of state, called the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. A second Assembly, the Congress of Tucumán, declared independence in 1816 and promulgated the Argentine Constitution of 1819. However, this constitution was repealed during armed conflicts between the central government and the Federal League Provinces. This started a period known as the Anarchy of the Year XX, when Argentina lacked any type of head of state.

There was a new attempt to organize a central government in 1826. A new congress wrote a new constitution and elected Bernardino Rivadavia as President in the process. Rivadavia was the first President of Argentina. However, he resigned shortly after and the 1826 Constitution was repealed. The Argentine provinces then organized themselves as a confederation without a central head of state. In this organization, the governors of Buenos Aires province took some duties such as the payment of external debt or the administration of the foreign relations in the name of all provinces. Those governors were appointed by the Buenos Aires legislature, with the only exception of Juan Lavalle. Juan Manuel de Rosas kept the governor office for seventeen consecutive years until Justo José de Urquiza defeated him at the 1852 Battle of Caseros. Urquiza then called for a new Constitutional Assembly and promulgated the Argentine Constitution of 1853, which is the current Constitution of Argentina through amendments. In 1854, Urquiza became the first President of modern Argentina, acting both as head of government and head of state. However, the Buenos Aires Province had rejected the Constitution and became an independent state until the aftermath of the 1859 Battle of Cepeda, although the internecine conflict continued. Only after the subsequent Battle of Pavón in 1861, the former bonaerense leader Bartolomé Mitre became the first president of a unified Argentine Republic.

The succession line of constitutional presidents run uninterrupted until 1930, when José Félix Uriburu took government through a civic-military coup d'état. For many decades, there was an alternance between legitimate presidents and others that took government through illegitimate means. Those means included military coups, but also proscriptions of major political parties and electoral fraud. The last coup d'état occurred in 1976 and resulted in the National Reorganization Process, which ended in 1983. The retrospective recognition as presidents or heads of state of any de facto ruler that exercised its authority outside the Constitutional mandate is a controversial and relevant issue in Argentine politics. However, their government actions were recognized as valid following the de facto government doctrine that used to legitimize them. This doctrine was rejected by the 1994 amendment and would not be applicable for potential future coups. The current head of state is President Javier Milei, who took office on 10 December 2023.

Affiliation keys

{| class="wikitable"

! colspan="2" |Abbreviation

! Party name (English)

! Party name (Spanish)

! Years

| bgcolor=Lightblue|

| Unitarian

| Unitarian Party

| Partido Unitario

| 1826–1827, 1828–1829

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| Federal

| Federalist Party

| Partido Federal

| 1827–1828, 1829–1861

| bgcolor=White|

| Liberal

| Liberal Party

| Partido Liberal

| 1862–1868

| bgcolor=Lightgray|

| —

| Independent politician

| Político independiente

| 1868–1874

| bgcolor="#30D5C8" |

| PAN

| National Autonomist Party

| Partido Autonomista Nacional

| 1874–1916

| bgcolor=#C90016|

| UCR

| Radical Civic Union

| Unión Cívica Radical

| 1916–1930, 1958–1966, 1983–1989, 1999–2001

| bgcolor=#138808|

| Military

| Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic

| Fuerzas Armadas de la República Argentina

| 1930–1932, 1943–1946, 1955–1958, 1966–1973, 1976–1983

| bgcolor=#E9D66B|

| Concordancia

| 1932–1943

| bgcolor="#75AADB" |

| PJ

|Justicialist Party

| Partido Justicialista

| 1946–1955, 1973–1976, 1989–1999, 2001–2015, 2019–2023

| bgcolor=gold|

| PRO

| Republican Proposal

| Propuesta Republicana

| 2015–2019

| bgcolor=|

| PL

| Libertarian Party

| Partido Libertario

| 2023–present

United Provinces of the Río de la Plata (1810–1831)

Junta presidents (1810–1811)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

