[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Pages 1021-1028]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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STATISTICAL DATA
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See footnotes at end of
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PRESIDENTS PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
FROM THE FIRST CONGRESS TO END OF SECOND SESSION OF THE ONE
HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS
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[In earlier years the appointment or election of a President
pro tempore was held by the Senate to be for the
occasion only, so that more than one appears in several
sessions and in others none were chosen. Since Mar. 12,
1890, however, they have served until ``the Senate
otherwise ordered.'']
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Name of President pro
Congress tempore State Elected
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First................................ John Langdon........... New Hampshire.......... Apr. 6, 1789.
Second............................... Richard Henry Lee...... Virginia............... Apr. 18, 1792.
Do............................... John Langdon........... New Hampshire.......... Nov. 5, 1792.
Mar. 1, 1793.
Third................................ Ralph Izard\1\......... South Carolina......... May 31, 1794.
Do............................... Henry Tazewell......... Virginia............... Feb. 20, 1795.
Fourth............................... ......do............... ......do............... Dec. 7, 1795.
Do............................... Samuel Livermore....... New Hampshire.......... May 6, 1796.
Do............................... William Bingham........ Pennsylvania........... Feb. 16, 1797.
Fifth................................ William Bradford....... Rhode Island........... July 6, 1797.
Do............................... Jacob Read............. South Carolina......... Nov. 22, 1797.
Do............................... Theodore Sedgwick...... Massachusetts.......... June 27, 1798.
Do............................... John Laurance.......... New York............... Dec. 6, 1798.
Do............................... James Ross............. Pennsylvania........... Mar. 1, 1799.
Sixth................................ Samuel Livermore....... New Hampshire.......... Dec. 2, 1799.
Do............................... Uriah Tracy............ Connecticut............ May 14, 1800.
Do............................... John E. Howard......... Maryland............... Nov. 21, 1800.
Do............................... James Hillhouse........ Connecticut............ Feb. 28, 1801.
Seventh.............................. Abraham Baldwin........ Georgia................ Dec. 7, 1801.
Apr. 17, 1802.
Do............................... Stephen R. Bradley..... Vermont................ Dec. 14, 1802.
Feb. 25, 1803.
Mar. 2, 1803.
Eighth............................... John Brown............. Kentucky............... Oct. 17, 1803.
Jan. 23, 1804.
Do............................... Jesse Franklin......... North Carolina......... Mar. 10, 1804.
Do............................... Joseph Anderson........ Tennessee.............. Jan. 15, 1805.
Feb. 28, 1805.
Mar. 2, 1805.
Ninth................................ Samuel Smith........... Maryland............... Dec. 2, 1805.
Mar. 18, 1806.
Mar. 2, 1807.
Tenth................................ ......do............... ......do............... Apr. 16, 1808.
Do............................... Stephen R. Bradley..... Vermont................ Dec. 28, 1808.
Do............................... John Milledge.......... Georgia................ Jan. 30, 1809.
Eleventh............................. Andrew Gregg........... Pennsylvania........... June 26, 1809.
Do............................... John Gaillard.......... South Carolina......... Feb. 28, 1810.
Reelected Apr. 17,
1810.
Do............................... John Pope.............. Kentucky............... Feb. 23, 1811.
Twelfth.............................. William H. Crawford.... Georgia................ Mar. 24, 1812.
Thirteenth........................... Joseph B. Varnum....... Massachusetts.......... Dec. 6, 1813.
Do............................... John Gaillard.......... South Carolina......... Apr. 18, 1814.
Nov. 25, 1814, upon the
death of Vice
President Elbridge
Gerry.\2\
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Fourteenth........................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 6, 1817.
Mar. 31, 1818.
Fifteenth............................ ......do.\3\........... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... James Barbour.......... Virginia............... Feb. 15, 1819.
Sixteenth............................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... John Gaillard.......... South Carolina......... Jan. 25, 1820.
