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Presidents pro tempore of the U.S. Senate

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Years Served
Party
Home State
Answer
1789
Pro-Administration
New Hampshire
John Langdon
1792
Anti-Administration
Virginia
Richard Henry Lee
1792 - 1793
Pro-Administration
New Hampshire
John Langdon
1794
Pro-Administration
South Carolina
Ralph Izard
1795
Anti-Administration, Democratic Republican
Virginia
Henry Tazewell
1796
Federalist
New Hampshire
Samuel Livermore
1797
Federalist
Pennsylvania
William Bingham
1797
Federalist
Rhode Island
William Bradford
1797
Federalist
South Carolina
Jacob Read
1798
Federalist
Massachusetts
Theodore Sedgwick
1798
Federalist
New York
John Laurance
1799
Federalist
Pennsylvania
James Ross
1799
Federalist
New Hampshire
Samuel Livermore
1800
Federalist
Connecticut
Uriah Tracy
1800
Federalist
Maryland
John E. Howard
1801
Federalist
Connecticut
James Hillhouse
1801 - 1802
Democratic Republican
Georgia
Abraham Baldwin
1803
Democratic Republican
Vermont
Stephen R. Bradley
1803 - 1804
Democratic Republican
Kentucky
John Brown
1804
Democratic Republican
North Carolina
Jesse Franklin
1805
Democratic Republican
Tennessee
Joseph Anderson
1805 - 1808
Democratic Republican
Maryland
Samuel Smith
1808 - 1809
Democratic Republican
Vermont
Stephen R. Bradley
1809
Democratic Republican
Georgia
John Milledge
1809
Democratic Republican
Pennsylvania
Andrew Gregg
1810
Democratic Republican
South Carolina
John Gaillard
1811
Democratic Republican
Kentucky
John Pope
1812 - 1813
Democratic Republican
Georgia
William H. Crawford
1813 - 1814
Democratic Republican
South Carolina
Joseph B. Varnum
1814 - 1819
Democratic Republican
South Carolina
John Gaillard
1819
Democratic Republican
Virginia
James Barbour
1819 - 1825
Democratic Republican
South Carolina
John Gaillard
1826 - 1827
Democratic Republican
North Carolina
Nathaniel Macon
1828 - 1831
Jacksonian
Maryland
Samuel Smith
1832
Jacksonian
Virginia
Littleton Tazewell
1833
Jacksonian
Tennessee
Hugh Lawson White
1834
National Republican
Mississippi
George Poindexter
1835
National Republican
Virginia
John Tyler
1836 - 1841
Democrat
Alabama
William R. King
1841 - 1842
Whig
New Jersey
Samuel Southard
1843 - 1845
Whig
North Carolina
Willie P. Mangum
1845
Democrat
Arkansas
Ambrose H. Sevier
1846 - 1849
Democrat
Missouri
David R. Atchison
1850 - 1852
Democrat
Alabama
William R. King
1853 - 1854
Democrat
Missouri
David R. Atchison
1854
Democrat
Michigan
Lewis Cass
1854 - 1856
Democrat
Indiana
Jesse D. Bright
1856
Democrat
Michigan
Charles E. Stuart
1856 - 1857
Democrat
Indiana
Jesse D. Bright
1857
Democrat
Virginia
James M. Mason
1857
Democrat
Texas
Thomas J. Rusk
1857 - 1860
Democrat
Alabama
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
1860
Democrat
Indiana
Jesse D. Bright
1860
Democrat
Alabama
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
1861 - 1864
Republican
Vermont
Solomon Foot
1864 - 1865
Republican
New Hampshire
Daniel Clark
1865 - 1867
Republican
Connecticut
Lafayette S. Foster
1867 - 1869
Republican
Ohio
Benjamin F. Wade
1868 - 1873
Republican
Rhode Island
Henry B. Anthony
1873 - 1875
Republican
Wisconsin
Matthew H. Carpenter
1875
Republican
Rhode Island
Henry B. Anthony
1875 - 1879
Republican
Michigan
Thomas W. Ferry
1879 - 1880
Democrat
Ohio
Allen G. Thurman
1881
Democrat
Delaware
Thomas F. Bayard, Sr.
1881 - 1883
Independent
Illinois
David Davis
1883 - 1885
Republican
Vermont
George F. Edmunds
Years Served
Party
Home State
Answer
1885 - 1887
Republican
Ohio
John Sherman
1887 - 1891
Republican
Kansas
John J. Ingalls
1891 - 1893
Republican
Nebraska
Charles F. Manderson
1893 - 1895
Democrat
Tennessee
Isham G. Harris
1895
Democrat
North Carolina
Matt W. Ransom
1895
Democrat
Tennessee
Isham G. Harris
1896 - 1911
Republican
Maine
William P. Frye
1911
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1911
Republican
Kansas
Charles Curtis
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
Connecticut
Frank B. Brandegee
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1912
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1912 - 1913
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1913
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1913
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1913
Democrat
Georgia
Augustus O. Bacon
1913
Republican
New Hampshire
Jacob H. Gallinger
1913 - 1915
Democrat
Arkansas
James Paul Clarke
1916 - 1919
Democrat
Delaware
Willard Saulsbury Jr.
1919 - 1925
Republican
Iowa
Albert B. Cummins
1925 - 1933
Republican
New Hamshire
George H. Moses
1933 - 1940
Democrat
Nevada
Key Pittman
1940 - 1941
Democrat
Utah
William H. King
1941
Democrat
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
1941 - 1945
Democrat
Virginia
Carter Glass
1945 - 1947
Democrat
Tennessee
Kenneth McKellar
1947 - 1949
Republican
Michigan
Arthur H. Vandenberg
1949 - 1953
Democrat
Tennessee
Kenneth McKellar
1953 - 1955
Republican
New Hampshire
Styles Bridges
1955 - 1957
Democrat
Georgia
Walter F. George
1957 - 1969
Democrat
Arizona
Carl Hayden
1969 - 1971
Democrat
Georgia
Richard Russell Jr.
1971 - 1972
Democrat
Louisianna
Allen J. Ellender
1972 - 1978
Democrat
Mississippi
James Eastland
1979 - 1980
Democrat
Washington
Warren Magnuson
1980
Republican
North Dakota
Milton Young
1980 - 1981
Democrat
Washington
Warren Magnuson
1981 - 1987
Republican
South Dakota
Strom Thurmond
1987 - 1989
Democrat
Mississippi
John C. Stennis
1989 - 1995
Democrat
West Virginia
Robert Byrd
1995 - 2001
Republican
South Dakota
Strom Thurmond
2001 - 2003
Democrat
West Virginia
Robert Byrd
2003 - 2007
Republican
Alaska
Ted Stevens
2007 - 2010
Democrat
West Virginia
Robert Byrd
2010 - 2012
Democrat
Hawaii
Daniel Inouye
2012 - 2015
Democrat
Vermont
Patrick Leahy
2015 - 2019
Republican
Utah
Orrin Hatch
2019 - 2021
Republican
Iowa
Chuck Grassley
2021 - 2023
Democrat
Vermont
Patrick Leahy
2023 - 2025
Democrat
Washington
Patty Murray
2025
Republican
Iowa
Chuck Grassley
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