!rowspan=2 width="10%"|Portrait

!rowspan=2 width="25%"|Name

!colspan=3 width="31.4%"|Term of office

!rowspan=2 width="26%"|Notes

!rowspan="2" width="1%"|

!Start

!End

!Time in office

| rowspan=2| 128x128px

| rowspan=2| Cornelio Saavedra

| 25 May 1810

| 18 December 1810

|217 days

| align=left| President of the Primera Junta, at the beginning of the Argentine War of Independence. He is regarded as the first president of a national government.

| rowspan="2" |

| 18 December 1810

| 26 August 1811

|140 days

| align=left| President of the Junta Grande. Left to serve in the Army of the North.

| 100px

| Domingo Matheu

| 26 August 1811

| 23 September 1811

|13 days

| align=left| President of the Junta Grande, from Saavedra's departure to the dissolution of it.

Triumvirates (1811–1814)

{| width=100% class="wikitable"

! colspan=4| <big>First Triumvirate</big> 23 September 1811 – 8 October 1812

! 23 September 1811 – 23 March 1812

! 23 March 1812 – 8 October 1812

| colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Feliciano Chiclana

| colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Manuel de Sarratea

| style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Juan José Paso

| style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Juan Martín de Pueyrredón

{| width=100% class="wikitable"

! colspan=4| <big>Second Triumvirate</big> 8 October 1812 – 31 January 1814

! 8 October 1812 – 20 February 1813

! 20 February 1813 – 19 August 1813

! 19 August 1813 – 5 November 1813

! 5 November 1813 – 31 January 1814

| colspan="4" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Nicolás Rodríguez Peña

| colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Antonio Álvarez Jonte

| colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Gervasio Antonio de Posadas

| style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Juan José Paso

| colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px José Julián Pérez

| style="vertical-align: top;" align="center" | middle|100px Juan Larrea

Supreme Directors (1814–1820)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

! rowspan=2 width="10%"|Portrait

! rowspan=2 width="25%"|Name

! colspan=3 width="31.4%"|Term of office

! rowspan=2 width="26%"|Notes

! rowspan="2" width="1%" |

! Start

! End

! Time in office

| 100px

| Gervasio Antonio de Posadas

| 31 January 1814

| 9 January 1815

| align=left| Chosen by the Assembly of the Year 1813.

| 100px

| Carlos María de Alvear

| 9 January 1815

| 18 April 1815

| align=left| Forced to resign by a mutiny.

| 100px 100px 100px

| José de San Martín Matías de Irigoyen Manuel de Sarratea

| 18 April 1815

| 20 April 1815

| align=left| Third Triumvirate. Interim government until the appointment of a new Supreme Director.

| 100px

| José Rondeau

| 20 April 1815

| 21 April 1815

| align=left| Appointed successor of Alvear, could not take office because he was in command of the Army of the North

| 100px

| Ignacio Álvarez Thomas

| 21 April 1815

| 16 April 1816

| align=left| Acting, for Rondeau. Convened the Congress of Tucumán, that would declare Independence.

| 100px

| Antonio González de Balcarce

| 16 April 1816

| 9 July 1816

| align=left| Interim.

| 100px

| Juan Martín de Pueyrredón

| 9 July 1816

| 9 June 1819

| align=left| First Argentine Head of State after the Argentine Declaration of Independence. Supported the Crossing of the Andes.

| 100px

| José Rondeau

| 9 June 1819

| 1 February 1820

| align=left| Decisively defeated at the Battle of Cepeda by Federalist forces opposed to the 1819 centralist Constitution.

| 100px

| Juan Pedro Aguirre

| 1 February 1820

| 11 February 1820

| align=left| Interim. Dissolved the National Congress and endorsed the Buenos Aires Cabildo to choose a Governor for Buenos Aires Province instead of the previous post of Governor Mayor.

Governors of Buenos Aires Province managing international relations (1820–1826)

Between 1820 and 1826, the United Provinces functioned as a loose alliance of autonomous provinces put together by pacts and treaties (see Treaty of Pilar, Treaty of Benegas, Quadrilateral Treaty), but lacking any actual central government until the 1825 Constitutional Congress.