Seventeenth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... Feb. 1, 1822.
Feb. 19, 1823.
Eighteenth........................... ......do............... ......do............... May 21, 1824.
Nineteenth........................... ......do.\4\........... ......do............... Mar. 9, 1825.
Do............................... Nathaniel Macon........ North Carolina......... May 20, 1826.
Jan. 2, 1827.
Mar. 2, 1827.
Twentieth............................ Samuel Smith\5\........ Maryland............... May 15, 1828.
Twenty-first......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 13, 1829.\4\
May 29, 1830.
Mar. 1, 1831.\6\
Twenty-second........................ Littleton W. Tazewell.. Virginia............... July 9, 1832.
Do............................... Hugh L. White.......... Tennessee.............. Dec. 3, 1832.
Twenty-third......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... George Poindexter...... Mississippi............ June 28, 1834.
Do............................... John Tyler............. Virginia............... Mar. 3, 1835.
Twenty-fourth........................ William R. King........ Alabama................ July 1, 1836.
Jan. 28, 1837.
Twenty-fifth......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 7, 1837.\4\
Oct. 13, 1837.
July 2, 1838.
Feb. 25, 1839.
Twenty-sixth......................... ......do.\7\........... ......do............... .......................
July 3, 1840.
Mar. 3, 1841.
Twenty-seventh....................... William R. King\4\..... Alabama................ Mar. 4, 1841.
Do............................... Samuel L. Southard\8\.. New Jersey............. Mar. 11, 1841.
Do............................... Willie P. Mangum....... North Carolina......... May 31, 1842.
Twenty-eighth........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Twenty-ninth......................... Ambrose H. Sevier\9\... Arkansas............... Dec. 27, 1845.
Do............................... David R. Atchison...... Missouri............... Aug. 8, 1846.
Jan. 11, 1847.
Mar. 3, 1847.
Thirtieth............................ ......do............... ......do............... Feb. 2, 1848.
June 1, 1848.
June 26, 1848.
July 29, 1848.
Dec. 26, 1848.
Mar. 2, 1849.
Thirty-first......................... David R. Atchison\4\... Missouri............... Mar. 5, 1849.
Mar. 16, 1849.
Do............................... William R. King........ Alabama................ May 6, 1850.
July 11, 1850.
Thirty-second........................ ......do.\10\.......... ......do............... .......................
Thirty-second.................... David R. Atchison...... Missouri............... Dec. 20, 1852.
Thirty-third......................... ......do.\4\........... ......do............... Mar. 4, 1853.
Do............................... Lewis Cass\11\......... Michigan............... Dec. 4, 1854.
Do............................... Jesse D. Bright........ Indiana................ Dec. 5, 1854.
Thirty-fourth........................ ......do.\12\.......... ......do............... June 11, 1856.
Do............................... Charles E. Stuart\13\.. Michigan............... June 9, 1856.
Do............................... James M. Mason\14\..... Virginia............... Jan. 6, 1857.
Thirty-fifth......................... ......do.\4\........... ......do............... Mar. 4, 1857.
Do............................... Thomas J. Rusk\4\...... Texas.................. Mar. 14, 1857.
Do............................... Benjamin Fitzpatrick... Alabama................ Dec. 7, 1857.
Mar. 29, 1858.
June 14, 1858.
Jan. 25, 1859.
Thirty-sixth......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 9, 1859.\4\
Dec. 19, 1859.
Feb. 20, 1860.\4\
June 26, 1860.
Do............................... Jesse D. Bright........ Indiana................ June 12, 1860.
Do............................... Solomon Foot........... Vermont................ Feb. 16, 1861.
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Thirty-seventh....................... Solomon Foot........... ......do............... Mar. 23, 1861.\4\
July 18, 1861.
Jan. 15, 1862.
Mar. 31, 1862.
June 19, 1862.
Feb. 18, 1863.
