First ladies and gentlemen of Ecuador

Spouse of the President of Ecuador

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First Ladies and Gentlemen of Ecuador

Incumbent Lavinia Valbonesi since 23 November 2023
Residence	Carondelet Palace
Inaugural holder	Mercedes Jijón
Formation	22 September 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

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Type of government:

Constitutional

Interim

By Fact

No	Picture	Name	President	Term in office
Holders of the title "Wife of the President"
1o		Mercedes Jijón	Juan José Flores	1830–1834
2o		Baltazara Calderón de Rocafuerte	Vicente Rocafuerte y Bejarano	1835–1839
(1o)		Mercedes Jijón	Juan José Flores	1839–1845
	María Rosa Icaza	José Joaquín de Olmedo (Head of the Provisional Government)	1845–1845
3o	Juana Andrade Fuente Fría	Vicente Ramón 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	José María Urvina y Viteri	1851–1856
6o		Carmen de Santistevan y Avilés	Francisco Robles Garcia	1856–1859
7o	Rosa Ascázubi y Matheu	Gabriel García Moreno	1859–1865
Widower	Rafael Carvajal (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1865–1865
8o	María Antonia Andrade	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
	Mariana del Alcázar y Ascasubi	Gabriel García Moreno (Interim President)	1869–1869
	Carmen Salinas de la Vega	Manuel de Ascásubi y Matheu (Interim constitutional President)	1869–1869
9o		Mariana del Alcazar y Ascasubi	Gabriel García Moreno	1869–1875
Francisco Xavier León y Franco (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1875–1875
Isabel Valdivieso y Carcelén de Guevara	José Javier Eguiguren (Min. of Finance, in charge of the Government)	1875–1875
10o	Rosa Lucía Moscoso Cardenas	Antonio Borrero y Cortázar	1875–1876
11o		Marieta de Veintemilla	Ignacio de Veintemilla y Villacis	1876–1883
	Jesús Dávila Heredia	Luis Cordero Crespo (1st President of the Pentavirato)	1883
Antonia Chiriboga y Muñoz	Rafael Pérez Pareja (2nd President of the Pentavirato)	1883
12o	Pastoriza Marquez de la Plata y Plaza	José María Plácido Caamaño	1883–1888
Leticia Escobar y Salvador	Pedro José Cevallos (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1895–1895
13o	Leonor Ruiz de Apodaca	Antonio Flores Jijón	1888–1892
Widower (Jesús Davila Heredia)	Luis Cordero Crespo	1892–1895
Manuela Quiñones Perez	Vicente Lucio Salazar (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1895–1895
14o		Ana Paredes Arosemena	Eloy Alfaro Delgado	1895–1901
15o		Avelina Lasso	Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez	1901–1905
16o	Carmen Coello Alvarez	Lizardo García Sorroza	1905–1906
(14o)		Ana Paredes Arosemena	Eloy Alfaro Delgado	1906–1911
Rosa Elena Larrea y Gomez de la Torre	Carlos Freile Zaldumbide (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1911–1911
17o		Lastenia Gamarra Menéndez	Emilio Estrada Carmona	1911
Rosa Elena Larrea y Gomez de la Torre	Carlos Freile Zaldumbide (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1911–1912
Victoria Malo German	Francisco Andrade Marín (President of the Congress, in charge of the Government)	1912–1912
Piedad Roca Marcos	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1912–1912
(15o)		Avelina Lasso	Leónidas Plaza y Gutiérrez	1912–1916
18o	Piedad Roca Marcos	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno	1916–1920
19o		Esther Concha Torres	José Luis Tamayo	1920–1924
20o	Victoria Monsalve Cardenas	Gonzalo Córdova y Rivera	1924–1925
Does not exist	Provisional Government	1925–1926
21o		Laura Carbo Núñez	Isidro Ayora Cueva	1926–1931
Lucy Lopez y Williams	Luis Larrea Alba (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1931–1931
Piedad Roca Marcos	Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1931–1932
Manuela Gomez de la Torre y Nájera	Carlos Freile Larrea (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1932–1932
Maria Elena Valenzuela y Plaza	Alberto Guerrero Martínez (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1932–1932
22o	Francisca Torres Lascano	Juan de Dios Martínez Mera	1932–1933
Abelardo Montalvo (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1933–1934
23o	Esther Silva Burbano	José María Velasco Ibarra	1934–1935
Single	Antonio Pons (Secretary of State, in charge of the Government)	1935–1935
Adelina Espinosa García	Federico Páez (Interim President)	1935–1937
Mariana Calderón Alava	Alberto Enríquez Gallo (Supreme Chief)	1937–1938
Ana Maria Bustamante	Manuel María Borrero (Interim President)	1938
24o	Judith Perez Davalos	Aurelio Mosquera Narváez	1938–1939
	Elena Yerovi Matheu	Carlos Arroyo del Río (President of the Senate, in charge of the Government)	1939
Rosario Galarza Arizaga	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		Elena Yerovi Matheu	Carlos Arroyo del Río	1940–1944
Does not exist	Provisional Government	1944