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

!rowspan=2 width="10%"|Portrait

!rowspan=2 width="25%"|Name

!colspan=2 width="31.4%"|Term of office

!rowspan=2 width="26%"|Notes

!rowspan=2 width="1%"|

!Start

!End

| 100px

| Matías de Irigoyen

| 11 February 1820

| 18 February 1820

| align=left| He had been Governor Mayor from 9 to 11 February 1820 and was promoted interim as Governor until the appointment of Manuel de Sarratea.

| 100px

| Manuel de Sarratea

| 18 February 1820

| 6 March 1820

| align=left| The political crisis that existed in the country led to his government lacked support from both Buenos Aires and the other provinces. Thus he resigned shortly afterwards.

| 100px

| Juan Ramón Balcarce

| 6 March 1820

| 11 March 1820

| align=left| Interim. Resigned.

| 100px

| Manuel de Sarratea

| 11 March 1820

| 2 May 1820

| align=left| He returned to office after the end of the brief government of Balcarce. The circumstances did not improve and ended up resigning a second time.

| 100px

| Ildefonso Ramos Mexía

| 2 May 1820

| 20 June 1820

| align=left|

| 100px

| Ildefonso Ramos Mexía and Miguel Estanislao Soler

| 20 June 1820

| 23 June 1820

| align=left| They took power simultaneously.

| 100px

| Miguel Estanislao Soler

| 23 June 1820

| 29 June 1820

| align=left| He assumed de facto, after an armed uprising, but his government lasted a few days, when the Board of Representatives appointed Manuel Dorrego.

| 100px

| Manuel Dorrego

| 29 June 1820

| 20 September 1820

| align=left| Interim.

| 100px

| Martín Rodríguez

| 20 September 1820

| 2 April 1824

| align=left| He signed the Treaty of Benegas and the Quadrilateral.

| 100px

| Juan Gregorio de las Heras

| 2 April 1824

| 7 February 1826

| align=left| He called a Constituent Congress that enacted several laws for which the Unitary Republic was proclaimed. He resigned because of that republic.

First presidential government (1826–1827)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

! colspan="2" rowspan="2" width="1%" |Portrait

!rowspan=2 width="25%"|Name

!colspan=2 width="31.4%"|Term of office

! rowspan="2" |Elections

!rowspan=2 | Political party

!rowspan=2 width="26%"|Notes

!rowspan=2 width="1%"|

!Start

!End

| bgcolor=Lightblue|

| 100px

| Bernardino Rivadavia

| 8 February 1826

| 27 June 1827

| rowspan="2" |1826

| Unitarian

| align=left| Elected by the Constituent Assembly of 1826, before the promulgation of the 1826 constitution.

| bgcolor=Lightblue|

| 100px

| Juan Lavalle

| 1 December 1828

| 26 June 1829

| Unitarian

| align=left| Coup d'état. Defeated in battle, resigned under siege

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Juan José Viamonte

| 26 June 1829

| 6 December 1829

| rowspan="2" | Federal

| align=left| Interim.

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Juan Manuel de Rosas

| 6 December 1829

| 4 January 1831

| align=left| First term. Convened the Federal Pact and waged war against the Unitarian League.

Argentine Confederation (1831–1861)

Governors managing international relations (1831–1852)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Portrait

!rowspan=2|Name

!colspan=2|Term of office

!rowspan=2|Political party

!rowspan=2 width=30%|Notes

!rowspan=2|

!Start

!End

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Juan Manuel de Rosas

| 4 January 1831

| 5 December 1832

| rowspan="5" | Federal

| align=left| Governor of Buenos Aires Province. First term. Convened the Federal Pact and waged war against the Unitarian League. Resigned.

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Juan José Viamonte

| 4 November 1833

| 27 June 1834

| align=left| Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Interim.

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Manuel Vicente Maza

| 27 June 1834

| 7 March 1835

| align=left| Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Interim.