Thirty-eighth........................ ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 4, 1863.\4\
Dec. 18, 1863.
Feb. 23, 1864.
Apr. 11, 1864.
Do............................... Daniel Clark........... New Hampshire.......... Apr. 26, 1864.
Feb. 9, 1865.
Thirty-ninth......................... Layfayette S. Connecticut............ Mar. 7, 1865.
Foster\15\.
Do............................... Benjamin F. Wade....... Ohio................... Mar. 2, 1867.
Fortieth............................. ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Forty-first.......................... Henry B. Anthony....... Rhode Island........... Mar. 23, 1869.
Apr. 9, 1869.
May 28, 1870.
July 1, 1870.
July 14, 1870.
Forty-second......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 10, 1871.
Apr. 17, 1871.
May 23, 1871.\4\
Dec. 21, 1871.
Feb. 23, 1872.
June 8, 1872.
Do............................... ......do............... ......do............... Dec. 4, 1872.
Dec. 13, 1872.
Dec. 20, 1872.
Jan. 24, 1873.
Forty-third.......................... Matthew H. Carpenter... Wisconsin.............. Mar. 12, 1873.\4\
Mar. 26, 1873.\4\
Dec. 11, 1873.
Dec. 23, 1874.
Do............................... Henry B. Anthony....... Rhode Island........... Jan. 23, 1875.
Feb. 15, 1875.
Forty-fourth......................... Thomas W. Ferry........ Michigan............... Mar. 9, 1875.\4\
Mar. 19, 1875.\4\
Dec. 20, 1875.
Forty-fifth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 5, 1877.\4\
Feb. 26, 1878.
Apr. 17, 1878.
Mar. 3, 1879.
Forty-sixth.......................... Allen G. Thurman....... Ohio................... Apr. 15, 1879.
Apr. 7, 1880.
May 6, 1880.
Forty-seventh........................ Thomas F. Bayard....... Delaware............... Oct. 10, 1881.\4\
Do............................... David Davis\16\........ Illinois............... Oct. 13, 1881.
Do............................... George F. Edmunds...... Vermont................ Mar. 3, 1883.
Forty-eighth......................... ......do.\17\.......... ......do............... Jan. 14, 1884.
Forty-ninth.......................... John Sherman\18\....... Ohio................... Dec. 7, 1885.
Do............................... John J. Ingalls........ Kansas................. Feb. 25, 1887.
Fiftieth............................. ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Fifty-first.......................... ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 7, 1889.\4\
Apr. 2, 1889.\4\
Feb. 28, 1890.
Apr. 3, 1890.\19\
Do............................... Charles F. Manderson... Nebraska............... Mar. 2, 1891.
Fifty-second......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Fifty-third.......................... ......do.\20\.......... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... Isham G. Harris\4\..... Tennessee.............. Mar. 22, 1893.
Do............................... Matt W. Ransom\21\..... North Carolina......... Jan. 7, 1895.
Do............................... Isham G. Harris........ Tennessee.............. Jan. 10, 1895.
Fifty-fourth......................... William P. Frye........ Maine.................. Feb. 7, 1896.
Fifty-fifth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Fifty-sixth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Fifty-seventh........................ ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 7, 1901.\4\
Fifty-eighth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Fifty-ninth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Sixtieth............................. ......do............... ......do............... Dec. 5, 1907.
Sixty-first.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Sixty-second......................... ......do.\22\.......... ......do............... .......................
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Do............................... Charles Curtis\23\..... Kansas................. Dec. 4, 1911.
Do............................... Augustus O. Bacon\24\.. Georgia................ Jan. 15, 1912.
Do............................... Jacob H. Gallinger\25\. New Hampshire.......... Feb. 12, 1912.
Do............................... Henry Cabot Lodge\26\.. Massachusetts.......... Mar. 25, 1912.
Do............................... Frank B. Brandegee\27\. Connecticut............ May 25, 1912.
