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Senate Presidents Pro Tempore **
Ebenezer N. Briggs, 1836
Horace Eaton, 1841
Ebenezer N. Briggs, 1843
James Barrett, 1845
George T. Hodges, 1846-1847
John Kimball, 1848
Oliver P. Chandler, 1849
Asa Wentworth Jr., 1851
Edward Seymour, 1852
Bliss N. Davis, 1859
George Wilkins, 1860
Frederick E. Woodbridge, 1861
Thomas E. Powers, 1861
Henry E. Stoughton, 1863
Leverett B. Englesby, 1864
Worthington C. Smith, 1865
Seneca M. Dorr, 1865-1866
George W. Hendee, 1867-1868
George N. Dale, 1869
Charles H. Heath, 1870
Lyman G. Hinckley, 1872
Redfield Proctor, 1874
William W. Grout, 1876
Loveland Munson, 1878
Philip K. Gleed, 1880
Justus Dartt, 1882
Laforrest H. Thompson, 1884
Henry C. Bates, 1886-1888
Frank A. Dwinell, 1890
Alfred A. Hall, 1892
George M. Powers, 1894
Ashbel A. Dean, 1896
John G. McCullough, 1898
Frederick W. Baldwin, 1900
Chauncey W. Brownell, 1902
George H. Prouty, 1904
William J. Van Patten, 1906
Ernest W. Gibson, 1908
Max L. Powell, 1910
Frederick H. Babbitt, 1912
Max L. Powell, 1915
William H. Fairchild, 1917
Martin S. Vilas, 1919
Harvey R. Kingsley, 1921
Walter K. Farnsworth, 1923
Edward H. Edgerton, 1925
Levi P. Smith, 1927-1929
William H. Wills, 1931
Charles B. Adams, 1933
William H. Wills, 1935
Ernest W. Dunklee, 1937
Mortimer R. Proctor, 1939
Joseph H. Denny, 1941
Lee E. Emerson, 1943
John A. M. Hinsman, 1945
Carroll L. Coburn, 1947
Asa S. Bloomer, 1949
Merrill W. Harris, 1951
Carleton G. Howe, 1953
Asa S. Bloomer, 1955
Robert S. Babcock, 1957
Asa S. Bloomer, 1959-1963
John H. Boylan, 1963-1965
George W. F. Cook, 1965-1969
Edward G. Janeway, 1969-1975
Robert A. Bloomer, 1975-1985
Peter Welch, 1985-1989
Douglas Racine, 1989-1993
John Bloomer, 1993-1995
Stephen W. Webster, 1995-1997
Peter Shumlin, 1997-2003
Peter F. Welch, 2003-2007
Peter Shumlin, 2007-2011
John Campbell, 2011-

** Presidents pro tempore preside over the senate in the absence of the lieutenant governor. There were no formal rules for the election of presidents pro tempore until 1884. In the early years of the senate a president pro tem might only be elected as needed, with more than one senator serving as president during a session.

 

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