| INDEPENDENCE PERIOD and EARLY REPUBLIC |
Emperor Agustín de Iturbide
Agustín Itúrbide, Unappreciated Unknown |
1822-23 |
| Guadalupe Victoria (Felix Fernández) |
1824-29 |
| Vicente Guerrero |
1829 |
| José María Bocanegra (interim) |
1829 |
Pedro Vélez, Luis Quintanar and Lucas Alamán, triumvirate |
1829 |
| Anastasio Bustamante |
1830-32, 1837-39 and 1842 |
| Melchor Múzquiz (interim) |
1832 |
| Manuel Gómez Pedraza |
1833 |
| Antonio López de Santa Anna |
variously from 1833 to 1855 |
| Valentín Gómez Farías |
1833, 1834 and 1847 |
| Miguel Barragán |
1835-36 |
| José Justo Corro |
1836-37 |
| Nicolás Bravo |
variously from 1839 to 1846 |
| Javíer Echeverría |
1841 |
| Valentín Canalizo |
1844 |
| José Joaquín Herrera ( interim ) |
1844, 1845 and 1848-51 |
| Mariano Paredes Arrillaga |
1846 |
| Mariano Salas |
1846 |
| Pedro María Anaya |
1847 and 1848 |
| Manuel de la Peña y Peña |
1847 and 1848 |
| Mariano Arista |
1851-53 |
| Juan Bautista Ceballos (interim) |
1853 |
| Manuel María Lombardini |
1853 |
| Martín Carrera (interim) |
1855 |
| Rómulo Díaz de la Vega |
1855 |
| THE REFORMA AND THE FRENCH INTERVENTION |
| Juan Alvarez |
1855 |
| Ignacio Comonfort |
1855-58 |
| Liberal Government |
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| Benito Juárez |
1855-72 |
| Conservative Government |
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| Félix Zuloaga |
1858 and 1859 |
| Manuel Robles Pezuela |
1858 |
| Miguel Miramón |
1859-60 |
| Ignacio Pavón |
1860 |
| Conservative Junta |
1860- 64 |
| Emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg |
1864-67 |
| THE RESTORED REPUBLIC |
| Benito Juárez |
1867-72 |
| Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada |
1872-76 |
| THE PORFIRIATO |
| Juan N. Méndez |
1876 |
Porfirio Díaz
Porferio Diaz - An Enigma |
1876-80; 1884-1911 |
| Manuel González |
1880-84 |
| THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION |
| Francisco León de la Barra (interim) |
l913 |
| Francisco I. Madero |
1911-1913 |
| Pedro Lascuráin (interim) |
1913 |
| Victoriano Huerta (interim) |
1913-14 |
| Francisco S. Carbajal (interim) |
1914 |
| Venustiano Carranza |
1914; 1915-20 |
Eulalio Gutiérrez (interim) (named by the Convention of Aguascalientes) |
1914 |
| Roque González Garza |
1914 |
| Francisco Lagos Chazaro |
1915 |
| THE SONORAN DYNASTY |
| Adolfo de la Huerta (interim ) |
1920 |
| Alvaro Obregón |
1920-24 |
| Plutarco Elías Calles |
1924-28 |
| THE MAXIMATO |
| Emilio Portes Gil (interim) |
1928-30 |
| Pascual Ortíz Rubio |
1930-32 |
| Abelardo L. Rodríguez (interim) |
1932-34 |
| REVOLUTIONARY RENEWAL |
| Lázaro Cárdenas |
1934-40 |
| THE INSTITUTIONALIZED REVOLUTION |
| Manuel Avila Camacho |
1940-46 |
| Miguel Alemán Valdés |
1946-52 |
| Adolfo Ruíz Cortines |
1952-58 |
| Adolfo López Mateos |
1958-64 |
| Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
1964-70 |
| Luis Echeverría Alvarez |
1970-76 |
| José López Portillo |
1976-82 |
| Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado |
1982-88 |
| Carlos Salinas de Gortari |
1988-94 |
| Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León |
1994-2000 |
| Vicente Fox |
2000- |