List of Presidents of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica

President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
Coat of arms of Costa Rica
Incumbent Antonio Álvarez Desanti since 1 May 2015
Term length	One year
Inaugural holder	Marcial Rodríguez Conejo
Formation	1 May 1949

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The President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is the presiding officer of that legislature.

President of the Sixth Constituent Assembly

Name	Period
Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	October 1871 – December 1871

Presidents of the Constitutional Congress

Name	Period
Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	1872–1876
Víctor Guardia Gutiérrez	1882–1883
Juan Manuel Carazo Peralta	1883–1886
Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz	1886–1889
Manuel Aragón Quesada	1889–1890
Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1890–1892
Carlos Durán Cartín	1892
Pedro León Páez Brown	1894–1900
Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1900–1903
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	1903–1904
Mauro Fernández Acuña	1904–1905
Federico Tinoco Iglesias	1905–1908
Juan Bautista Quirós Segura	1908–1909
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	1909–1910
Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias	1910–1913
Máximo Fernández Alvarado	1913–1914
Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas	1914–1916
Máximo Fernández Alvarado	1916–1917

President of the Seventh Constituent Assembly

Name	Period
Leonidas Pachecos Cabezas	April 1917 – June 1917

In 1917 the legislature became bicameral

Presidents of the Senate

Name	Period
Daniel Nuñez Gutiérrez	1917–1918
Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1918–1919

Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

Name	Period
José Astúa Aguilar	1917–1918
Francisco Faerron Gutiérrez	1918–1919

In 1919 the legislature became unicameral.

Presidents of the Constitutional Congress

Name	Period
Arturo Volio Jiménez	1920–1925
León Cortés Castro	1925–1926
Arturo Volio Jiménez	1926–1929
Alexandro Alvarado Quirós	1929–1930
Oscar Rohrmoser Carranza	1930–1931
Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1931–1932
Arturo Volio Jiménez	1932–1935
Ricardo Castro Beeche	1935–1936
Juan Rafael Arias Borilla	1936–1938
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia	1938–1940
Otto Cortés Fernández	1940–1941
Teodoro Picado Michalski	1941–1944
José Albertazzi Avedaño	1944–1945
Rafael Ángel Grillo Ocampo	1945–1946
Francisco Fonseca Chanier	1946–1948

President of the Eighth Constituent Assembly

Name	Period
Marcial Rodríguez Conejo	Januar 1949 – November 1949

Presidents of the Legislative Assembly

Name	Period
Marcial Rodríguez Conejo	1949–1952
Abelardo Bonilla Balladares	1952–1953
Álvaro Montero Padilla	1958–1960
Fernando Lara Bustamante	1960–1961
Mario Leiva Quirós	1961–1962
Carlos Espinach Escalante	1962–1963
Rafael París Steffens	1963–1964
Rolando Solano Orfila	1964–1965
Rodrigo Carazo Odio	1966–1967
Hernán Garrón Salazar	1967–1968
Fernando Volio Jiménez	1968–1969
José Luis Molina Quesada	1969–1970
Daniel Oduber Quirós	1970–1973
Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez	1973–1974
Alfonso Carro Zuñiga	1974–1977
Elias Soley Soler	1977–1978
Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto	1978–1979
Ramón Aguilera Facio	1979–1980
Rafael Grillo Rivera	1980–1981
Cristian Tattenbach Iglesias	1981–1982
Hernán Gárron Salazar	1982–1983
Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla	1983–1984
Bernal Jiménez Monge	1984–1985
Guillermo Vargas Sanabril	1985–1986
Rosemary Karspinsky Dodero	1986–1987
Fernando Voli Jiménez	1987–1988
José Luis Valenciano Chaves	1988–1989
Allen Arias Angulo	1989–1990
Juan José Trejos Fonseca	1990–1991
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría	1991–1992
Roberto Tovar Faja	1992–1993
Danilo Chaverri Soto	1993–1994
Alberto Cañas Escalante	1994–1995
Antonio Álvarez Desanti	1995–1996
Walter Coto Molina	1996–1997
Saúl Weisleder Weisleder	1997–1998
Luis Fishman Zonzinski	1998–1999
Carlos Vargas Pagán	1999–2000
Rina Contreras López	2000–2001
Ovidio Pacheco Salazar	2001–2002
Rolando Laclé Castro	2002–2003
Mario Redondo Poveda	2003–2004
Gerardo González Esquivel	2004–2005
Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández	2006–2010
Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge	2010–2011
Juan Carlos Mendoza García	2011–2012
Víctor Emilio Granados Calvo	2012–2013
Luis Fernando Mendoza Jiménez	2013–2014
Henry Mora Jiménez	2014–2015
Rafael Ortiz Fábrega	2015

Sources

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