List of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army

The following is a list of commanders-in-chief of the Chilean Army. The Chilean Army (Spanish: Ejército de Chile) is the land force of Chile. The Chilean Army dates back to 1810.

Picture	Rank	Name	Entered Office	Exited Office	Position
70px	Brigadier	José Miguel Carrera Verdugo	March 31, 1813	November 23, 1813	Army Commander-in-chief
	Colonel	Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme	November 27, 1813	September 2, 1814	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Brigadier	José Miguel Carrera Verdugo	August 28, 1814	October 2, 1814	Army Commander-in-chief
	Captain General	José de San Martín Matorras	June 5, 1817	April 27, 1819	Army Commander-in-chief
	Captain General	Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme	April 17, 1819	January 28, 1823	Army Commander-in-chief
	Captain General	Ramón Freire Serrano	February 21, 1823	April 2, 1830	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	José Joaquín Prieto Vial	April 2, 1830	September 18, 1841	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Manuel Bulnes Prieto	September 18, 1841	October 18, 1866	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	Marcos Maturana del Campo	October 18, 1866	December 21, 1870	Senior General Officer
	Divisional General	Juan Manuel Jarpa Caamaño	August 8, 1871	December 31, 1875	Senior General Officer
70px	Divisional General	Basilio Urrutia Vásquez	August 8, 1871	April 7, 1879	Senior General Officer
70px	Divisional General	Justo Arteaga Cuevas	April 8, 1879	July 18, 1879	Field Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	Erasmo Escala Arriagada	July 18, 1879	March 28, 1880	Field Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	Manuel Baquedano González	April 3, 1880	May 3, 1881	Field Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez	May 3, 1881	December 19, 1883	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Emilio Sotomayor Baeza	January 4, 1884	August 22, 1888	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	José Francisco Gana Castro	August 22, 1888	September 4, 1891	Field Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Marco Aurelio Arriagada	September 14, 1891	August 28, 1894	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Adolfo Holley Urzúa	August 28, 1894	October 13, 1900	Inspector General
	Divisional General	Emilio Korner	October 13, 1900	April 19, 1910	Inspector General
70px	Division General	Jorge Boonen Rivera	April 19, 1910	April 26, 1921	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Arístides Pinto Concha	April 26, 1921	February 13, 1922	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Luis Altamirano Talavera	February 13, 1922	November 28, 1924	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Pedro Pablo Dartnell Encina	November 28, 1924	January 23, 1925	Inspector General
	Divisional General	Mariano Navarrete Ciris	January 31, 1925	November 10, 1925	Inspector General
	Divisional General	Juan Emilio Ortiz Vega	November 11, 1925	January 7, 1927	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Francisco Javier Díaz Valderrama	February 18, 1927	March 20, 1930	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Pedro Charpin Rival	March 21, 1930	November 7, 1930	Inspector General
70px	Divisional General	Bartolomé Blanche Espejo	November 7, 1930	August 4, 1931	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Divisional General	Pedro Charpin Rival	August 5, 1931	August 22, 1931	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Indalicio Téllez Cárcamo	August 25, 1931	June 11, 1932	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Agustín Moreno Ladrón de Guevara	June 15, 1932	August 2, 1932	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Luis Otero Mujica	August 3, 1932	December 26, 1932	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Pedro Vignola Cortés	December 26, 1932	December 21, 1933	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Marcial Urrutia Urrutia	December 23, 1933	March 27, 1934	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Óscar Novoa Fuentes	March 27, 1934	December 20, 1938	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Carlos Fuentes Rabe	December 26, 1938	August 23, 1940	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Óscar Escudero Otárola	August 23, 1940	March 8, 1943	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Arturo Espinoza Mujica	August 12, 1943	October 11, 1944	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Alfredo Portales Mourgues	November 8, 1943	November 12, 1945	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Óscar Fuentes Pantoja	November 12, 1945	November 29, 1946	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Division General	Guillermo Barrios Tirado	November 29, 1946	August 2, 1947	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Ramón Cañas Montalva	August 2, 1947	October 8, 1949	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Division General	Guillermo Barrios Tirado	October 8, 1949	January 9, 1950	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Rafael Fernández Reyes	January 9, 1950	October 28, 1952	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Santiago Danús Peña	November 3, 1952	March 11, 1953	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Carlos Mezzano Camino	March 11, 1953	June 10, 1954	Army Commander-in-chief
	Division General	Enrique Franco Hidalgo	June 11, 1954	March 17, 1955	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Raúl Araya Stiglich	March 17, 1955	May 8, 1956	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Luis Vidal Vargas	May 8, 1956	November 3, 1958	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	René Vidal Merino	November 3, 1958	November 13, 1958	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Óscar Izurieta Molina	November 14, 1958	November 3, 1964	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Bernardino Parada Moreno	November 4, 1964	July 4, 1967	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Luis Miqueles Caridi	July 5, 1967	May 3, 1968	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	Sergio Castillo Aránguiz	May 3, 1968	October 24, 1969	Army Commander-in-chief
	Divisional General	René Schneider Chereau	October 27, 1969	October 22, 1970	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Division General	Carlos Prats González	October 26, 1970	August 23, 1973	Army Commander-in-chief
	Captain General	Augusto Pinochet Ugarte	August 23, 1973	March 10, 1998	Army Commander-in-chief
	Lieutenant General	Ricardo Izurieta Caffarena	March 11, 1998	March 10, 2002	Army Commander-in-chief
	Lieutenant General	Juan Emilio Cheyre Espinosa	March 11, 2002	March 10, 2006	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Army General	Óscar Izurieta Ferrer	March 11, 2006	March 9, 2010	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Army General	Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba Poblete	March 10, 2010	March 10, 2014	Army Commander-in-chief
70px	Army General	Humberto Oviedo Arriagada	March 10, 2014	Present	Army Commander-in-chief

See also

• Chilean Army