List of Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate
Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate

List of Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate

Section Title: Presidents pro tempore of the Texas Senate
Table Section Text: None

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

Troy Fraser	Republican	81st

Steve Ogden	Republican	82nd

Mike Jackson	Republican	82nd

Leticia Van de Putte	Democrat	83rd

Craig Estes	Republican	83rd

Juan Hinojosa	Democrat	84th

Kevin Eltife	Republican	84th

Kel Seliger	Republican	85th

Robert Nichols	Republican	85th

Kirk Watson	Democrat	86th

Sentence(s)

Kirk Watson of Democrat served as President Pro Tempore in the 86th Legislature.

final_sentence: Kirk Watson of Democrat served as President Pro Tempore in the 86th Legislature.