Seal of the Senate of Texas
President pro tempore (often shortened to pro tem ) of the Texas Senate is a largely honorary position, and is third in the line for the governorship of Texas . If the governor and lieutenant governor are both out of the state, the president pro tem is acting governor in their absence.
At the beginning of each session, the Senate elects one member to serve as the president pro tempore when the lieutenant governor is absent or that office becomes vacant. A different member of the Senate (usually a senior member, but unlike in some bodies, it is not based on seniority) is elected at the end of the session to serve as president pro tempore during the interim when the state legislature is not in session. The Senate traditionally honors presidents pro tempore once during their term by having the governor and lieutenant governor leave the state on the same day and inaugurating the president pro tempore as governor for a day.[1]
Unlike his or her counterparts in other state senates, the president pro tempore does not preside over the chamber on a daily basis; Texas's lieutenant governor regularly exercises his or her constitutional post as president of the state senate.
Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate
Name
Party
Legislative sessions
Edward Burleson
Democratic
1st , 2nd , 3rd
Jesse Grimes
Democratic
4th
M. D. K. Taylor
Democratic
5th
Jesse Grimes
Democratic
6th
M. D. K. Taylor
Democratic
7th
Samuel Maverick
Democratic
7th
Jesse Grimes
Democratic
8th
Robert Henry Guinn
Democratic
9th , 10th , 11th
Donald Campbell
Republican
12th
David Webster Flanagan
Republican
12th
Edward Bradford Pickett
Democratic
13th
John Ireland
Democratic
14th
Wells Thompson
Democratic
15th
Edwin Hobby
Democratic
16th
Leonidas Jefferson Storey
Democratic
16th
John Young Gooch
Democratic
17th
Francis Marion Martin
Democratic
17th
Augustus W. Houston
Democratic
18th
Samuel Bronson Cooper
Democratic
18th
William R. Shannon
Democratic
19th
Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore
Democratic
19th
William Henry Pope
Democratic
20th
John Woods
Democratic
20th
Henry D. McDonald
Democratic
21st
William Henry Burges
Democratic
21st
John Walter Cranford
Democratic
22nd
Ernst Gustav Maetze
Democratic
22nd
Louis N. Frank
Democratic
22nd
Robert Hance Burney
Democratic
22nd
John G. Kearby
Democratic
23rd
Edwin Augustus Atlee
Democratic
23rd
Perry J. Lewis
Democratic
24th
James D. Woods
Democratic
24th
Joseph Burton Dibrell, Jr.
Democratic
25th
James R. Gough
Democratic
25th
Robert N. Stafford
Democratic
26th
William W. Turney
Democratic
26th
Barry Miller
Democratic
27th
George D. Neal
Democratic
27th
Daniel W. Odell
Democratic
27th
Asbury Bascom Davidson
Democratic
27th
Calhoun L. Potter
Democratic
27th
Asbury Bascom Davidson
Democratic
28th
Robert V. Davidson
Democratic
28th
George W. Savage
Democratic
28th
William A. Hanger
Democratic
29th
John G. Willacy
Democratic
29th
James J. Faulk
Democratic
29th
William C. McKamy, Jr.
Democratic
29th
Sidney P. Skinner
Democratic
30th
McDonald J. Meachum
Democratic
30th
A. P. Barrett
Democratic
30th
Benjamin F. Looney
Democratic
30th
James M. Terrell
Democratic
31st
Quintus et Ultimos Watson
Democratic
31st
Charles L. Brachfield
Democratic
31st
Edward I. Kellie
Democratic
31st
William O. Murray
Democratic
31st
Alfred J. Harper
Democratic
31st
David M. Alexander
Democratic
31st
Henry Berryman Terrell
Democratic
31st
Erasmus G. Senter
Democratic
31st
Ferdinand C. Weinert
Democratic
31st
Claude B. Hudspeth
Democratic
32nd
Thomas W. Perkins
Democratic
32nd
Charles Vernon Terrell
Democratic
32nd
Earle Bradford Mayfield
Democratic
32nd
Offa S. Lattimore
Democratic
33rd
William J. Greer
Democratic
33rd
Edgar H. Carter
Democratic
33rd
Vinson A. Collins
Democratic
33rd
Robert L. Warren
Democratic
33rd
James R. Wiley
Democratic
33rd
Flavious M. Gibson
Democratic
33rd
Wright C. Morrow
Democratic
33rd
Charles W. Taylor
Democratic
33rd
Quintus et Ultimos Watson
Democratic
33rd
Clinton W. Nugent
Democratic
34th
William J. Townsend, Jr.
