List of presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate

President pro tempore (often shortened to pro tem) of the Texas Senate is a largely honorary position, but is second 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.

Seal of the Senate of Texas

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 Legislature is not in session.

Unlike his 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 constitutional post as president of the state senate.

Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate

Name	Party	Legislative Sessions
Edward Burleson	Democrat	1st, 2nd, 3rd
Jesse Grimes	Democrat	4th
M. D. K. Taylor	Democrat	5th
Jesse Grimes	Democrat	6th
M. D. K. Taylor	Democrat	7th
Samuel Maverick	Democrat	7th
Jesse Grimes	Democrat	8th
Robert Henry Guinn	Democrat	9th, 10th, 11th
Donald Campbell	Republican	12th
David Webster Flanagan	Republican	12th
Edward Bradford Pickett	Democrat	13th
John Ireland	Democrat	14th
Wells Thompson	Democrat	15th
Edwin Hobby	Democrat	16th
Leonidas Jefferson Storey	Democrat	16th
John Young Gooch	Democrat	17th
Francis Marion Martin	Democrat	17th
Augustus W. Houston	Democrat	18th
Samuel Bronson Cooper	Democrat	18th
William R. Shannon	Democrat	19th
Constantine Buckley "Buck" Kilgore	Democrat	19th
William Henry Pope	Democrat	20th
John Woods	Democrat	20th
Henry D. McDonald	Democrat	21st
William Henry Burges	Democrat	21st
John Walter Cranford	Democrat	22nd
Ernst Gustav Maetze	Democrat	22nd
Louis N. Frank	Democrat	22nd
Robert Hance Burney	Democrat	22nd
John G. Kearby	Democrat	23rd
Edwin Augustus Atlee	Democrat	23rd
Perry J. Lewis	Democrat	24th
James D. Woods	Democrat	24th
Joseph Burton Dibrell, Jr.	Democrat	25th
James R. Gough	Democrat	25th
Robert N. Stafford	Democrat	26th
William W. Turney	Democrat	26th
Barry Miller	Democrat	27th
George D. Neal	Democrat	27th
Daniel W. Odell	Democrat	27th
Asbury Bascom Davidson	Democrat	27th
Calhoun L. Potter	Democrat	27th
Asbury Bascom Davidson	Democrat	28th
Robert V. Davidson	Democrat	28th
George W. Savage	Democrat	28th
William A. Hanger	Democrat	29th
John G. Willacy	Democrat	29th
James J. Faulk	Democrat	29th
William C. McKamy, Jr.	Democrat	29th
Sidney P. Skinner	Democrat	30th
McDonald J. Meachum	Democrat	30th
A. P. Barrett	Democrat	30th
Benjamin F. Looney	Democrat	30th
James M. Terrell	Democrat	31st
Quintus et Ultimos Watson	Democrat	31st
Charles L. Brachfield	Democrat	31st
Edward I. Kellie	Democrat	31st
William O. Murray	Democrat	31st
Alfred J. Harper	Democrat	31st
David M. Alexander	Democrat	31st
Henry Berryman Terrell	Democrat	31st
Erasmus G. Senter	Democrat	31st
Ferdinand C. Weinert	Democrat	31st
Claude B. Hudspeth	Democrat	32nd
Thomas W. Perkins	Democrat	32nd
Charles Vernon Terrell	Democrat	32nd
Earle Bradford Mayfield	Democrat	32nd
Offa S. Lattimore	Democrat	33rd
William J. Greer	Democrat	33rd
Edgar H. Carter	Democrat	33rd
Vinson A. Collins	Democrat	33rd
Robert L. Warren	Democrat	33rd
James R. Wiley	Democrat	33rd
Flavious M. Gibson	Democrat	33rd
Wright C. Morrow	Democrat	33rd
Charles W. Taylor	Democrat	33rd
Quintus et Ultimos Watson	Democrat	33rd
Clinton W. Nugent	Democrat	34th
William J. Townsend, Jr.	Democrat	34th
James R. Wiley	Democrat	34th
Isaac E. Clark	Democrat	34th
John M. Henderson	Democrat	35th
