List of vice presidents of Colombia
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The vice president of Colombia is the second-highest-ranking official in the executive branch of the government of Colombia, after the president of Colombia.Vice Presidents have exercised this latter power to varying degrees. There have been 13 Vice Presidents of Colombia since the office was created in 1886 and reinstated in 1994. The current Vice President is José Manuel Restrepo, who assumed office as the 14th Vice President on August 7, 2026. The Vice President is first in the presidential line of succession; that is, they assume the presidency if the President dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment. Three Vice Presidents have ascended to the presidency in this manner.
Before the Constituent Assembly of 1905, a vacancy during the Vice President's term could not be filled until the next presidential inauguration following the elections. Four such vacancies occurred: four Vice Presidents succeeded to the presidency. The Colombian Constitution, ratified in 1991, allows for the election of a vice president following the election by both houses of Congress. Since its ratification, the vice presidency has been vacant twice (most recently during the Presidency of Juan Manuel Santos) and was filled on both occasions through this process. The amendment also established a procedure by which a vice president can, if the president is unable to exercise the powers and duties of the office, temporarily assume those powers and duties as acting president. Only one vice president has briefly served as president under the Constitution: Carlos Lemos Simmonds in 1998.
List
Gran Colombia (1819–1831)
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term | Party | Election | President | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francisco Antonio Zea[1] | 17 December 1819 – 21 March 1820 |
Military | Simón Bolívar | |||
| 2 | Juan Germán Roscio[2] | 21 March 1820 – 4 April 1821 | |||||
| 3 | Antonio Nariño[3] | 4 April 1821 – 6 June 1821 | |||||
| 4 | José María del Castillo[4] | 6 June 1821 – 3 October 1821 | |||||
| 5 | Francisco de Paula Santander[5] | 3 October 1821 – 19 September 1827 | |||||
| Office vacant (19 September 1827 – 3 May 1830) | |||||||
| 6 | Domingo Caycedo[6] | 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[8] | 10 March 1832 – 12 May 1833 |
Conservative | Francisco de Paula Santander | |||
| 3 | Joaquín Mosquera[9] | 12 May 1833 – 1 April 1835 |
Conservative | Santander y Omaña | |||
| 4 | José Ignacio de Márquez[8] | 1 April 1835 – 1 April 1837 |
Conservative | Francisco de Paula Santander | |||
| 5 | Domingo Caycedo[6] | 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[10] | 1 April 1845 – 1 April 1851 |
Conservative | Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera | |||
| 8 | José de Obaldía[11] | 1 April 1851 – 1 April 1855 |
Liberal | José Hilario López | |||
| 9 | Manuel María Mallarino Ibargüen[12] | 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[13] | ||
| Office vacant (8 February 1888 – 7 August 1892) | |||||||
| 2 | Miguel Antonio Caro (1845–1909) [14] |
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) [15] |
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 | Humberto de la Calle (b.1946) |
7 August 1994 – 10 September 1996 |
Liberal | 1994 | Ernesto Samper | ||
| Office vacant (10 – 19 September 1996) | |||||||
| 6 | Carlos Lemos Simmonds (1933–2003) [16] |
19 September 1996 – 7 August 1998 |
Liberal | ||||
| 7 | 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[a] |
Colombia First | 2002 | Álvaro Uribe[17] | ||
| 2006 | |||||||
| 9 | Angelino Garzón (b. 1946) [17] |
7 August 2010 – 7 August 2014 |
Unionist | 2010 | Juan Manuel Santos | ||
| 10 | Germán Vargas Lleras (1962–2026) |
7 August 2014 – 21 March 2017 |
Radical Change | 2014 | |||
| Office vacant (21 – 29 March 2017) | |||||||
| 11 | Óscar Naranjo (b. 1956) |
29 March 2017 – 7 August 2018 |
Unionist | 2017
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| 12 | Marta Lucía Ramírez (b. 1954) |
7 August 2018 – 7 August 2022 |
Democratic Center | 2018 | Iván Duque | ||
| 13 | Francia Márquez (b. 1981) |
7 August 2022 – 7 August 2026 |
Democratic Pole (Historic Pact) | 2022 | Gustavo Petro | ||
| 14 | José Manuel Restrepo (b. 1970) |
7 August 2026 - Incumbent |
Defenders of the Homeland | 2026 | Abelardo de la Espriella | ||