List of First Ladies of Venezuela

First Lady of Venezuela
Flag of Venezuela
Incumbent Cilia Flores since April 2013
Residence	La Casona
Term length	6 years
Inaugural holder	Dominga Ortiz
Formation	1830

First Lady of Venezuela (Spanish: Primera Dama de Venezuela) is the unofficial title traditionally held by the wife or husband of the President of Venezuela.

First Ladies

Portrait	Name	President	Period
100px	Dominga Ortiz Orzúa	José Antonio Páez	1830–1835
100px	Encarnación Maitín	José María Vargas	1835–1836
100px	Olalla Buroz y Tovar	Carlos Soublette	1837–1839
100px	Dominga Ortiz Orzúa	José Antonio Páez	1839–1843
100px	Olalla Buroz y Tovar	Carlos Soublette	1843–1847
100px	Luisa Oriach Ladrón de Guevara	José Tadeo Monagas	1847–1851
100px	Clara Marrero	José Gregorio Monagas	1851–1855
100px	Luisa Oriach Ladrón de Guevara	José Tadeo Monagas	1855–1858
100px	María Nieves Briceño	Julián Castro	1858–1859
100px	Encarnación Rivas Pacheco	Manuel Felipe de Tovar	1859–1861
100px	Dominga Ortiz Orzúa	José Antonio Páez	1861–1863
100px	Luisa Isabel Pachano Muñoz	Juan Crisóstomo Falcón	1863–1868
100px	Esperanza Hernández	José Ruperto Monagas	1869–1870
100px	Ana Teresa Ibarra Urbaneja	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	1870–1877
100px	Belén Esteves Yánes	Francisco Linares Alcántara	1877–1878
100px	Ana Teresa Ibarra Urbaneja	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	1879–1884
100px	Jacinta Parejo	Joaquín Crespo	1884–1886
100px	Ana Teresa Ibarra Urbaneja	Antonio Guzmán Blanco	1887–1888
100px	María Josefa de la Concepción Báez	Juan Pablo Rojas Paúl	1888–1890
100px	Isabel González Esteves	Raimundo Andueza Palacio	1890–1892
100px	Jacinta Parejo	Joaquín Crespo	1892–1898
100px	María Isabel Sosa Saa	Ignacio Andrade	1898–1899
100px	Zoila Rosa Martínez	Cipriano Castro	1899–1908
100px	María Teresa Núñez Tovar	Eleazar López Contreras	1936–1941
100px	Irma Felizola	Isaías Medina Angarita	1941–1945
100px	Carmen Valverde	Rómulo Betancourt	1945–1948
100px	Teotiste Arocha Egui	Rómulo Gallegos	1948
100px	Lucía Devine	Carlos Delgado Chalbaud	1948–1950
100px	Rosario Pérez Carreño	Germán Suárez Flamerich	1950–1952
100px	Flor María Chalbaud Cardona	Marcos Pérez Jiménez	1952–1958
100px	Carmen Valverde	Rómulo Betancourt	1959–1964
	Carmen América Fernández	Raúl Leoni	1964–1969
100px	Alicia Pietri Montemayor	Rafael Caldera	1969–1974
100px	Blanca Rodríguez	Carlos Andrés Pérez	1974–1979
	Betty Urdaneta	Luis Herrera Campins	1979–1984
	Gladys Castillo	Jaime Lusinchi	1984–1989
100px	Blanca Rodríguez	Carlos Andrés Pérez	1989–1993
100px	Ligia Betancourt Mariño	Ramón José Velásquez	1993–1994
100px	Alicia Pietri Montemayor	Rafael Caldera	1994–1999
	Marisabel Rodríguez	Hugo Chávez	1999–2003
100px	Cilia Flores	Nicolas Maduro	2013–

Non-spouse "First Lady"

Name	Relation to President
Barbarita Nieves	Lover of José Antonio Páez
Dionisia Bello	Sentimental Partner of Juan Vicente Gómez
Amelia Núñez	Sentimental Partner of Juan Vicente Gómez
Cecilia Matos	Lover of Carlos Andrés Pérez
Blanca Ibañez	Lover and wife of Jaime Lusinchi from 1991 until his death
María Gabriela Chávez Colmenares	Daughter of Hugo Chávez

See also

• First Lady
• Venezuela
• List of Presidents of Venezuela

References

• (Spanish) List of First Ladies of Venezuela - Venciclopedia
• “Las Presidentas de Venezuela, Primeras Damas de la República en el siglo XIX”, Antonio Reyes, 1955