Democratic
34th
James R. Wiley
Democratic
34th
Isaac E. Clark
Democratic
34th
John M. Henderson
Democratic
35th
Flavious M. Gibson
Democratic
35th
Ed Westbrook
Democratic
35th
William D. Suiter
Democratic
35th
Claude B. Hudspeth
Democratic
35th
Lon A. Smith
Democratic
35th
William L. Dean
Democratic
35th
James C. McNealus
Democratic
35th
William L. Dean
Democratic
35th
Willard A. Johnson
Democratic
35th
Edmond A. Decherd, Jr.
Democratic
35th
Rienzi Melville Johnston
Democratic
35th
Jeff J. Strickland
Democratic
36th
George W. Dayton
Democratic
36th
James M. Alderdice
Democratic
36th
Charles R. Buchanan
Democratic
36th
Paul D. Page
Democratic
36th
George M. Hopkins
Democratic
36th
Arren C. Buchanan
Democratic
36th
Ed Westbrook
Democratic
36th
Walter D. Caldwell
Democratic
36th
Martin Faust
Democratic
36th
Paul D. Page
Democratic
37th
Charles R. Floyd
Democratic
37th
John Heywood Bailey
Democratic
37th
Archie Parr
Democratic
37th
James H. Woods
Democratic
37th
Harry Hertzberg
Democratic
37th
Richard M. Dudley
Democratic
38th
William E. Watts
Democratic
38th
Dan S. McMillin
Democratic
38th
Edgar E. Witt
Democratic
38th
Charles A. Murphy
Democratic
38th
Isaac E. Clark
Democratic
38th
Henry L. Lewis
Democratic
38th
I. D. Fairchild
Democratic
38th
Alvin J. Wirtz
Democratic
39th
William H. Bledsoe
Democratic
39th
James G. Strong
Democratic
39th
John Davis
Democratic
39th
Ashley E. Wood
Democratic
40th
Thomas J. Holbrook
Democratic
40th
Tomas G. Pollard
Democratic
40th
Richard S. Bowers
Democratic
40th
Walter C. Woodward
Democratic
41st
Wilfred R. Cousins, Sr.
Democratic
41st
Eugene Miller
Democratic
41st
Margie E. Neal
Democratic
41st
Pink L. Parrish
Democratic
41st
Gus Russek
Democratic
41st
Benjamin F. Berkeley
Democratic
41st
Edgar E. Witt
Democratic
41st
Julian P. Greer
Democratic
41st
W. Albert "Cap" Williamson
Democratic
41st
Joseph M. Moore
Democratic
41st
Carl C. Hardin
Democratic
42nd
John W. E. H. Beck
Democratic
42nd
Tom A. DeBerry
Democratic
42nd
Clint C. Small
Democratic
42nd
William E. Thomason
Democratic
42nd
James W. Stevenson
Democratic
42nd
Jacob J. Loy
Democratic
42nd
Charles S. Gainer
Democratic
42nd
Oliver C. Cunningham
Democratic
42nd
H. Grady Woodruff
Democratic
42nd
Walter F. Woodul
Democratic
43rd
Nat Patton
Democratic
43rd
George C. Purl
Democratic
43rd
Welly K. Hopkins
Democratic
43rd
Frank H. Rawlings
Democratic
43rd
Margie E. Neal
Democratic
43rd
Cecil Murphy
Democratic
43rd
Joseph M. Moore
Democratic
43rd
Walter C. Woodward
Democratic
43rd
Kenneth M. Regan
Democratic
44th
John S. Redditt
Democratic
44th
Will M. Martin
Democratic
44th
Jim Neal
Democratic
44th
William Robert Poage
Democratic
44th
Wilbourne B. Collie
Democratic
44th
Roy Sanderford
Democratic
44th
Tom A. DeBerry
Democratic
44th
Will D. Pace
Democratic
45th
Claud C. Westerfeld
Democratic
45th
Olan R. Van Zandt
Democratic
45th
Claude Isbell
Democratic
45th
Allan Shivers
Democratic
45th
Benjamin G. Oneal
Democratic
45th
Weaver Moore
Democratic
46th
Albert Stone
Democratic
46th
Clay Cotten
Democratic
47th
Rudolph A. Weinert
Democratic
47th
E. Harold Beck
Democratic
47th
Henry L. Winfield
Democratic
47th
Vernon Lemens
Democratic
48th
Fred Mauritz
Democratic
48th
A. M. Aikin, Jr.
Democratic
48th
George C. Moffett
Democratic
49th
William Graves
Democratic
49th
Ben Ramsey
Democratic
50th
T. C. Chadick
Democratic
50th
Kyle Vick
Democratic
51st
George C. Morris
Democratic
51st
Grady Hazlewood
Democratic
51st
Wardlow W. Lane
Democratic
51st
Pat M. Bullock
Democratic
52nd
Howard A. Carney
Democratic
52nd
Rogers Kelley
Democratic
53rd
Jimmy Phillips
Democratic
53rd
Gus J. Strauss
Democratic
53rd
Dorsey B. Hardeman
Democratic
53rd
Crawford Martin
Democratic
54th
Neveille H. Colson
Democratic
54th
Ottis E. Lock
Democratic
55th
Carlos C. Ashley, Sr.
