President of the Arkansas Senate
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The President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate is the state senator in the Arkansas Senate elected by their fellow senators as the body's leader. They preside over the senate and lead negotiations with the Arkansas House of Representatives. Presidents of the Arkansas Senate typically serve for one term.[1]
Republicans went more than a century without a President Pro Tempore in the Arkansas Senate.[2]
Presidents of the Arkansas Senate
[edit | edit source]- Sam C. Roane / S. C. Roane 1837–1838[3][4] served as president of the Second Territorial Legislature's Council October 1 - October 24 1821 in Little Rock. He also served as a judge in Jefferson County.[3]
- Mark W. Izard (1838)
- Mark W. Izard (1840)
- Samuel Adams (1842–1843)
- John Williamson (1844–1845)
- William K. Sebastian (1846)
- R. C. Byrd (1848–1849)
- John R. Hampton (1850–1851)
- Thomas B. Hanly (November 1, 1852 – January 12, 1853)
- B. C. Hanley (November 6, 1854 – January 22, 1855)
- J. R. Hampton (November 3, 1856 – January 15, 1857)
- Thomas Fletcher (November 1, 1858 – February 21, 1859)
- Thomas Fletcher (November 5, 1860 – January 21, 1861)
- Thomas Fletcher and then J. R. Hampton when Fletcher took over as governor after H. M. Rector resigned (November 5, 1862 – December 1, 1862)
- Thomas Fletcher, Confederate General Assembly in Washington D.C. (September 22, 1864 – October 2, 1864)
- C. C. Bliss (April 11, 1864 – June 2, 1864; special sessions November 7, 1864 – January 2, 1865 and April 3, 1865 – April 22, 1865)
- Andrew Hunter (November 5, 1866 – March 23, 1867)
- J. M. Johnson (April 2, 1868 – July 23, 1868) and special session (November 17, 1868 - April 10, 1869)
- J. M. Johnson (January 2, 1871 – March 25, 1871)
- V. V. Smith (January 6, 1873 – April 25, 1873) and extraordinary session (May 11, 1874 – May 28, 1874)
- Bradley Bunch (November 10, 1874 – March 5, 1875) and (November 1, 1875 - December 10, 1875)
- James K. Jones (January 8, 1877 – March 8, 1877)
- Matthew McClintock Duffie (January 13, 1879 – March 13, 1879)
- H. C. Tipton (January 8, 1881 – March 19, 1881)
- J. B. Judkins (January 8, 1883 – March 28, 1883)
- R. B. Weaver (January 12, 1885 – March 18, 1885)
- D. E. Barker (January 10, 1887 – March 31, 1887)
- W. S. Hanna (January 10, 1889 – March 31, 1889)
- James P. Clarke (January 12, 1891 – April 3, 1891)
- E. B. Kinsworthy (January 9, 1893 – April 8, 1893)
- Gibson Witt (January 14, 1895 – April 10, 1895)
- William L. Moose (January 11, 1897 – March 11, 1897) and special session (April 26, 1897 - June 16, 1897)
- M. J. Manning[5] (January 9, 1899 - April 19, 1899)
- Robert J. Wilson (January 14, 1901 – May 4, 1901)
- Joseph L. Short (January 12, 1903 – April 30, 1903)
- Alonzo W. Covington (January 9, 1905 – May 4, 1905)
- John I Moore (January 14, 1907 – May 14, 1907)
- Jesse M. Martin (January 11, 1909 – May 12, 1909)
- Kemp Toney (1911)[6] (also served as a Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives)
- J. M. Futrell (1913)
- L. B. Kendall (1915)
- John Moncrief (1917)
- Ben E. McFarrin (1919)
- G. Otis Bogle (1921)
- R. K. Mason (1923)
- S. B. McCall (1925)
- Freed Hutto (1927)
- Claude A. Rankin (1929)[7]
- Ned A. Stewart (1931)
- William F. Norrell (1933, 1935)
- F. S. Armstrong (1937)
- Roy Milum (1939)
- W. B. Smith (1941)
- General Washington Lookadoo (1943)[8]
- L. T. Barnett (1945)
- Clyde E. Byrd (1947)
- James Orville Cheney (1949)
- Ellis M. Fagan (1951)
- Russell Elrod (1953)
- Lawrence Blackwell (1955)
- J. Lee Bearden (1957)
- Roy L. Riales Sr. (1959)
- George Clifton Wade (1961)
- Max Howell (1963)
- Fred H. Stafford (1965)
- Q. Byrum Hurst Sr. (1967)
- Morrell Gathright (1969–1970)
- Olen Hendrix (1971)
- Clarence E. Bell (1973)
- Robert Harvey (1975)
- W. K. "Bill" Ingram (1977)
- Knox Nelson (1979)
- Ben Allen (1981)
- W. D. Moore (1983)
- John Bearden (1985)
- Paul Benham Jr. (1986)
- Nick Wilson (1987)
- Bud Canada (1989)
- Jerry Bookout (1991)
- Jerry D. Jewell (1993)
- Stanley Russ (1995)
- Wayne Dowd (1997)
- Jay Bradford (1999–2000)
- Mike Beebe (2001)
- Jim Hill (2003)
- Jim Argue (2005)
- Jack Critcher (2007)
- Bob Johnson (2009)
- Paul Bookout (2011)
- Michael Lamoureux (2013–2014)
- Jonathan Dismang (2015–2018)
- Jim Hendren (2019–2020)[9]
- Jimmy Hickey Jr. (2021)
- Bart Hester (2023)[10]
See also
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