President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate

The president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate (commonly known as the "president pro-tem") is a constitutionally-created office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The current president pro tempore is Republican Kim Ward.

Overview

The position of president pro tempore replaced the abolished position of speaker of the Senate in the Constitution of 1874.[1]

The office is filled through election by the full Senate membership, though its holder typically comes from the majority party. The president pro tempore is designated as second in the gubernatorial succession, behind the lieutenant governor.[1][2][3]

Duties

The president pro tempore presides over the Senate in the absence of the lieutenant governor and appoints committee chairs, votes on all bills, and is the leader of the Senate. In issues involving both chambers of the General Assembly, the president pro tempore confers with the speaker of the House.[1]

List of speakers of the Pennsylvania Senate

Name Party County Term
Samuel Powel Federalist Delaware, Philadelphia 1792–1793
Anthony Morris Federalist Philadelphia 1793–1794
William Bingham Federalist Delaware, Philadelphia 1794–1795
Robert Hare Sr. Federalist Delaware, Philadelphia 1795–1799
John Woods Federalist Allegheny, Washington 1799–1801
Samuel Maclay Democratic-Republican Northumberland 1801–1802
John Pearson Democratic-Republican Lancaster 1802–1803
Robert Whitehill Democratic-Republican Cumberland 1803–1805
James Young Brady Constitutionalist[a] Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland 1805–1806
John Francis Steele Democratic-Republican Lancaster 1805–1806
Presely Carr Lane Sr. Democratic-Republican Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland 1806–1814
Walter Lowrie Democratic-Republican Allegheny, Beaver, Butler 1813–1814
John Tod Democratic-Republican Bedford, Cambria, Somerset 1814–1816
Isaac Weaver Jr. Democratic-Republican Greene, Washington 1817–1820
William Marks Democratic Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler 1820–1825
Philip S. Markley Democratic Montgomery 1821–1822
Thomas Burnside Sr. Democratic Centre, Clearfield, McKean, Potter, Tioga 1825–1826
Alexander Mahon Sr. Democratic Cumberland, Perry 1825–1828
William George Hawkins Sr. Democratic Fayette, Greene, Washington 1831–1832
Thomas Ringland Democratic Greene, Washington 1833–1834
Jesse Reading Burden Democratic Philadelphia 1833–1834
Thomas Scott Cunningham Democratic Crawford, Erie, Mercer 1835–1836
Jesse Reading Burden Whig Philadelphia 1837–1838
Charles Bingham Penrose Whig Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, Philadelphia 1838–1839
William Tennet Rogers Democratic Bucks 1839
Ebeneezer Kingsbury Jr. Democratic Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne 1841
John Strohm Anti-Masonic Lancaster, York 1841
Charles Bingham Penrose Whig Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, Philadelphia 1841
John Hoge Ewing Whig Washington 1842
William Hiester Whig Lancaster, York 1842
Benjamin Crispin Democratic Philadelphia 1843
William Bigler Democratic Armstrong, Camrbia, Clarion, Clearfield, Indiana 1844–1845
John B. Sterigere Democratic Chester, Delaware, Montgomery 1845
William Pendleton Wilcox Democratic Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Venango, Warren 1845
Daniel Lee Sherwood Jr. Democratic Tioga, Bradford 1846
Charles L. Gibbons Sr. Whig Philadelphia 1847
William Sterling Ross Improvement Democrat[b] Columbia, Luzerne 1847
William Williamson Jr. Whig Chester, Delaware 1847
William F. Johnston Whig Chester, Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana 1848
George Darsie Whig Allegheny, Butler 1848–1849
Valentine Best Democratic Columbia, Luzerne 1849
Benjamin Matthias Whig Philadelphia 1851
Christan Myers Whig Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana 1852
John Hoge Walker Whig Crawford, Erie 1852
Thomas Erskin Carson Whig Adams, Franklin 1853
John Christian Kunkel Whig Dauphin, Northumberland 1853
Byron Delano Hamlin Democratic Clearfield, Elk, Forest, McKean, Potter, Tioga 1855
William Muhlenberg Hiester Democratic Berks 1855
William McKinney Piatt Democratic Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming 1855–1856
Nathaniel Borrodaille Browne Democratic Philadelphia 1856
Darwin A. Finney Whig Crawford, Erie 1857
David Taggart Whig Dauphin, Northumberland 1857
John M. Cresswell Jr. Democratic Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon 1858
William Henry Welsh Democratic York 1858
Jacob Turney Democratic Fayette, Westmoreland 1859
William Miller Francis Republican Lawrence, Mercer, Venango 1860
Robert Moffett Palmer Republican Schuylkill 1860–1861
Louis Williams Hall Sr. Republican Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry 1861–1862
George van Eman Lawrence Republican Beaver, Greene, Washington 1863
John P. Penny Sr. Republican Allegheny 1863–1864
Louis Williams Hall Sr. Republican Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry 1864
William J. Turrell Republican Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming 1865
David Fleming Republican Dauphin, Lebanon 1866
Louis Williams Hall Sr. Republican Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry 1866–1867
James Leonard Graham Republican Allegheny 1868
Wilmer Worthington Republican Chester, Delaware, Montgomery 1869
Charles Henderson Stinson Republican Chester, Delaware, Montgomery 1869–1870
Albert Gallatin Brodhead Democratic Carbon, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne 1871
William A. Wallace Democratic Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk 1871
James Smith Rutan Republican Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington 1872
George Holmes Anderson Republican Allegheny 1873
George H. Cutler Republican Erie, Warren 1874
Butler B. Strang Republican Cameron, McKean, Potter, Tioga 1874
Henry Lloyd White Republican Armstorong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland 1874
Elisha W. Davis Republican Philadelphia 1875–1876

