List of Presidents of the Senate of Puerto Rico

This is a list of people that have held the post of President of the Senate of Puerto Rico. The Senate has elected its own President from more than 99 years since the Jones–Shafroth Act formally established the post on March 2, 1917.[1]

      Union Party        Republican Party        New Progressive Party        Popular Democratic Party
# Portrait President Date it took office Date it left office Political party President pro-tempore
1 Antonio R. Barceló
(1868–1938)
1917 1929 Union Eduardo Georgetti
1917-1921

Juan Hernández López
1921-1924

Luis Sánchez Morales
1926-1929
2 Luis Sánchez Morales
(1867–1934)
1929 1933 Republican Celestino Iriarte Miró
3 Rafael Martínez Nadal
(1877–1941)
1933 1941 Republican Bolívar Pagán
1933-1940

Luis Padrón Rivera
1940-1941
4 Luis Muñoz Marín
(1898–1980)
1941 1949 PPD Francisco M. Susoni Abreu
1941-1944

Samuel R. Quiñones
1945-1949
5 Samuel R. Quiñones
(1904–1976)
1949 1969 PPD Luis Negrón López
6 Rafael Hernández Colón
(b. 1936)
1969 1973 PPD Juan J. Cancel Ríos
7 Juan J. Cancel Ríos
(1925–1992)
1973 1977 PPD Miguel Hernández Agosto
8 Luis A. Ferré Aguayo
(1904–2003)
1977 1981 PNP Manuel Ramos Barroso
9 Miguel Hernández Agosto
(b. 1927)
1981 1993 PPD Sergio Peña Clos
1981-1988

Miguel Deynes Soto
1989-1993
10 Roberto Rexach Benítez
(1929–2012)
1993 1997 PNP Nicolás Nogueras Cartagena
1993-1995

Luisa Lebrón de Rivera
1995-1997
11 Charles A. Rodríguez Colón
(b. 1954)
1997 2001 PNP Aníbal Marrero Pérez
1997-2000

Luz Z. Arce Ferrer
2000-2001
12 Antonio Fas Alzamora
(b. 1948)
2001 2005 PPD Velda González de Modestti
13 Kenneth D. McClintock Hernández
(b. 1957)
2005 2009 PNP Orlando Parga Figueroa
14 Thomas Rivera Schatz
(b. 1966)
2009 2013 PNP Margarita Nolasco Santiago
15 Eduardo Bhatia
(b. 1964)
2013 present PPD José Luis Dalmau

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