This is a list of the presidents of the Republic of China. The Republic of China controlled Mainland China before 1949. In the fall of 1949, the ROC government retreated to Taiwan and surrounding islands as a result of the takeover of the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party and founding of the People's Republic of China. Since 1949, the Republic of China, now commonly known as "Taiwan", has only controlled Taiwan and nearby islands. Martial law ended in Taiwan in the 1980s and direct elections were introduced in 1996. The official name of the office in Chinese has changed several times.

List

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Presidents of the Provisional Government

! No. ! Portrait ! width=18% |Name (Birth–Death) ! colspan=2 |Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 |Vice President ! Assembly (elected) ! style="background:#031096; color:white;"|1 孫中山 (1866–1925) (Independent) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"|2 袁世凱 (1859–1916) (Independent)

Presidents of the Beiyang Government

! No. ! Portrait ! width=18% |Name (Birth–Death) ! colspan=2 |Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 |Vice President ! Assembly (elected) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" | 1 袁世凱 (1859–1916) (Progressive) ! style="background:#008000; color:white;" | 2 黎元洪 (1864–1928) (Zhili clique) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| — 馮國璋 (1859–1919) (acting) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 3 徐世昌 (1855–1939) ! style="background:#013C78; color:white;"| — 周自齊 (1871–1923) (acting) ! style="background:#008000; color:white;"| (2) 黎元洪 (1864–1928) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" | — 高凌霨 (1868–1939) (acting) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" |4 曹錕 (1862–1938) ! style="background:; color:black;"| — 黃郛 (1883–1936) (acting) ! rowspan=2 style="background:#CD853F; color:white;" | 5 段祺瑞 (1865–1936) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| — 胡惟德 (1863–1933) (acting) ! style="background:; color:black;"| — (W.W. Yan)]]''' 顏惠慶 (1877–1950) (acting) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| — 杜錫珪 (1875–1933) (acting) ! style="background:; color:black;"| — 顧維鈞 (1888–1985) (acting) ! style="background:#CD853F; color:white;"| 6 張作霖 (1875–1928)

Chairman of the Nationalist Government

! No. ! Portrait ! width=18% |Name (Birth–Death) ! colspan=2 |Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=3 |Assembly (elected) ! style="background:; color:white;"| 1 譚延闓 (1880–1930) (4th plenum) ! style="background:; color:white;" | 2 蔣中正 (1887–1975) (5th plenum) ! style="background:; color:white;"| — 林森 (1868–1943) ! style="background:; color:white;"| 3 (1st plenum) ! style="background:; color:white;"| — 蔣中正 (1887–1975) ! style="background:; color:white;"| 4 (11th plenum)

Presidents after the 1947 Constitution

! No. ! Portrait ! width=18% |Name (Birth–Death) ! colspan=2 |Term of office ! Political party ! colspan=2 |Vice President ! Term (elected) ! style="background:; color:white;" |1 蔣中正 (1887–1975) (Kuomintang) ! style="background:; color:white;"| — 李宗仁 (1890–1969) (acting) ! style="background:; color:white;" rowspan=7|(1) 蔣中正 (1887–1975) (Kuomintang) (Kuomintang) (Kuomintang) ! style="background:; color:white;"| 2 (C. K. Yen) 嚴家淦 (1905–1993) ! style="background:; color:white;" rowspan=2| 3 蔣經國 (1910–1988) (Kuomintang) (Kuomintang) ! style="background:; color:white;" rowspan=3| 4 李登輝 (1923–2020) (Kuomintang) (Kuomintang) ! style="background:; color:white;" rowspan=2| 5 陳水扁 (born 1950) (DPP) ! rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white;" | Presidency of Ma Ying-jeou 馬英九 (born 1950) (Kuomintang) (Kuomintang) ! rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white;" | Presidency of Tsai Ing-wen 蔡英文 (born 1956) (Independent) (DPP) ! rowspan=1 style="background:; color:white;" | Presidency of Lai Ching-te 賴清德 (born 1959) (DPP)

Timeline

Presidential age-related data (post-1947 Constitution)

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Oldest living

Green text and an asterisk mark the inauguration date of a president older than any living ex-president. Other dates are the deaths of the then-oldest president.

Graphical representation

This is a graphical lifespan timeline of the presidents of the Republic of China (post-1947 Constitution) and they are listed in order of office. The following chart shows presidents by their age (living presidents in green), with the years of their presidency in blue.

Gallery