List of presidents of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica

President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
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Incumbent Rodrigo Arias Sánchez since 1 May 2022
Term length	One year
Inaugural holder	Manuel Aguilar Chacón
Formation	1824

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

President		Tenure	Party
Federal Republic of Central America
	Manuel Aguilar Chacón	1824 November – 1825 January
	Agustín Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal	1824 September – November
	Cecilio Umaña Fallas	1825 April – May
	Manuel Alvarado Hidalgo	1825 January – February
	Manuel Alvarado Alvarado	1825 February – April
	Pedro Zeledón Mora	1825 June – November
	Félix Romero Castro	1825 November – December
	José María Arias Zamora	1826 January – February
	Joaquín Rivas Ramírez	1826 March – May
	Francisco Javier Alfaro Zamora	1826 May – August
	José Antonio Castro Ramírez	1827 May – June
	Braulio Carrillo Colina	1828 March
	José Joaquín Flores Pérez	1828 September
	Manuel María Peralta del Corral	1829 November – 1830 February
	Luciano Alfaro Arias	1830 May – June
	José María Esquivel Azofeifa	1830 May – June
	Rafael Francisco Osejo	1831 January – April
	José Gabriel Campo Guerrero	1831 July – August
	José Nereo Fonseca González	1831 May – June
	José Francisco Peralta del Corral	1832 setiembre – December
	José Andrés Rivera	1834 March – April
	Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	1836 August – December
	Francisco Javier Sáenz Ulloa	1836 January – February
	Miguel Alfaro Saborío	1837 January – February
	José Julián Blanco Zamora	1837 March – April
	Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla	1837 March – April
	Félix Sancho Alvarado	1837 September – 1838 May
Free State of Costa Rica
	Juan Mora Fernández	1843 August – December
	Juan de los Santos Madriz Cervantes	1843 June – August
	Félix Sancho Alvarado	1844 January – May
	Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1844 July – November
	José María Castro Madriz	1845 November 1844 – December
	Juan Rafael Reyes Frutos	1846 December – 1846 February
	Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1846 March – June
	Nazario Toledo	1846 September – 1847 May
	José María Alfaro Zamora	1847 May – September
First Costa Rican Republic
	Juan Rafael Mora Porras	1847 November – 1848 June
	Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1848 September – 1849 December
	Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla	1850 January – 1856 May
	Rafael García-Escalante Nava	1857 October – 1858 August
	José María Castro Madriz	1859 October – December
	Julián Volio Llorente	1860 – 1863
	Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1860 – 1861
	Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1861 – 1862
	Manuel José Carazo Bonilla	1862 – 1863
	Napoleón Escalante Navas	1863 May – August
	Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo	1863 May – August
	Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Rosales	1864 – 1867
	Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1864 – 1865
	José María Montealegre Fernández	1867 – 1868
	Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1867 – 1868
	Juan José Ulloa Solares	1869 January – February
	Francisco Echeverría Alvarado	1869 May – 1870 April
	Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava	1869 – 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 María León-Páez y Brown	1894 – 1900
	Francisco María Iglesias Llorente	1900 – 1903
	Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno	1900 – 1903
	Mauro Fernández Acuña	1904 – 1905
	Federico Tinoco Iglesias	1905 – 1908
	Juan Bautista Quirós Segura	1905 – 1908
	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
	Daniel Núñez Gutiérrez	1917 – 1918
	Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas	1917 April – June	Peliquista Party
	José Astúa Aguilar	1917 – 1918	Peliquista Party
	Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1917 – 1918	Peliquista Party
	Francisco Faerron Suárez	1918 – 1919	Peliquista Party
	José Astúa Aguilar	1919	Peliquista Party
	Arturo Volio Jiménez	1920 – 1925	Republican Party
	León Cortés Castro	1925 – 1926	Republican Party
	Arturo Volio Jiménez	1926 – 1929	Republican Party
	Alejandro Alvarado Quirós	1929 – 1930	Republican Party
	Oscar Rohrmoser Carranza	1929 – 1930	Republican Party
	Rafael Calderón Muñoz	1931 – 1932	National Republican Party
	Arturo Volio Jiménez	1932 – 1935	National Republican Party
