president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate

{{Short description|Second-highest-ranking official of the Pennsylvania Senate}}

The President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate (also known more commonly as the "President pro-tem") is a constitutionally-created office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The incumbent holder of the office 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.{{cite news|title=Senate of Pennsylvania|url=http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/blue/senate.htm|access-date=November 12, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011004192948/http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/blue/senate.htm|archive-date=October 4, 2001|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=00&div=0&chpt=4&sctn=13&subsctn=0|title=The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §13 — When Lieutenant Governor to act as Governor.|work=Pennsylvania General Assembly|access-date=August 23, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=00&div=0&chpt=4&sctn=14&subsctn=0|title=The Constitution of Pennsylvania: Article IV §14 — Vacancy in office of Lieutenant Governor|work=Pennsylvania General Assembly|access-date=August 23, 2019}}

Duties

The President pro tempore presides over the Senate in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor and appoints committee chairpersons, 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.

List of speakers of the Pennsylvania Senate

class="wikitable"

Name

| Political party

| County

| Dates served

{{Party shading/Federalist}}

| Samuel Powell

| Delaware, Philadelphia County

| 1792–1793

{{Party shading/Federalist}}

| Anthony Morris

| Philadelphia County

| 1793–1794

{{Party shading/Federalist}}

| William Bingham

| Delaware, Philadelphia County

| 1794–1795

{{Party shading/Federalist}}

| Robert Hare Sr.

| Delaware, Philadelphia County

| 1795–1799

{{Party shading/Federalist}}

| Allegheny, Washington County

| 1799–1801

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Samuel Maclay

| Democratic Republican

| Northumberland County

| 1801–1802

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Democratic Republican

| Lancaster County

| 1802–1803

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Robert Whitehill

| Democratic Republican

| Cumberland County

| 1803–1805

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| James Young Brady

| Constitutionalist{{efn|The Constitutionalist Quids, or the "Old Republicans" where a faction within the Democratic Republican Party who were strongly opposed to cooperation with Federalists}}

| Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland County

| 1805–1806

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| John Francis Steele

| Democratic Republican

| Lancaster County

| 1805–1806

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Presely Carr Lane Sr.

| Democratic Republican

| Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland County

| 1806–1814

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Walter Lowrie

| Democratic Republican

| Allegheny, Beaver, Butler County

| 1813–1814

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Democratic Republican

| Bedford, Cambria, Somerset County

| 1814–1816

{{Party shading/Democratic Republican}}

| Isaac Weaver Jr.

| Democratic Republican

| Greene, Washington County

| 1817–1820

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Marks

| Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler County

| 1820–1825

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Philip Swenk Markley

| Montgomery County

| 1821–1822

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Thomas Burnside Sr.

| Centre, Clearfield, McKean, Potter, Tioga County

| 1825–1826

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Alexander Mahon Sr.

| Cumberland, Perry County

| 1825–1828

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William George Hawkins Sr.

| Fayette, Greene, Washington County

| 1831–1832

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Thomas Ringland

| Greene, Washington County

| 1833–1834

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Jesse Reading Burden

| Philadelphia County

| 1833–1834

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Thomas Scott Cunningham

| Crawford, Erie, Mercer County

| 1835–1836

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Jesse Reading Burden

| Philadelphia County

| 1837–1838

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Charles Bingham Penrose

| Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, Philadelphia County

| 1838–1839

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Tennet Rogers

| 1839

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Ebeneezer Kingsbury Jr.

| Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne County

| 1841

{{Party shading/Anti-Masonic}}

| Lancaster, York County

| 1841

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Charles Bingham Penrose

| Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry, Philadelphia County

| 1841

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| John Hoge Ewing

| Washington County

| 1842

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| William Hiester Jr.

| Lancaster, York County

| 1842

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Benjamin Crispin

| Philadelphia County

| 1843

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Bigler

| Armstrong, Camrbia, Clarion, Clearfield, Indiana County

| 1844–1845

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| John Benton Sterigere

| Chester, Delaware, Montgomery County

| 1845

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Pendleton Wilcox

| Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Venango, Warren County

| 1845

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Daniel Lee Sherwood Jr.

| Tioga, Bradford County

| 1846

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Charles L. Gibbons Sr.

| Philadelphia County

| 1847

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Sterling Ross

| Improvement Democrat{{efn|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}}

| Columbia, Luzerne County

| 1847

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| William Williamson Jr.

| Chester, Delaware County

| 1847

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| William Freame Johnston

| Chester, Cambria, Clearfield, Indiana County

| 1848

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| George Darsie

| Allegheny, Butler County

| 1848–1849

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Valentine Best

| Columbia, Luzerne County

| 1849

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Benjamin Matthias

| Philadelphia County

| 1851

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Christan Myers

| Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana County

| 1852

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| John Hoge Walker

| Crawford, Erie County

| 1852

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Thomas Erskin Carson

| Adams, Franklin County

| 1853

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| John Christian Kunkel

| Dauphin, Northumberland County

| 1853

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Byron Delano Hamlin

| Clearfield, Elk, Forest, McKean,Potter, Tioga County

| 1855

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Muhlenberg Hiester

| 1855

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William McKinney Piatt

| Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming County

| 1855–1856

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Nathaniel Borrodaille Browne

| Philadelphia County

| 1856

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| Darwin Abel Finney

| Crawford, Erie County

| 1857

{{Party shading/Whig}}

| David Taggart

| Dauphin, Northumberland County

| 1857

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| John M. Cresswell Jr.

| Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Huntingdon County

| 1858

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Henry Welsh

| 1858

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Fayette, Westmoreland County

| 1859

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William Miller Francis

| Lawrence, Mercer, Venango County

| 1860

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Robert Moffett Palmer

| Schuylkill County

| 1860–1861

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Louis Williams Hall Sr.

| Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry County

| 1861–1862

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George van Eman Lawrence

| Beaver, Greene, Washington County

| 1863

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John P. Penny Sr.

| Allegheny County

| 1863–1864

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Louis Williams Hall Sr.

| Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry County

| 1864

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William J. Turrell

| Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wyoming County

| 1865

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| David Fleming

| Dauphin, Lebanon County

| 1866

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Louis Williams Hall Sr.

| Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry County

| 1866–1867

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| James Leonard Graham

| Allegheny County

| 1868

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Wilmer Worthington

| Chester, Delaware, Montgomery County

| 1869

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Charles Henderson Stinson

| Chester, Delaware, Montgomery County

| 1869–1870

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Albert Gallatin Brodhead

| Carbon, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne County

| 1871

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| William Andrew Wallace

| Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk County

| 1871

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| James Smith Rutan

| Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington County

| 1872

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George Holmes Anderson

| Allegheny County

| 1873

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George H. Cutler

| Erie, Warren County

| 1874

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Butler B. Strang

| Cameron, McKean, Potter, Tioga County

| 1874

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Henry Lloyd White

| Armstorong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland County

| 1874

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Elisha W. Davis

| Philadelphia County

| 1875–1876

List of presidents pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate

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Name

| Political party

| County

| Dates elected

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George H. Cutler

| 1875

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Elisha W. Davis

| Philadelphia County

| 1875,76

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John Christopher Newmyer

| Allegheny County

| 1876,77

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Thomas Valentine Cooper

| Delaware County

| 1877,78

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Andrew Jackson Herr

| Dauphin County

| 1878,79

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Philadelphia County

| 1879

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William Imlay Newell

| Philadelphia County

| 1881

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Allegheny County

| 1881

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John Edgar Reyburn

| Philadelphia County

| 1883

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Amos Herr Mylin

| Lancaster County

| 1883,85

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George Handy Smith

| Philadelphia County

| 1885,87

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John C. Grady

| Philadelphia County

| 1887,89

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Boies Penrose

| Philadelphia County

| 1889,91

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John Peter Shindel Gobin

| Lebanon County

| 1891,93

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Charles Wesley Thomas

| Philadelphia County

| 1893,95

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Samuel John Milton McCarrell

| Dauphin County

| 1895,97

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Daniel Spindler Walton

| Greene County

| 1897

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William Preston Snyder

| Chester County

| 1899, 1901

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John Morin Scott

| Philadelphia County

| 1901,03

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William Cameron Sproul

| Delaware County

| 1903,05

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Cyrus E. Woods

| Westmoreland County

| 1905,07

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Albert Everton Sisson

| 1907,09

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| William E. Crow

| Fayette County

| 1911

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| George M. Wertz

| Cambria County

| 1911

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Daniel P. Gerberich

| Lebanon County

| 1913

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Charles H. Kline

| Allegheny County

| 1913,15

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Edward E. Beidleman

| Dauphin County

| 1915,17

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Clarence Jay Buckman

| 1917,19

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Frank E. Baldwin

| Potter County

| 1919,21

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Thomas Lawrence Eyre

| Chester County

| 1921,23

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John G. Homsher

| Lancaster County

| 1923,25

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Samuel W. Salus

| Philadelphia County

| 1923,25

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Horace W. Schantz

| Lehigh County

| 1927,29

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Augustus F. Daix Jr.

| Philadelphia County

| 1929,31

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| James S. Boyd

| Montgomery County

| 1931,33

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Harry B. Scott

| Centre County

| 1933

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| John G. Homsher

| Lancaster County

| 1935

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Harvey D. Huffman

| Monroe County

| 1937

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| 1938

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Frederick T. Gelder

| Susquehanna County

| 1939

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Charles H. Ealy

| Somerset County

| 1941,43

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| M. Harvey Taylor

| Dauphin County

| 1945,47,49,51,53,55,57,59

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Weldon Brinton Heyburn

| Delaware County

| 1947

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Anthony J. DiSilvestro

| Philadelphia County

| 1961

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| M. Harvey Taylor

| Dauphin County

| 1963

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| James S. Berger

| Potter County

| 1964 (acting), 1965

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Stanley G. Stroup

| Bedford County

| 1966 (acting)

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Robert D. Fleming

| Allegheny County

| 1967,69,70

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Martin L. Murray

| Luzerne County

| 1971,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Henry G. Hager III

| Lycoming County

| 1981,82,83,84

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Robert C. Jubelirer

| 1984,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92

{{Party shading/Democratic}}

| Robert J. Mellow

| Lackawanna County

| 1992,93,94

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Robert C. Jubelirer

| 1994,95,96,97,97,99; 2000,01,02,03,04,05,06

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Joseph B. Scarnati III

| Jefferson County

| 2006,07,08,09,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Jacob Doyle Corman III

| Centre County

| 2020,21

{{Party shading/Republican}}

| Westmoreland County

| 2022, 23

See also

Notes

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References

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External links

[https://www.pasen.gov/index.cfm Pennsylvania Senate website]

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