Sixty-third.......................... James P. Clarke........ Arkansas............... Mar. 13, 1913.\4\
Sixty-fourth......................... ......do.\28\.......... ......do............... Dec. 6, 1915.
Do............................... Willard Saulsbury...... Delaware............... Dec. 14, 1916.
Sixty-fifth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Sixty-sixth.......................... Albert B. Cummins...... Iowa................... May 19, 1919.
Sixty-seventh........................ ......do............... ......do............... Mar. 7, 1921.\4\
Sixty-eighth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Sixty-ninth.......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... George H. Moses........ New Hampshire.......... Mar. 6, 1925.\4\
Seventieth........................... ......do............... ......do............... Dec. 15, 1927.
Seventy-first........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Seventy-second....................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Seventy-third........................ Key Pittman............ Nevada................. Mar. 9, 1933.
Seventy-fourth....................... ......do............... ......do............... Jan. 7, 1935.
Seventy-fifth........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Seventy-sixth........................ ......do.\29\.......... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... William H. King........ Utah................... Nov. 19, 1940.
Seventy-seventh...................... Pat Harrison\30\....... Mississippi............ Jan. 6, 1941.
Do............................... Carter Glass........... Virginia............... July 10, 1941.
Seventy-eighth....................... ......do............... ......do............... Jan. 5, 1943.
Seventy-ninth........................ Kenneth McKellar....... Tennessee.............. Jan. 6, 1945.
Eightieth............................ Arthur H. Vandenberg... Michigan............... Jan. 4, 1947.
Eighty-first......................... Kenneth McKellar....... Tennessee.............. Jan. 3, 1949.
Eighty-second........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Eighty-third......................... Styles Bridges......... New Hampshire.......... Jan. 3, 1953.
Eighty-fourth........................ Walter F. George....... Georgia................ Jan. 5, 1955.
Eighty-fifth......................... Carl Hayden............ Arizona................ Jan. 3, 1957.
Eighty-sixth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Eighty-seventh....................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Eighty-eighth........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Eighty-ninth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninetieth............................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninety-first......................... Richard B. Russell \31\ Georgia................ Jan. 3, 1969.
Ninety-second........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Do............................... Allen J. Ellender \32\. Louisiana.............. Jan. 22, 1971.
Do............................... James O. Eastland...... Mississippi............ July 28, 1972.
Ninety-third......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninety-fourth........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninety-fifth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninety-sixth......................... Warren G. Magnuson..... Washington............. Jan. 15, 1979.
Do............................... Milton R. Young\33\.... North Dakota........... Dec. 4, 1980.
Ninety-seventh....................... Strom Thurmond......... South Carolina......... Jan. 5, 1981.
Ninety-eighth........................ ......do............... ......do............... .......................
Ninety-ninth......................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
One-hundredth........................ John C. Stennis........ Mississippi............ Jan. 6, 1987.
One-hundred-first.................... Robert C. Byrd......... West Virginia.......... Jan. 3, 1989.
One-hundred-second................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
One-hundred-third.................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
One-hundred-fourth................... Strom Thurmond......... South Carolina......... Jan. 4, 1995.
One-hundred-fifth.................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
One-hundred-sixth.................... ......do............... ......do............... .......................
One-hundred-seventh.................. Robert C. Byrd\34\..... West Virginia.......... Jan. 3, 2001
Do............................... Strom Thurmond\35\..... South Carolina......... Jan 20, 2001
Do............................... Robert C. Byrd......... West Virginia.......... June 6, 2001
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\1\Samuel Livermore was elected Feb. 20, 1795, but declined.
\2\Vice President Gerry died in preceding Congress.
\3\Continuing from preceding session; elected Mar. 6, 1817 (special session of the Senate).
\4\Special session of the Senate.
\5\Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, was first elected on the same day, but declined to serve.
\6\Littleton W. Tazewell, of Virginia, was first elected, but declined to serve.
