# List of presidents pro tempore of the North Dakota Senate

The following is a list of presidents pro tempore of the North Dakota Senate, a position that was created with the state's constitution in 1889. The term indicated is the year of the legislative session in which the individual served as president pro tempore.
| # | Name | Term | Party | District |
| 1 | David S. Dodds | 1889 | Republican | 17 |
| 2 | Nahum B. Pinkham | 1891 | Republican | 10 |
| 3 | John H. Worst | 1893 | Republican | 26 |
| 4 | John E. Haggart | 1895 | Republican | 9 |
| 5 | Clarence B. Little | 1897 | Republican | 27 |
| 6 | Alex C. McGillivray | 1899 | Republican | 31 |
| 7 | Judson LaMoure | 1901 | Republican | 1 |
| 8 | James B. Sharpe | 1903 | Republican | 24 |
| 9 | Frank S. Talcott | 1905 | Republican | 11 |
| 10 | John A. Regan | 1907 | Republican | 33 |
| 11 | Leslie A. Simpson | 1909 | Republican | 31 |
| 12 | Charles W. Plain | 1911 | Republican | 40 |
| 13 | Erland F. Gilbert | 1913 | Republican | 10 |
| 14 | Alfred Steele | 1915 | Republican | 23 |
| 15 | Henry McLean | 1917 | Republican | 18 |
| 16 | Richard McCarten | 1919 | Republican | 13 |
| 17 | Eric A. Bowman | 1921 | Republican | 24 |
| 18 | Frank E. Ployhar | 1923 | Republican | 15 |
| 19 | P. J. Murphy | 1925 | Republican | 4 |
| 20 | Walter Bond | 1927 | Republican | 29 |
| 21 | Ole H. Olson | 1929 | Republican | 32 |
| 22 | William H. Porter | 1931 | Republican | 18 |
| 23 | David H. Hamilton | 1933 | Republican | 34 |
| 24 | Albert S. Marshall | 1935 | Republican | 25 |
| 25 | Gust Wog | 1937 | Republican | 39 |
| 26 | William Watt | 1939 | Republican | 11 |
| 27 | Milton R. Young | 1941 | Republican-IVA | 24 |
| 28 | Clarence N. Brunsdale | 1943 | Republican-IVA | 8 |
| 29 | Everett H. Brant | 1945 | Republican | 26 |
| 30 | Jonathan L. Flatt | 1947 | Republican | 14 |
| 31 | Joseph B. Bridston | 1949 | Republican | 7 |
| 32 | Milton Rue | 1951 | Republican | 27 |
| 33 | Reinhold M. Streibel | 1953 | Republican-NPL | 33 |
| 34 | Oliver E. Bilden | 1955 | Republican-NPL | 5 |
| 35 | Emil Torno | 1957 | Republican | 34 |
| 36 | Amos Freed | 1959 | Republican | 31 |
| 37 | Arthur W. Luick | 1961 | Republican | 12 |
| 38 | Roland E. Meidinger | 1963 | Republican | 23 |
| 39 | George Saumur | 1965 | Republican | 6 |
| 40 | George Longmire | 1967 | Republican | 18 |
| 41 | Leland Roen | 1969 | Republican | 39 |
| 42 | Evan E. Lips | 1971 | Republican | 32 |
| 43 | Elton W. Ringsak | 1973 | Republican | 16 |
| 44 | Robert Melland | 1975 | Republican | 29 |
| 45 | Howard A. Freed | 1977 | Republican | 37 |
| 46 | Theron Strinden | 1979 | Republican | 24 |
| 47 | Stanley A. Wright | 1981 | Republican | 4 |
| 48 | Russell T. Thane | 1983 | Republican | 25 |
| 49 | Chester Reiten | 1985 | Republican | 40 |
| 50 | Rolland W. Redlin | 1987 | Democrat-NPL | 40 |
| 51 | Herschel Lashkowitz | 1989 | Democrat-NPL | 21 |
| 52 | Bonnie L. Heinrich | 1991 | Democrat-NPL | 32 |
| 53 | Corliss Mushik | 1993 | Democrat-NPL | 34 |
| 54 | Bryce S. Streibel | 1995 | Republican | 14 |
| 55 | Raymon F. Holmberg | 1997 | Republican | 17 |
| 56 | Layton Freborg | 1999 | Republican | 8 |
| 57 | Karen K. Krebsbach | 2001 | Republican | 40 |
| 58 | Herb Urlacher | 2003 | Republican | 36 |
| 59 | John Andrist | 2005 | Republican | 2 |
| 60 | Judy Lee | 2007 | Republican | 13 |
| 61 | Jerry Klein | 2009 | Republican | 14 |
| 62 | Rich Wardner | 2011 | Republican | 37 |
| 63 | Ralph Kilzer | 2011-2013 | Republican | 47 |
| 64 | Terry Wanzek | 2013 | Republican | 29 |
| 65 | Tim Flakoll | 2013-2015 | Republican | 44 |
| 66 | Dick Dever | 2015-2017 | Republican | 32 |
| 67 | Gary Lee | 2017-2019 | Republican | 22 |
| 68 | David Hogue | 2019-2019 | Republican | 38 |
| 69 | Oley Larsen | 2019-2020 | Republican | 3 |
| 70 | Randy Burckhard | 2021-2021 | Republican | 5 |
| 71 | Larry Luick | 2021-2022 | Republican | 25 |
| 72 | Donald Schaible | 2023-2024 | Republican | 31 |
| 73 | Brad Bekkedahl | 2025-present | Republican | 1 |