Higinio Morínigo Martínez         8 Sep 1940 -  3 Jun 1948 (+1983) [picture] mil     (prov. to 15 Aug 1943) 
Juan Manuel Frutos Escurra        3 Jun 1948 - 15 Aug 1948 (+1960) [picture] n/p     (prov.)
Juan Natalicio González Paredes  15 Aug 1948 - 30 Jan 1949 (+1966) [picture] ANR
Raimundo Rolón Villasanti        30 Jan 1949 - 26 Feb 1949 (+1981) [picture] mil/ANR (prov.)
Felipe Benigno Molas López       27 Feb 1949 - 11 Sep 1949 (+1954) [picture] ANR     (prov. to 14 May 1949)
Federico Chaves Careaga          11 Sep 1949 -  8 May 1954 (+1978) [picture] ANR     (prov. to 15 Aug 1953)
Tomás Romero Pereira              8 May 1954 - 15 Aug 1954 (+1982) [picture] ANR     (prov.) 
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda      15 Aug 1954 -  3 Feb 1989 (+2006) [picture] mil/ANR 
Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti          3 Feb 1989 - 15 Aug 1993 (+1997) [picture] mil/ANR (prov. to 15 May 1989)
Juan Carlos María Wasmosy Monti  15 Aug 1993 - 15 Aug 1998         [picture] ANR
Raúl Alberto Cubas Grau          15 Aug 1998 - 28 Mar 1999         [picture] ANR       
Luis Ángel González Macchi       28 Mar 1999 - 15 Aug 2003         [picture] ANR
Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos      15 Aug 2003 - 15 Aug 2008         [picture] ANR 
Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez     15 Aug 2008 -                               PDC/APC