First ladies and gentlemen of Ecuador

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Type of Government:

Constitutional

Interim

By Fact

No	Image	Name	President	Term in office
Holders of the title "First Lady of Ecuador"
26o		Corina del Parral	José María Velasco Ibarra	1944–1947
Carlos Mancheno Cajas (Min. of Defense, Presidente by Fact)	1947
27o	Blanca Pasquel Alarcón	Mariano Suárez Veintimilla	1947
28o		Laura Monroy Garaycoa	Carlos Julio Arosemena Tola	1947–1948
29o		Rosario Pallares Zaldumbide	Galo Plaza Lasso	1948–1952
(26o)		Corina del Parral	José María Velasco Ibarra	1952–1956
30o		Dolores Gangotena	Camilo Ponce Enríquez	1956–1960
(26o)		Corina del Parral	José María Velasco Ibarra	1960–1961
31o		Gladys Peet	Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy	1961–1963
Piedad Gabela Reyes	Ramón Castro Jijón (President of the Military Government)	1963–1966
	Victoria Mercedes Gomez Icaza	Clemente Yerovi Indaburu (Interim President)	1966
32o		Lucila Santos Trujillo	Otto Arosemena Gomez	1966–1968
(26o)		Corina del Parral	José María Velasco Ibarra	1968–1972
	Aida Judith Leon	Guillermo Rodríguez Lara (President by Fact)	1972–1976
Alicia Pizzimbono	Alfredo Poveda (President by Fact)	1976–1979
33o	Martha Bucaram Ortiz	Jaime Roldós Aguilera	1979–1981
34o	Margarita Pérez Pallares	Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea	1981–1984
35o	María Eugenia Cordovez Pontón	León Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra	1984–1988
36o	Carmen Calisto	Rodrigo Borja Cevallos	1988–1992
37o		Josefina Villalobos	Sixto Durán Ballén	1992–1996
38o	María Rosa Pulley Vergara	Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz	1996–1997
Pedro Fernández de Cordova	Rosalía Arteaga Serrano (Vice-president, in charge of the Government)	1997–1997
Lucia Peña Ochoa	Fabián Alarcón Rivera (Interim President)	1997–1998
39o	Paola Mahuad Calderón	Jamil Mahuad Witt	1998–2000
40o	Maria Isabel Baquerizo	Gustavo Noboa Bejarano	2000–2003
41o		Ximena Bohórquez	Lucio Gutiérrez Borbua	2003–2005
42o	María Beatriz Paret	Alfredo Palacio González	2005–2007
43o		Anne Malherbe Gosselin	Rafael Correa Delgado	2007–2017
44o		Rocío González Navas	Lenín Moreno Garcés	2017–2021
45o		María de Lourdes Alcívar	Guillermo Lasso Mendoza	2021–2023
46o		Lavinia Valbonesi	Daniel Noboa Azin	2023–present