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Juan Manuel de Rosas

| 7 March 1835

| 3 February 1852

| align=left| Governor of Buenos Aires Province with the sum of public power; it is usually considered as a coup. Second term. Waged the Argentine and Uruguayan Civil Wars, the War of the Confederation and the French and Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata. Designated "Supreme Chief of the Argentine Confederation" in 1851. Defeated by Justo José de Urquiza at the Battle of Caseros. Resigned.

| bgcolor=Lightgrey|

| 100px

| Vicente López y Planes

| 3 February 1852

| 6 April 1852

| —

| align=left| Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Interim. From 6 April through 26 July 1852 remained as Governor of Buenos Aires Province, but without national powers.

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Justo José de Urquiza

| 6 April 1852

| 31 May 1852

| Federal

| align=left| Governor of Entre Ríos Province in charge of the foreign relations of the Confederation.

Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation (1852–1854)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Portrait

!rowspan=2|Name

!colspan=2|Term of office

!rowspan=2|Political party

!rowspan=2 width=30%|Notes

!rowspan=2|

!Start

!End

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Justo José de Urquiza

| 31 May 1852

| 5 March 1854

| Federal

| align=left| Simultaneously, Governor of Entre Ríos Province and of Buenos Aires Province (from 26 July 1852 to 4 September 1852). On 11 September 1852, the Province of Buenos Aires seceded from the Confederation as the State of Buenos Aires. On 1 May 1853, the current Constitution of Argentina was ratified by all the provinces, except from Buenos Aires.

Presidents of the Confederation (1854–1861)

{| class="wikitable" width="100%" style="text-align: center;"

!rowspan=2 colspan=2|Portrait

!rowspan=2|Name (Birth–Death)

!colspan=2|Term of office

!rowspan=2|Elections

!rowspan=2|Political party

!rowspan=2 width=30%|Notes

!rowspan=2|Vice President

!rowspan=2|

!Start

!End

| bgcolor=#B31B1B|

| 100px

| Justo José de Urquiza (1801–1870)

| 5 March 1854

| 5 March 1860

| 1853

| rowspan="2" | Federal

| align=left| Indirect elections. First constitutional President of Argentina. The reincoporation of the State of Buenos Aires was negotiated after the 1859 Battle of Cepeda in the Pact of San José de Flores.

| Salvador María del Carril

| bgcolor=Lightblue|

| 100px

| Juan Esteban Pedernera (1796–1886)

| 5 November 1861

| 12 December 1861

| Unitarian

| align=left| Vice President under Derqui, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Resigned on the dissolution of the national government.

| 12 April 1862

| 2 June 1862

| align=left|Appointed himself by decree as "Governor of Buenos Aires Province in charge of the National Executive Power".

| 2 June 1862

| 12 October 1862

| align=left| The National Congress appointed the Governor of Buenos Aires as the person in charge of the National Executive Power until elections were held.

| rowspan=2| 12 October 1862

| rowspan=2| 12 October 1868

| rowspan=2| 1862

| rowspan=2| Liberal Nacionalist

| align=left rowspan=2| Indirect elections with Mitre as the only candidate. First president of the unified country. Waged the War of the Triple Alliance.

| Marcos Paz (Died 2 January 1868) Acting President of Argentina from 12 June 1865 until 2 January 1868.

| rowspan=2|

| bgcolor=Lightgrey|

| 100px

| Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811–1888)

| 12 October 1868

| 12 October 1874

| 1868

| —

| align=left| Indirect elections. Ended the War of the Triple Alliance.

| Adolfo Alsina

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman (1844–1909)

| 12 October 1886

| 6 August 1890

| rowspan=2|1886

| PAN

| align=left| Indirect elections. Resigned following the Revolution of the Park.

| Carlos Pellegrini

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Carlos Pellegrini (1846–1906)

| 6 August 1890

| 12 October 1892

| PAN

| align=left| Vice President under Juárez Celman, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Finished the presidential period 1886–1892.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| José Evaristo Uriburu (1831–1914)

| 22 January 1895

| 12 October 1898

| PAN

| align=left| Vice President under Sáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his resignation. Finished the presidential period 1892–1898.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Manuel Quintana (1835–1906)

| 12 October 1904

| 12 March 1906 †

| rowspan=3|1904

| PAN

| align=left| Indirect elections. Government victory in the Revolution of 1905. Died in office.

