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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.
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)
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