First Ladies and Gentlemen of Ecuador

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First Ladies and Gentlemen of Ecuador
Incumbent María de Lourdes Alcívar since May 24, 2021
Residence	Carondelet Palace
Inaugural holder	Mercedes Jijón
Formation	September 22, 1830

First Ladies and Gentlemen of Ecuador are the wives and husbands of the presidents of Ecuador. There has been only one first gentleman of Ecuador to date, Eduardo Peña Triviño, the husband of former acting president Rosalía Arteaga Serrano.

List of first ladies and gentlemen of Ecuador[]

Type of Government: 

Nº	Picture	Name	President	Term in office
Holders of the title "Wife of the President"
1º		Mercedes Jijón	Juan Jose Flores	1830-1834
2º		Baltazara Calderón de Rocafuerte	Vicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano	1835-1839
(1º)		Mercedes Jijón	Juan Jose Flores	1839-1845
			Jose Joaquin de Olmedo (Head of the Provisional Government)	1845-1845
3º			Vicente Ramon Roca	1845-1849
		Carmen Salinas de la Vega	Manuel de Ascazubi y Matheu (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1849-1850
4º		Tomasa Carbo y Noboa	Diego Noboa	1850-1851
5º		Teresa Jado	Jose Maria Urbina y Viteri	1851-1856
6º		Carmen de Santistevan y Avilés	Francisco Robles Garcia	1856-1859
7º			Gabriel Garcia Moreno	1859-1865
		Widower	Rafael Carvajal (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1865-1865
8º			Jeronimo Carrion y Palacio	1865-1867
		Juana Arteta y Garzon	Pedro José de Arteta (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1867-1868
		Single	Javier Espinosa y Espinosa	1868-1869
			Gabriel Garcia Moreno (Interim President)	1869-1869
		Carmen Salinas de la Vega	Manuel de Ascasubi y Matheu (Interim constitutional President)	1869-1869
9º			Gabriel Garcia Moreno	1869-1875
			Francisco Xavier Leon y Franco (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1875-1875
			Jose Javier Eguiguren (Min. of Finance, in charge of the Government)	1875-1875
10º			Antonio Borrero y Cortazar	1875-1876
11º		Marieta de Veintimilla	Ignacio de Veintemilla y Villacis	1876-1883
			Luis Cordero Crespo (1st President of the Pentavirato)	1883
			Rafael Perez Pareja (2nd President of the Pentavirato)	1883
12º			José María Plácido Caamaño	1883-1888
			Pedro José Cevallos (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1895-1895
13º			Antonio Flores Jijon	1888-1892
		Widower (Jesús Davila Heredia)	Luis Cordero Crespo	1892-1895
			Vicente Lucio Salazar (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1895-1895
14º		Ana Paredes Arosemena	Eloy Alfaro Delgado	1895-1901
15º			Leonidas Plaza Gutierrez	1901-1905
16º			Lizardo Garcia Sorroza	1905-1906
(14º)		Ana Paredes Arosemena	Eloy Alfaro Delgado	1906-1911
			Carlos Freile Zaldumbide (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1911-1911
17º			Emilio Estrada Carmona	1911
			Carlos Freile Zaldumbide (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1911-1912
			Francisco Andrade Marin (President of the Congress, in charge of the Government)	1912-1912
			Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1912-1912
(15º)			Leonidas Plaza Gutierrez	1912-1916
18º			Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno	1916-1920
19º			José Luis Tamayo	1920-1924
20º			Gonzalo Cordova y Rivera	1924-1925
		Does not exist	Provisional Government	1925-1926
21º			Isidro Ayora Cueva	1926-1931
			Luis Larrea Alba (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1931-1931
			Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1931-1932
			Carlos Freile Larrea (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1932-1932
		Maria Elena Valenzuela y Plaza	Alberto Guerrero Martinez (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1932-1932
22º			Juan de Dios Martinez Mera	1932-1933
			Abelardo Montalvo (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1933-1934
23º			José Maria Velasco Ibarra	1934-1935
		Single	Antonio Pons (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1935-1935
			Federico Paez (Interim President)	1935-1937
			Alberto Enriquez Gallo (Supreme Chief)	1937-1938
			Manuel Maria Borrero (Interim President)	1938
24º			Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez	1938-1939
			Carlos Arroyo del Rio (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1939
			Andres Fernandez de Cordova (President of the Congress, in charge of the Government)	1939-1940
			Julio Enrique Moreno (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1940
25º			Carlos Arroyo del Rio	1940-1944
		Does not exist	Provisional Government	1944

First ladies and gentlemen of Ecuador[]

Type of Government: 

Nº	Image	Name	President	Term in office
Holders of the title "First Lady of Ecuador"
26º		Corina del Parral	José Maria Velasco Ibarra	1944-1947
			Carlos Mancheno Cajas (Min. of Defense, Presidente by Fact)	1947
27º			Mariano Suarez Veintimilla	1947
28º			Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola	1947-1948
29º			Galo Plaza Lasso	1948-1952
(26º)		Corina del Parral	José Maria Velasco Ibarra	1952-1956
30º		Dolores Gangotena	Camilo Ponce Enríquez	1956-1960
(26º)		Corina del Parral	José Maria Velasco Ibarra	1960-1961
31º			Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy	1961-1963
			Ramon Castro Jijon (President of the Military Government)	1963-1966
			Clemente Yerovi Indaburu (Interim President)	1966
32º		Lucila Santos Trujillo	Otto Arosemena Gomez	1966-1968
(26º)		Corina del Parral	José Maria Velasco Ibarra	1968-1972
		Aida Judith Leon	Guillermo Rodriguez Lara (President by Fact)	1972-1976
		Alicia Pizzimbono	Alfredo Poveda (President by Fact)	1976-1979
33º		Martha Bucaram Ortiz	Jaime Roldos Aguilera	1979-1981
34º		Margarita Pérez Pallares	Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea	1981-1984
35º		María Eugenia Cordovez Pontón	Leon Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra	1984-1988
36º		Carmen Calisto	Rodrigo Borja Cevallos	1988-1992
37º		Josefina Villalobos	Sixto Duran Ballen	1992-1996
38º			Abdala Bucaram Ortiz	1996-1997
			Rosalia Arteaga Serrano (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1997-1997
			Fabián Alarcon Rivera (Interim President)	1997-1998
39º			Jamil Mahuad Witt	1998-2000
40º			Gustavo Noboa Bejarano	2000-2003
41º		Ximena Bohórquez	Lucio Gutierrez Borbua	2003-2005
42º		María Beatriz Paret	Alfredo Palacio Gonzalez	2005-2007
43º		Anne Malherbe Gosselin	Rafael Correa Delgado	2007-2017
44º		Rocío González Navas	Lenin Moreno Garcés	2017-2021
45º		María de Lourdes Alcívar	Guillermo Lasso Mendoza	since 2021