Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)

Lidia Gueiler

President of Bolivia from 1979 to 1980

Lidia Gueiler Tejada was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female head of state in a republic in the history of the Americas.