Democratic
55th
J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr.
Democratic
55th
William T. "Bill" Moore
Democratic
55th
Jep S. Fuller
Democratic
55th
George M. Parkhouse
Democratic
56th
Rudolph A. Weinert
Democratic
56th
Jarrard Secrest
Democratic
56th
Andrew J. "Andy" Rogers
Democratic
56th
Abraham "Chick" Kazen
Democratic
56th
Frank Owen, III
Democratic
56th
Ray Roberts
Democratic
57th
David Ratliff
Democratic
57th
Preston Smith
Democratic
57th
Bruce Reagan
Democratic
57th
Doyle Willis
Democratic
57th
Bruce Reagan
Democratic
57th
Charles F. Herring
Democratic
57th
Culp Krueger
Democratic
57th
Martin Dies, Jr.
Democratic
58th
Louis Crump
Democratic
58th
Tom Creighton
Democratic
59th
A. R. "Babe" Schwartz
Democratic
59th
Galloway Calhoun
Democratic
59th
W. N. "Bill" Patman
Democratic
60th
Ralph Hall
Democratic
60th
James Bates
Democratic
60th
D. Roy Harrington
Democratic
60th
Don Kennard
Democratic
61st
Murray Watson, Jr.
Democratic
61st
H. J. "Doc" Blanchard
Democratic
61st
J. P. Word
Democratic
61st
Criss Cole
Democratic
61st
Jack Hightower
Democratic
62nd
Wallace Eugene "Pete" Snelson
Democratic
62nd
Barbara Jordan
Democratic
62nd
Chet Brooks
Democratic
62nd
Wayne Connally
Democratic
62nd
Charles Wilson
Democratic
62nd
Oscar H. Mauzy
Democratic
63rd
O.H. "Ike" Harris
Republican
63rd
Max Sherman
Democratic
63rd
James P. Wallace
Democratic
63rd
Glenn Kothmann
Democratic
64th
H. Tati Santiesteban
Democratic
64th
Betty Andujar
Republican
65th
Don Adams
Democratic
65th
Peyton McKnight
Democratic
65th
Raul L. Longoria
Democratic
65th
William C. Meier
Democratic
66th
Bill Braecklein
Democratic
66th
John Traeger
Democratic
67th
Jack C. Ogg
Democratic
67th
Walter Mengden
Republican
67th
John T. Wilson
Democratic
67th
Grant Jones
Democratic
68th
Lloyd Doggett
Democratic
68th
Lindon Williams
Democratic
68th
Ray Farabee
Democratic
69th
Carlos F. Truan
Democratic
69th
Ed Howard
Democratic
69th
Carlos F. Truan
Democratic
69th
Carl A. Parker
Democratic
70th
Roy Blake, Sr.
Democratic
70th
John N. Leedom
Republican
71st
J. E. "Buster" Brown
Republican
71st
Kent A. Caperton
Democratic
71st
Craig A. Washington
Democratic
71st
Hugh Q. Parmer
Democratic
71st
Bob McFarland
Republican
71st
Robert J. Glasgow
Democratic
72nd
Don B. Henderson
Republican
72nd
Bill Sims
Democratic
72nd
John T. Montford
Democratic
73rd
John Whitmire
Democratic
73rd
Gonzalo Barrientos
Democratic
74th
Ken Armbrister
Democratic
74th
Judith Zaffirini
Democratic
75th
Bill Ratliff
Republican
75th
Teel Bivins
Republican
76th
Rodney Ellis
Democratic
76th
Chris Harris
Republican
77th
Mike Moncrief
Democratic
77th
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Democratic
78th
Jane Nelson
Republican
78th
Jeff Wentworth
Republican
78th
Florence Shapiro
Republican
79th
Frank L. Madla
Democratic
79th
Royce West
Democratic
79th
Mario Gallegos, Jr.
Democratic
80th
John Carona
Republican
80th
Robert L. Duncan
Republican
81st (Regular)
Troy Fraser
Republican
81st (Interim)
Steve Ogden
Republican
82nd (Regular)
Mike Jackson
Republican
82nd (Interim)
Leticia Van de Putte
Democratic
83rd (Regular)
Craig Estes
Republican
83rd (Interim)
Juan Hinojosa
Democrat
84th (Regular)
Kevin Eltife
Republican
84th (Interim)
Kel Seliger
Republican
85th (Regular)
Robert Nichols
Republican
85th (Interim)
Kirk Watson
Democratic
86th (Regular)
Joan Huffman
Republican
86th (Interim)
Brian Birdwell
Republican
87th (Regular)
Donna Campbell
Republican
87th (Interim)
Kelly Hancock
Republican
88th (Regular)
Charles Schwertner
Republican
88th (Interim)
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