List of Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate

List of Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate

This is a complete list of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.

1789-1890

Before 1890, the Senate elected a president pro tempore only for the period when the vice president would be absent.

Presidents pro tempore emeritus

Note

Carter Glass (1941-1945) was the last president pro tempore not to be the senior member of the majority party, aside from the single day accorded Milton Young (1980), who was the retiring senior member of the party that had been elected to a majority in the incoming congress.

ources

* [http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/President_Pro_Tempore.htm President pro tempore] United States Senate


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