| José Figueroa Alcorta

| rowspan=2 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=2| 100px

| rowspan=2| José Figueroa Alcorta (1860–1931)

| height="60px"| 25 January 1906

| 12 March 1906

| rowspan=2| PAN

| align=left| Vice President under Quintana. Acting president during his illness.

| rowspan=2|

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Victorino de la Plaza (1840–1919)

| 9 August 1914

| 12 October 1916

| PAN

| align=left| Vice President under Sáenz Peña, assumed the presidency after his death. Finished the presidential period 1910–1916.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1868–1942)

| 12 October 1922

| 12 October 1928

| 1922

| UCR

| align=left| Free indirect elections.

| Elpidio González

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Enrique Martínez (1887–1938)

| 5 September 1930

| 6 September 1930

| —

| UCR

| align=left| Vice President under Yrigoyen. Acting president during his illness. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.

| rowspan=2 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=2|100px

| rowspan=2|José Félix Uriburu (1868–1932)

| rowspan=2|6 September 1930

| rowspan=2|20 February 1932

| rowspan=2|—

| rowspan=2|Military

| rowspan=2 align=left| First coup d'état in modern Argentine history. Beginning of the Infamous Decade. Called for elections.

| Enrique Santamarina (Resigned 20 October 1930)

| rowspan=2|

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Agustín Pedro Justo (1876–1943)

| 20 February 1932

| 20 February 1938

| 1931

| UCR-A (Concordancia)

| align=left| Indirect elections held with fraud and with the UCR barred from elections.

| Julio Argentino Pascual Roca

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Roberto Marcelino Ortiz (1886–1942)

| 20 February 1938

| 27 June 1942

| rowspan=3| 1937

| UCR-A (Concordancia)

| align=left| Indirect elections held with fraud. Resigned for health reasons, died one month later.

| Ramón Castillo

| rowspan=2 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=2| 100px

| rowspan=2| Ramón Castillo (1873–1944)

| height="60px"| 3 July 1940

| 27 June 1942

| rowspan=2| PDN (Concordancia)

| align=left| Vice President under Ortiz. Acting president during his illness.

| rowspan=2|

| rowspan=2

| rowspan=3| 4 June 1952

| rowspan=3| 21 September 1955

| rowspan=3| 1951

| rowspan=3| Peronist

| rowspan=3 align=left| Free direct elections. Second term. First election to allow women's suffrage. Victory with 62.49% of votes, highest victory in Argentine elections. Ousted from office by a coup d'état.

| Alberto Teisaire (7 May 1954–16 September 1955)

| rowspan=2

| rowspan="2" bgcolor="""" |

| rowspan="2" | 100px

| rowspan="2" | Eduardo Lonardi (1896–1956)

| 16 September 1955

| 23 September 1955

| rowspan=2 | —

| rowspan=2 | Military

| align="left" | Coup d'état. Beginning of the Revolución Libertadora. By decree appointed himself as "Provisional President of the Nation"; from 19 September 1955 until 23 September 1955, the office was disputed with José Domingo Molina Gómez, the leader of the military junta.

| rowspan="2" |

| 23 September 1955

| 13 November 1955

| align=left| Lonardi is sworn in as president. Ousted from office.

| rowspan=2| Isaac Rojas

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1903–1970)

| 13 November 1955

| 1 May 1958

| —

| Military

| align=left| Coup d'état. The 1949 Constitution is repealed and the 1853 Constitution is restored. End of the Revolución Libertadora. Called for elections with Peronism barred from elections.

| rowspan=2

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| José María Guido (1910–1975)

| 29 March 1962

| 12 October 1963

| —

| UCRI

| align=left| Provisional President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power, as the civil procedures to replace the deposed president were followed and Vice President Alejandro Gómez had resigned in 1958.

|

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces

| 28 June 1966

| 29 June 1966

| —

| Military

| align=left|

| rowspan=6

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Juan Carlos Onganía (1914–1995)

| 29 June 1966

| 8 June 1970

| —

| Military

| align=left| Coup d'état. Ousted from office.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Raúl Alberto Lastiri (1915–1978)

| 13 July 1973

| 12 October 1973

| —

| PJ (FREJULI)

| align=left| President of the Chamber of Deputies exercising the Executive Power. Alejandro Díaz Bialet, President of the Senate and ahead of Lastiri in the succession line, was on a diplomatic mission in Africa at that time.