Flavious M. Gibson	Democrat	35th
Ed Westbrook	Democrat	35th
William D. Suiter	Democrat	35th
Claude B. Hudspeth	Democrat	35th
Lon A. Smith	Democrat	35th
William L. Dean	Democrat	35th
James C. McNealus	Democrat	35th
William L. Dean	Democrat	35th
Willard A. Johnson	Democrat	35th
Edmond A. Decherd, Jr.	Democrat	35th
Rienzi Melville Johnston	Democrat	35th
Jeff J. Strickland	Democrat	36th
George W. Dayton	Democrat	36th
James M. Alderdice	Democrat	36th
Charles R. Buchanan	Democrat	36th
Paul D. Page	Democrat	36th
George M. Hopkins	Democrat	36th
Arren C. Buchanan	Democrat	36th
Ed Westbrook	Democrat	36th
Walter D. Caldwell	Democrat	36th
Martin Faust	Democrat	36th
Paul D. Page	Democrat	37th
Charles R. Floyd	Democrat	37th
John Heywood Bailey	Democrat	37th
Archie Parr	Democrat	37th
James H. Woods	Democrat	37th
Harry Hertzberg	Democrat	37th
Richard M. Dudley	Democrat	38th
William E. Watts	Democrat	38th
Dan S. McMillin	Democrat	38th
Edgar E. Witt	Democrat	38th
Charles A. Murphy	Democrat	38th
Isaac E. Clark	Democrat	38th
Henry L. Lewis	Democrat	38th
I. D. Fairchild	Democrat	38th
Alvin J. Wirtz	Democrat	39th
William H. Bledsoe	Democrat	39th
James G. Strong	Democrat	39th
John Davis	Democrat	39th
Ashley E. Wood	Democrat	40th
Thomas J. Holbrook	Democrat	40th
Tomas G. Pollard	Democrat	40th
Richard S. Bowers	Democrat	40th
Walter C. Woodward	Democrat	41st
Wilfred R. Cousins, Sr.	Democrat	41st
Eugene Miller	Democrat	41st
Margie E. Neal	Democrat	41st
Pink L. Parrish	Democrat	41st
Gus Russek	Democrat	41st
Benjamin F. Berkeley	Democrat	41st
Edgar E. Witt	Democrat	41st
Julian P. Greer	Democrat	41st
W. Albert "Cap" Williamson	Democrat	41st
Joseph M. Moore	Democrat	41st
Carl C. Hardin	Democrat	42nd
John W. E. H. Beck	Democrat	42nd
Tom A. DeBerry	Democrat	42nd
Clint C. Small	Democrat	42nd
William E. Thomason	Democrat	42nd
James W. Stevenson	Democrat	42nd
Jacob J. Loy	Democrat	42nd
Charles S. Gainer	Democrat	42nd
Oliver C. Cunningham	Democrat	42nd
H. Grady Woodruff	Democrat	42nd
Walter F. Woodul	Democrat	43rd
Nat Patton	Democrat	43rd
George C. Purl	Democrat	43rd
Welly K. Hopkins	Democrat	43rd
Frank H. Rawlings	Democrat	43rd
Margie E. Neal	Democrat	43rd
Cecil Murphy	Democrat	43rd
Joseph M. Moore	Democrat	43rd
Walter C. Woodward	Democrat	43rd
Kenneth M. Regan	Democrat	44th
John S. Redditt	Democrat	44th
Will M. Martin	Democrat	44th
Jim Neal	Democrat	44th
William Robert Poage	Democrat	44th
Wilbourne B. Collie	Democrat	44th
Roy Sanderford	Democrat	44th
Tom A. DeBerry	Democrat	44th
Will D. Pace	Democrat	45th
Claud C. Westerfeld	Democrat	45th
Olan R. Van Zandt	Democrat	45th
Claude Isbell	Democrat	45th
Allan Shivers	Democrat	45th
Benjamin G. Oneal	Democrat	45th
Weaver Moore	Democrat	46th
Albert Stone	Democrat	46th
Clay Cotten	Democrat	47th
Rudolph A. Weinert	Democrat	47th
E. Harold Beck	Democrat	47th
Henry L. Winfield	Democrat	47th
Vernon Lemens	Democrat	48th
Fred Mauritz	Democrat	48th
A. M. Aikin, Jr.	Democrat	48th
George C. Moffett	Democrat	49th
William Graves	Democrat	49th
Ben Ramsey	Democrat	50th
T. C. Chadick	Democrat	50th
Kyle Vick	Democrat	51st
George C. Morris	Democrat	51st
Grady Hazlewood	Democrat	51st
Wardlow W. Lane	Democrat	51st
Pat M. Bullock	Democrat	52nd
Howard A. Carney	Democrat	52nd
Rogers Kelley	Democrat	53rd
Jimmy Phillips	Democrat	53rd