\7\Continuing from preceding session.
\8\Special session of the Senate. Resigned as President pro tempore May 31, 1842.
\9\Served as President pro tempore 1 day, under designation by the Vice President.
\10\Resigned as President pro tempore Dec. 20, 1852.
\11\For 1 day only.
\12\Continued from preceding Congress.
\13\Served June 5, 1856; resigned June 11, 1856.
\14\Served Jan. 5, 1856.
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\15\Special session of the Senate. Elected ``to serve in the absence of the Vice President'' and served until
Mar. 2, 1867.
\16\Special session of the Senate. Resigned Mar. 3, 1883.
\17\Reelected.
\18\Resigned, effective Feb. 26, 1887.
\19\Resigned as President pro tempore, effective Mar. 2, 1891.
\20\Resigned as President pro tempore Mar. 22, 1893.
\21\Resigned as President pro tempore Jan. 10, 1895.
\22\Resigned as President pro tempore Apr. 27, 1911.
\23\Elected to serve Dec. 4 to 12, 1911.
\24\Elected to serve Jan. 15 to 17, Mar. 11 and 12, Apr. 8, May 10, May 30 to June 3, June 13 to July 5, Aug. 1
to 10, and Aug. 27 to Dec. 15, 1912; Jan. 5 to 18 and Feb. 2 to 15, 1913.
\25\Elected to serve Feb. 12 to 14, Apr. 26 and 27, May 7, July 6 to 31, Aug. 12 to 26, 1912; Dec. 16, 1912, to
Jan. 4, 1913; Jan 19 to Feb. 1 and Feb. 16 to Mar. 3, 1913.
\26\Elected to serve Mar. 25 and 26, 1912.
\27\Elected to serve May 25, 1912.
\28\Died Oct. 1, 1916.
\29\Died Nov. 10, 1940.
\30\Died June 22, 1941.
\31\Died Jan. 21, 1971.
\32\Died July 27, 1972.
\33\Elected to serve for one day only (Dec. 5, 1980).
\34\Elected to serve Jan. 3 to Jan. 20, 2001.
\35\Designated President pro tempore emeritus of the United States Senate. (S. Res. 103, 107-1, June 6, 2001.)
deputy president pro tempore of the senate
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deputy president pro tempore of the senate\1\
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Congress Name State Elected
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95th................................. Hubert H. Humphrey\2\.. Minnesota.............. Jan. 11, 1977
(effective Jan. 5,
1977).
100th \3\............................ George J. Mitchell..... Maine.................. Jan. 28, 1987.
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\1\This office was established by S. Res. 17, 95-1, agreed to Jan. 10, 1977 (effective Jan. 5, 1977). The
resolution provided that ``[a]ny Member of the Senate who has held the Office of President of the United
States or Vice President of the United States shall be a Deputy President pro tempore''.
\2\Died Jan. 13, 1978.
\3\ S. Res. 90, 100-1, agreed to Jan. 28, 1987, provided that in addition to Senators who hold the Office of
Deputy President pro tempore under authority of S. Res. 17, 95-1, any other Member of the Senate designated by
Senate resolution shall hold the office at the pleasure of the Senate during the 100th Congress. Senator
Mitchell was so designated by S. Res. 91, agreed to the same date.
1282
1282
permanent acting president pro tempore of the senate\1\
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Congress Name State Elected
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88th-95th............................ Lee Metcalf \2\........ Montana................ Feb. 7, 1964.
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\1\Development of this office started in 1963 upon adoption of S. Res. 232 and S. Res. 238, making Senator
Metcalf Permanent Acting President pro tempore from Dec. 9, 1963, until meeting of the second regular session
of the 88th Congress. On Feb. 7, 1964, S. Res. 296 was adopted authorizing Senator Metcalf ``to perform the
duties of the Chair as Acting President pro tempore until otherwise ordered by the Senate.''
\2\Died Jan. 12, 1978.