List of presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate

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.

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 J. 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)

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.