List of presidents pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate

Name Party County Elected
George H. Cutler Republican Erie 1875
Elisha W. Davis Republican Philadelphia 1875,76
John Christopher Newmyer Republican Allegheny 1876,77
Thomas Valentine Cooper Republican Delaware 1877,78
Andrew Jackson Herr Republican Dauphin 1878,79
John Lamon Republican Philadelphia 1879
William Imlay Newell Republican Philadelphia 1881
Hugh McNeil Republican Allegheny 1881
John E. Reyburn Republican Philadelphia 1883
Amos Herr Mylin Republican Lancaster 1883,85
George Handy Smith Republican Philadelphia 1885,87
John C. Grady Republican Philadelphia 1887,89
Boies Penrose Republican Philadelphia 1889,91
John P. S. Gobin Republican Lebanon 1891,93
Charles W. Thomas Republican Philadelphia 1893,95
Samuel John Milton McCarrell Republican Dauphin 1895,97
Daniel Spindler Walton Republican Greene 1897
William Preston Snyder Republican Chester 1899, 1901
John Morin Scott Republican Philadelphia 1901,03
William Cameron Sproul Republican Delaware 1903,05
Cyrus Woods Republican Westmoreland 1905,07
Albert Everton Sisson Republican Erie 1907,09
William E. Crow Republican Fayette 1911
George M. Wertz Republican Cambria 1911
Daniel P. Gerberich Republican Lebanon 1913
Charles H. Kline Republican Allegheny 1913,15
Edward E. Beidleman Republican Dauphin 1915,17
Clarence Jay Buckman Republican Bucks 1917,19
Frank E. Baldwin Republican Potter 1919,21
Thomas Lawrence Eyre Republican Chester 1921,23
John G. Homsher Republican Lancaster 1923,25
Samuel W. Salus Republican Philadelphia 1923,25
Horace W. Schantz Republican Lehigh 1927,29
Augustus F. Daix Jr. Republican Philadelphia 1929,31
James S. Boyd Republican Montgomery 1931,33
Harry B. Scott Republican Centre 1933
John G. Homsher Republican Lancaster 1935
Harvey D. Huffman Democratic Monroe 1937
John S. Rice Democratic Adams 1938
Frederick T. Gelder Republican Susquehanna 1939
Charles H. Ealy Republican Somerset 1941,43
M. Harvey Taylor Republican Dauphin 1945,47,49,51,53,55,57,59
Weldon Brinton Heyburn Republican Delaware 1947
Anthony J. DiSilvestro Democratic Philadelphia 1961
M. Harvey Taylor Republican Dauphin 1963
James S. Berger Republican Potter 1964 (acting), 1965
Stanley Stroup Republican Bedford 1966 (acting)
Robert D. Fleming Republican Allegheny 1967,69,70
Martin L. Murray Democratic Luzerne 1971,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80
Henry G. Hager Republican Lycoming 1981,82,83,84
Robert Jubelirer Republican Blair 1984,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92
Bob Mellow Democratic Lackawanna 1992,93,94
Robert Jubelirer Republican Blair 1994,95,96,97,97,99; 2000,01,02,03,04,05,06
Joe Scarnati Republican Jefferson 2006,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
Jake Corman Republican Centre 2020,21
Kim Ward Republican Westmoreland 2022,23,24,25,26

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The Constitutionalist Quids, or the "Old Republicans" where a faction within the Democratic-Republican Party who were strongly opposed to cooperation with Federalists
  2. ↑ The Improvement Democrats, or Pro-Improvement Democrats, where a faction in the early Democratic party that argued for a strong federal government to intervene in the American economy and support infrastructure construction

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Senate of Pennsylvania". Archived from the original on October 4, 2001. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §13 — When Lieutenant Governor to act as Governor". Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §14 — Vacancy in office of Lieutenant Governor". Pennsylvania General Assembly. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
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