	Ricardo Castro Beeche	1935 – 1936	National Republican Party
	Juan Rafael Arias Bonilla	1936 – 1938	National Republican Party
	Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia	1938 – 1940	National Republican Party
	Otto Cortés Fernández	1940 – 1941	Democratic Party
	Teodoro Picado Michalski	1941 – 1944	National Republican Party
	José Albertazzi Avendaño	1944 – 1945	National Republican Party
	Rafael Ángel Grillo Ocampo	1944 – 1945	National Republican Party
	Francisco Fonseca Chamier	1946 – 1948	National Republican Party
Second Costa Rican Republic
	Marcial Rodríguez Conejo	1949 – 1952	National Union Party
	Abelardo Bonilla Baldares	1952 – 1953	National Union Party
	Gonzalo Facio Segreda	1953 – 1956	National Liberation Party
	Otto Cortés Fernández	1956 – 1958	National Liberation Party
	Álvaro Montero Padilla	1958 – 1960	National Union Party
	Fernando Lara Bustamante	1960 – 1961	National Union Party
	Mario Leiva Quirós	1961 – 1962	National Union Party
	Carlos Espinach Escalante	1962 – 1963	National Liberation Party
	Rafael París Steffens	1963 – 1964	National Liberation Party
	Rodolfo Solano Orfila	1964 – 1965	National Liberation Party
	Rafael París Steffens	1965 – 1966	National Liberation Party
	Rodrigo Carazo Odio	1966 – 1967	National Liberation Party
	Hernán Garrón Salazar	1967 – 1968	National Liberation Party
	Fernando Volio Jiménez	1968 – 1969	National Liberation Party
	José Luis Molina Quesada	1969 – 1970	National Liberation Party
	Daniel Oduber Quirós	1970 – 1973	National Liberation Party
	Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez	1973 – 1974	National Liberation Party
	Alfonso Carro Zúñiga	1974 – 1977	National Liberation Party
	Elías Soley Soler	1977 – 1978	National Liberation Party
	Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto	1978 – 1979	Unity Coalition
	Ramón Aguilar Facio	1979 – 1980	Unity Coalition
	Rafael Grillo Rivera	1980 – 1981	Unity Coalition
	Cristian Tattenbach Iglesias	1981 – 1982	Unity Coalition
	Hernán Garrón Salazar	1982 – 1983	National Liberation Party
	Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla	1983 – 1984	National Liberation Party
	Bernal Jiménez Monge	1984 – 1985	National Liberation Party
	Guillermo Vargas Sanabria	1985 – 1986	National Liberation Party
	Rosemary Karspinsky Dodero	1986 – 1987	National Liberation Party
	Fernando Volio Jiménez	1987 – 1988	National Liberation Party
	José Luis Valenciano Chaves	1988 – 1989	National Liberation Party
	Allen Arias Angulo	1989 – 1990	National Liberation Party
	Juan José Trejos Fonseca	1990 – 1991	Social Christian Unity Party
	Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría	1991 – 1992	Social Christian Unity Party
	Roberto Tovar Faja	1992 – 1993	Social Christian Unity Party
	Danilo Chaverri Soto	1993 – 1994	Social Christian Unity Party
	Alberto Cañas Escalante	1994 – 1995	National Liberation Party
	Antonio Álvarez Desanti	1995 – 1996	National Liberation Party
	Jorge Walter Coto Molina	1996 – 1997	National Liberation Party
	Saúl Weisleder Weisleder	1997 – 1998	National Liberation Party
	Luis Fishman Zonzinski	1998 – 1999	Social Christian Unity Party
	Carlos Vargas Pagán	1999 – 2000	Social Christian Unity Party
	Rina Contreras López	2000 – 2001	Social Christian Unity Party
	Ovidio Pacheco Salazar	2001 – 2002	Social Christian Unity Party
	Rolando Laclé Castro	2002 – 2003	Social Christian Unity Party
	Mario Redondo Poveda	2003 – 2004	Social Christian Unity Party
	Gerardo González Esquivel	2004 – 2006	Social Christian Unity Party
	Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández	2006 – 2010	National Liberation Party
	Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge	2010 – 2011	National Liberation Party
	Juan Carlos Mendoza García	2011 – 2012	Citizens' Action Party
	Víctor Emilio Granados Calvo	2012 – 2013	Accessibility without Exclusion
	Luis Fernando Mendoza Jiménez	2013 – 2014	National Liberation Party
	Henry Mora Jiménez	2014 – 2015	Citizens' Action Party
	Rafael Ortiz Fábrega	2015 – 2016	Social Christian Unity Party
	Antonio Álvarez Desanti	2016 – 2017	National Liberation Party
	Gonzalo Alberto Ramírez Zamora	2017 – 2018	Costa Rican Renewal Party
	Carolina Hidalgo Herrera	2018 – 2019	Citizens' Action Party
	Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez	2019 – 2020	National Liberation Party
	Eduardo Cruickshank Smith	2020 – 2021	National Restoration Party
	Silvia Hernández Sánchez	2021 – 2022	National Liberation Party
	Rodrigo Arias Sánchez	2022 – 2024	National Liberation Party