|

| height="60px"| 1 July 1974

| 24 March 1976

| align=left| Vice President of Juan Perón, assumed the presidency after his death. First female president in the Americas. From 13 September 1975 until 16 October 1975, Provisional President of the Senate Ítalo Argentino Luder exercised the Executive Power, due to the health problems of the president. She got ousted from office by a coup d'état.

| rowspan=9

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Military Junta

| 24 March 1976

| 29 March 1976

| —

| Military

| align=left|

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013)

| 29 March 1976

| 29 March 1981

| —

| Military

| align=left| Coup d'état. President of the Military Junta. Longest government of a de facto ruler.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924–1994)

| 29 March 1981

| 11 December 1981

| —

| Military

| align=left| Appointed by Videla as President of the Military Junta. Powers and duties suspended on 21 November 1981 due to health problems. Ousted from office.

| rowspan=3 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=3| 100px

| rowspan=3| (Presidency) Carlos Menem (1930–2021)

| rowspan=2 height="60px"| 8 July 1989

| rowspan=2| 8 July 1995

| rowspan=2| 1989

| rowspan=2| PJ (FREJUPO)

| rowspan=2 align=left| Free indirect elections. First term. The 1994 amendment reduced the presidential term from 6 to 4 years and allowed a single consecutive reelection.

| Eduardo Duhalde (Resigned 10 December 1991)

| rowspan=3|

| height="60px"| 8 July 1995

| 10 December 1999

| 1995

| PJ (UCeDe)

| align=left| Free direct elections. Second term. His term was extended to 10 December 1999 according to the Tenth Temporary Provision of the Constitution of 1994.

| Carlos Ruckauf

| rowspan=2 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=2| 100px

| rowspan=2| (Presidency) Fernando de la Rúa (1937–2019)

| rowspan=2| 10 December 1999

| rowspan=2| 21 December 2001

| rowspan=2| 1999

| rowspan=2| UCR (Alianza)

| rowspan=2 align=left| Free direct elections. Faced a severe economic crisis. Resigned after the December 2001 riots. Because his Vice President Carlos Álvarez had resigned in October 2000, the Congress Assembled selected a new president.

| Carlos Álvarez (Resigned 6 October 2000)

| rowspan=2|

| rowspan=5

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Ramón Puerta (born 1951)

| 21 December 2001

| 23 December 2001

| —

| PJ

| align=left| Provisional President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (born 1947)

| 23 December 2001

| 30 December 2001

| —

| PJ

| align=left| Elected by the Congress for three months, with instructions to call for elections. Resigned.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Eduardo Camaño (born 1946)

| 30 December 2001

| 2 January 2002

| —

| PJ

| align=left| President of the Chamber of Deputies exercising the Executive Power.

| bgcolor=""|

| 100px

| Eduardo Duhalde (born 1941)

| 2 January 2002

| 25 May 2003

| —

| PJ

| align=left| Elected by the Congress, with instructions to complete De la Rúa's term. Called early elections for 27 April 2003.

| rowspan=2 bgcolor=""|

| rowspan=2| 132x132px

| rowspan=2| (Presidency) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953)

| height="60px"| 10 December 2007

| 10 December 2011

| 2007

| PJ (FPV)

| align=left| Free direct elections. First term. First elected female president of Argentina.

| Julio Cobos

| height="60px"| 10 December 2011

| 10 December 2015

| 2011

| PJ (FPV)

| align=left| Free direct elections. Second term. By judicial ruling, her mandate ended 9 December 2015 at midnight.

| Amado Boudou

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| Federico Pinedo (born 1955)

|align=center colspan=2| 10 December 2015

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| PRO (Cambiemos)

| align=left| Provisional President of the Senate exercising the Executive Power. Acting president from 00:00 hs. until Macri's swearing in at 11:45 hs.