List of presidents of the Congress of Deputies of Spain

The office was established in 1810 when the Supreme Central Junta convened the first Spain's general election to form the Cortes of Cádiz.

In the first meeting of the Cortes, on 24 September 1810, the first president was elected, Ramón Lázaro de Dou y de Bassols, although Benito Ramón Hermida Maldonado held the office as acting president during the beginning of that meeting.

During this time, the Cortes were a unicameral parliament and the tenure of the president of the house was one month.

In 1814, King Ferdinand VII dissolved the parliament and abolished the 1812 Constitution, restoring absolutism.

Briefly, from 1820 to 1823, the Constitution was restored against the will of the monarch and in 1823 the King abolished it again until his death in 1833, when Queen Regent Maria Christina, in order to gain the favour of the Liberals to support the reign of her daughter, Isabella II, approved the Royal Statue of 1834, creating a bicameral parliament and restoring the office.

Coat of Arms of the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Esteban de Bilbao Eguía , longest serving president of the Congress, 22 years, 193 days
Félix Pons , longest tenure of office in the current democratic period , 9 years, 350 days
Alejandro Pidal y Mon , longest tenure of office in the 19th century, 5 years, 5 days (non-consecutive)