There have been 32 vice presidents of Colombia since the position was first created in 1819. The position has been created interspersed in the different constitutions of the country.
The vice president is the first person in the line of presidential succession and assumes the presidency if the president dies, resigns, or is impeached and removed from office. A single vice president has ascended to the presidency in this way: only one through the death of the president (Miguel Antonio Caro) Vice presidents have wielded the latter power to varying degrees over the years.
Under the Colombian Constitution of 1991, the Vice President of Colombia is the first in the Presidential line of Succession of the Republic of Colombia. In absence of both the president and the vice president, Article 203 of the Constitution of 1991 establishes that the presidential office will be assumed by a minister in the order of precedence established by law. The assuming minister has to be a member of the same party or movement the original president belonged to, and will exercise the presidency until the Congress, within the 30 days following the presidential vacancy, elects a new vice president who will assume the presidency.
List
Gran Colombia (1819-1831)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Election | President | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
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Francisco Antonio Zea | 17 December 1819 – 21 March 1820 |
Military | Simón Bolívar | ||
| 2 | 
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Juan Germán Roscio | 21 March 1820 – 4 April 1821 | ||||
| 3 | 
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Antonio Nariño | 4 April 1821 – 6 June 1821 | ||||
| 4 | 
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José María del Castillo | 6 June 1821 – 3 October 1821 | ||||
| 5 | 
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Francisco de Paula Santander | 3 October 1821 – 19 September 1827 | ||||
| Office vacant 19 September 1827 – 3 May 1830 | |||||||
| 6 | 
|
Domingo Caycedo | 3 May 1830 – 21 November 1831 |
Joaquín Mosquera | |||
| Office vacant 19 September 1827 – 3 May 1830 | Rafael Urdaneta | ||||||
| 7 |
|
Domingo Caycedo | 14 April 1831 – 20 October 1831 |
Vacant | |||
New Granada (1831–1858)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Election | President | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
José María Obando
|
21 November 1831 – 10 March 1832 |
Liberal | Domingo Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría | ||
| 2 | 
|
José Ignacio de Márquez | 10 March 1832 – 12 May 1833 |
Conservative | Francisco de Paula Santander | ||
| 3 | 
|
Joaquín Mosquera | 12 May 1833 – 1 April 1835 |
Conservative | Santander y Omaña | ||
| 4 |
|
José Ignacio de Márquez | 1 April 1835 – 1 April 1837 |
Conservative | Francisco de Paula Santander | ||
| 5 |
|
Domingo Caycedo | 1 April 1837 – 1 April 1843 |
José Ignacio de Márquez | |||
| 6 | 
|
Joaquín Gori | 1 April 1843 – 1 April 1845 |
Conservative | Pedro Herrán | ||
| 7 | 
|
Rufino Cuervo | 1 April 1845 – 1 April 1851 |
Conservative | Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera | ||
| 8 | 
|
José de Obaldía | 1 April 1851 – 1 April 1855 |
Liberal | José Hilario López | ||
| 9 | 
|
Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen | 1 April 1855 – 1 April 1857 |
Conservative | José de Obaldía | ||
| Office abolished 1 April 1857 4 August 1886 | Mariano Ospina Rodríguez | ||||||
Colombia (1886–present)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Election | President | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Eliseo Payán (1825–1895) |
13 December 1887 – 8 February 1888 |
Conservative | 1887 | Rafael Núñez | ||
| Office vacant 8 February 1888 – 7 August 1892 | ||||||||
| 2 | 
|
Miguel Antonio Caro (1845–1909) |
7 August 1892 – 18 September 1894 |
Conservative | 1890 | |||
| Office vacant 18 September 1894 7 August 1898 | Miguel Antonio Caro | |||||||
| 3 | 
|
José Manuel Marroquín (1827–1908) |
7 August 1898 – 31 July 1900 |
Conservative | 1890 | Manuel Antonio Sanclemente | ||
| Office vacant 31 July 1900 7 August 1904 | José Manuel Marroquín | |||||||
| 4 | 
|
Ramón González Valencia (1851–1928) |
7 August 1904 – 10 March 1905 |
Conservative | 1894 | Rafael Reyes | ||
| Office abolished 10 March 1905 7 August 1994 | ||||||||
| 5 | 
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Humberto de la Calle (b.1946) |
7 August 1994 – 10 September 1996 |
Liberal | 1994 | Ernesto Samper | ||
| Office vacant 10 September 1996 19 September 1996 | ||||||||
| 6 | 
|
Carlos Lemos Simmonds (1933–2003) |
19 September 1996 – 7 August 1998 |
Liberal | ||||
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|
Gustavo Bell (b. 1957) |
7 August 1998 – 7 August 2002 |
Conservative | 1998 | Andrés Pastrana | ||
| 8 | 
|
Francisco Santos Calderón (b. 1961) |
7 August 2002 – 7 August 2010 |
Colombia First | 2002 | Álvaro Uribe | ||
| 9 | 
|
Angelino Garzón (b. 1946) |
7 August 2010 – 7 August 2014 |
Unionist | 2010 | Juan Manuel Santos | ||
| 10 | 
|
Germán Vargas Lleras (b. 1962) |
7 August 2014 – 21 March 2017 |
Unionist | 2014 | |||
| Office vacant 21 March 2017 29 March 2017 | ||||||||
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Óscar Naranjo (b. 1956) |
29 March 2017 – 7 August 2018 |
Unionist | ||||
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Marta Lucía Ramírez (b. 1954) |
7 August 2018 – 7 August 2022 |
Democratic Center | 2018 | Iván Duque | ||
| 13 | 
|
Francia Márquez (b. 1981) |
7 August 2022 – Incumbent |
Democratic Pole | 2022 | Gustavo Petro | ||
See also
- List of viceroys of New Granada
- List of presidential designates of Colombia
- List of presidents of Colombia
References
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- "Miguel Antonio Caro". Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- "José Manuel Marroquín". Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- "Carlos Lemos Simmonds". Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ "Doctor Francisco Santos Calderón". Vicepresidente de la República de Colombia. Retrieved 2009-06-10.