List of presidents of the Senate of Paraguay

The president of the Senate of Paraguay is the presiding officer in the Senate of Paraguay. The president is elected by the Senate of Paraguay for one-year term.

Presidents 1870 - 1940

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Juan León Corvalán	? - April 1871	May 1871 - ?	[1]
José Mateo Collar	? - June 1871	August 1871	[2]
Juan León Corvalán	August 1871	September 1871 - ?	[3]
Salvador Jovellanos	8 December 1871	18 December 1871
Juan Bautista Gill	18 December 1871	8 March 1872	[3][1]
Juan J. Brizuela	8 March 1872	3 April 1872	[3]
Juan A. Roa	3 April 1872	22 May 1872	[3]
Miguel Palacios	22 May 1872	November 1872 - ?	[3][1]
Wenceslao Velilla	? - April 1873	November 1875 - ?	[3]
Higinio Uriarte	? - February 1876	April 1877	[4][5]
José Falcón	? - May 1877	November 1878	[6][4][5]
Adolfo Saguier	25 November 1878	8 September 1880	[7]
José Toribio Iturburú	? - April 1881	July 1881 - ?	[8]
Eusebio Bedoya	? - August 1881	October 1882	[7][9][10][11]
Benito Escauriza	October 1882	November 1882	[12]
Juan Antonio Jara	25 November 1882	25 November 1886	[13][14]
José del Rosario Miranda	25 November 1886	25 November 1890	[15]
Marcos Morínigo	25 November 1890	9 June 1894	[16][17]
Patricio Escobar	9 June 1894	July 1894	[18]
Bernardino Caballero	July 1894	November 1894	[19][18]
Facundo Ynsfrán	25 November 1894	25 November 1898	[20]
Andrés Héctor Carvallo	25 November 1898	9 January 1902	[21]
Bernardino Caballero / Patricio Escobar	9 January 1902	25 November 1902	[22][23][24][25]
Manuel Domínguez	25 November 1902	19 December 1904	[26][27]
G. Benítez	19 December 1904	January 1905 - ?	[28]
Antonio Taboada	? - April 1905	April 1905 - ?	[29]
José Segundo Decoud	? - May 1905	November 1905 - ?	[30][31]
Juan A. Aponte	? - December 1905	December 1905 - ?	[32]
José Segundo Decoud / Antonio Taboada	? - April 1906	November 1906	[33][34]
Emiliano González Navero	25 November 1906	4 July 1908	[35][36][37]
Víctor M. Soler	? - January 1909	February 1909 - ?	[38]
Héctor Velázquez	? - April 1909	April 1909	[39]
Víctor M. Soler	April 1909	May 1909 - ?	[40]
Juan Bautista Gaona	? - June 1909	January 1911	[41][42][43]
Liberato Marcial Rojas	? - February 1911	July 1911	[44]
Fernando A. Carreras	July 1911	October 1911 - ?	[45][46]
Daniel Codas	? - January 1912	January 1912 - ?	[47]
Pedro Bobadilla	15 August 1912	15 August 1916	[48]
José Pedro Montero	15 August 1916	6 June 1919	[49]
Gualberto Cardús Huerta	6 June 1919	July 1919 - ?	[50]
Eduardo Schaerer	? - August 1919	January 1920 - ?	[51]
Gerónimo Zubizarreta	? - April 1920	April 1920 - ?	[52]
Eduardo Schaerer	? - May 1920	August 1920	[53][54]
Félix Paiva	15 August 1920	29 October 1921	[55][56]
Emiliano González Navero	? - May 1922	August 1922 - ?	[57][58]
Belisario Rivarola	? - October 1923	December 1923 - ?	[55][59]
Emiliano González Navero	? - May 1924	August 1924	[60][61]
Manuel Burgos	15 August 1924	15 August 1928	[62]
Emiliano González Navero	15 August 1928	25 October 1931	[63][64]
Eusebio Ayala	25 October 1931	28 January 1932	[65]
Emiliano González Navero	28 January 1932	15 August 1932	[65]
Raúl Casal Ribeiro	15 August 1932	19 February 1936	[66]
Justo Prieto	? - February 1939	June 1939 -	[67]
Luis Alberto Riart	15 August 1939	18 February 1940	[68]

Presidents after 1968

Below is a list of office-holders from 1968:^[69]

Name	Took office	Left office	Notes
Juan Ramón Chávez	1 April 1968	30 June 1988	[70]
Ezequiel González Alsina	1 July 1988	6 February 1989	[70]
Alberto Nogués	10 May 1989	30 June 1990	[71]
Waldino Ramón Lovera	1 July 1990	30 June 1991	[71]
Gustavo Díaz de Vivar	1 July 1991	30 June 1993	2 terms[71]
Evelio Fernández Arévalos	1 July 1993	30 June 1995	2 terms[71]
Milciades Rafael Casabianca	1 July 1995	30 June 1996	[71]
Miguel Abdón Saguier	1 July 1996	30 June 1997	[71]
Rodrigo Campos Servera	1 July 1997	30 June 1998	[71]
Luis Ángel González Macchi	1 July 1998	28 March 1999	[72]
Juan Carlos Galaverna Delvalle	28 March 1999	30 June 2000	[72]
Juan Roque Galeano Villalba	1 July 2000	30 June 2002	2 terms[72]
Juan Carlos Galaverna Delvalle	1 July 2002	30 June 2003	[72]
Carlos Mateo Balmelli	1 July 2003	30 June 2004	[72]
Miguel Carrizosa	1 July 2004	30 June 2005	[72]
Carlos Filizzola	1 July 2005	30 June 2006	[72]
Enrique González Quintana	1 July 2006	30 June 2007	[72]
Miguel Abdón Saguier Carmona	1 July 2007	30 June 2008	[72]
Enrique González Quintana	1 July 2008	30 June 2009	[72]
Miguel Garrizosa Galiano	1 July 2009	30 June 2010	[72]
Óscar Alberto González Daher	1 July 2010	30 June 2011	[72]
Jorge Antonio Oviedo Matto	1 July 2011	30 June 2012
Alfredo Luis Jaeggli Caballero	1 July 2012	30 June 2013
Julio César Velázquez Tillería	1 July 2013	30 June 2014
Blas Antonio Llano Ramos	1 July 2014	30 June 2015
Mario Abdo Benítez	1 July 2015	30 June 2016
Roberto Ramón Acevedo Quevedo	1 July 2016	30 June 2017
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez	1 July 2017	30 June 2018
Silvio Adalberto Ovelar Benítez	1 July 2018	30 June 2019
Blas Antonio Llano Ramos	1 July 2019	30 June 2020
Óscar Rubén Salomón	1 July 2020	30 June 2023	3 terms
Silvio Adalberto Ovelar Benítez	1 July 2023	Present

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Website

• The Senate of Paraguay's website