Gus J. Strauss	Democrat	53rd
Dorsey B. Hardeman	Democrat	53rd
Crawford Martin	Democrat	54th
Neveille H. Colson	Democrat	54th
Ottis E. Lock	Democrat	55th
Carlos C. Ashley, Sr.	Democrat	55th
J. Searcy Bracewell, Jr.	Democrat	55th
William T. "Bill" Moore	Democrat	55th
Jep S. Fuller	Democrat	55th
George M. Parkhouse	Democrat	56th
Rudolph A. Weinert	Democrat	56th
Jarrard Secrest	Democrat	56th
Andrew J. "Andy" Rogers	Democrat	56th
Abraham "Chick" Kazen	Democrat	56th
Frank Owen, III	Democrat	56th
Ray Roberts	Democrat	57th
David Ratliff	Democrat	57th
Preston Smith	Democrat	57th
Bruce Reagan	Democrat	57th
Doyle Willis	Democrat	57th
Bruce Reagan	Democrat	57th
Charles F. Herring	Democrat	57th
Culp Krueger	Democrat	57th
Martin Dies, Jr.	Democrat	58th
Louis Crump	Democrat	58th
Tom Creighton	Democrat	59th
A. R. "Babe" Schwartz	Democrat	59th
Galloway Calhoun	Democrat	59th
W. N. "Bill" Patman	Democrat	60th
Ralph Hall	Democrat	60th
James Bates	Democrat	60th
D. Roy Harrington	Democrat	60th
Don Kennard	Democrat	61st
Murray Watson, Jr.	Democrat	61st
H. J. "Doc" Blanchard	Democrat	61st
J. P. Word	Democrat	61st
Criss Cole	Democrat	61st
Jack Hightower	Democrat	62nd
Wallace Eugene "Pete" Snelson	Democrat	62nd
Barbara Jordan	Democrat	62nd
Chet Brooks	Democrat	62nd
Wayne Connally	Democrat	62nd
Charles Wilson	Democrat	62nd
Oscar H. Mauzy	Democrat	63rd
O.H. "Ike" Harris	Republican	63rd
Max Sherman	Democrat	63rd
James P. Wallace	Democrat	63rd
Glenn Kothmann	Democrat	64th
H. Tati Santiesteban	Democrat	64th
Betty Andujar	Republican	65th
Don Adams	Democrat	65th
Peyton McKnight	Democrat	65th
Raul L. Longoria	Democrat	65th
William C. Meier	Democrat	66th
Bill Braecklein	Democrat	66th
John Traeger	Democrat	67th
Jack C. Ogg	Democrat	67th
Walter Mengden	Republican	67th
John T. Wilson	Democrat	67th
Grant Jones	Democrat	68th
Lloyd Doggett	Democrat	68th
Lindon Williams	Democrat	68th
Ray Farabee	Democrat	69th
Carlos F. Truan	Democrat	69th
Ed Howard	Democrat	69th
Carlos F. Truan	Democrat	69th
Carl A. Parker	Democrat	70th
Roy Blake, Sr.	Democrat	70th
John N. Leedom	Republican	71st
J. E. "Buster" Brown	Republican	71st
Kent A. Caperton	Democrat	71st
Craig A. Washington	Democrat	71st
Hugh Q. Parmer	Democrat	71st
Bob McFarland	Republican	71st
Robert J. Glasgow	Democrat	72nd
Don B. Henderson	Republican	72nd
Bill Sims	Democrat	72nd
John T. Montford	Democrat	73rd
John Whitmire	Democrat	73rd
Gonzalo Barrientos	Democrat	74th
Ken Armbrister	Democrat	74th
Judith Zaffirini	Democrat	75th
Bill Ratliff	Republican	75th
Teel Bivins	Republican	76th
Rodney Ellis	Democrat	76th
Chris Harris	Republican	77th
Mike Moncrief	Democrat	77th
Eddie Lucio, Jr.	Democrat	78th
Jane Nelson	Republican	78th
Jeff Wentworth	Republican	78th
Florence Shapiro	Republican	79th
Frank L. Madla	Democrat	79th
Royce West	Democrat	79th
Mario Gallegos, Jr.	Democrat	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	Democrat	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	Democrat	86th (Regular)
Joan Huffman	Republican	86th (Interim)
Brian Birdwell	Republican	87th (Regular)

References

• Legislative Reference Library of Texas (2006-05-16). "Presidents Pro Tempore of the Texas Senate, 1846-present". Archived from the original on 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2007-01-19.