Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1883 — Presidents of the Senate. [ARTICLE]

Presidents of the Senate.

The Vice President of the United States is President of the Senate when sitting in that body, but in his absence a President pro tempore is proposed and chosen by ballot. “His office is understood to be determined on the Vice President appearing and taking the chair, or at the meeting of the Senate after the first' recess.” (See Jefferson’s Manual.) The persons who have presided over the Senate are: Jolm -Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, George Clinton, William H. Crawford, Elbrige Gerry, John Gaillard, Daniel D. Tompkins, John C. Calhoun, Hugh L. White, Martin Van Buren, Richard M. Johnson, John Tyler, Samuel L. Southard, Willie P. Mangum, George M. Dallas, Millard Fillmore, William R. King, David R. Atkinson, Jesse D. Bright, John C. Breckenridge,Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Jolmson, Lafayette S. Foster, Benjamin Wade, Schuyler CdHenry Wilson, Thomas W. Ferry.

William A.Wheeler, Chester A. Arthur, David Davis, and the present incumbent, Geor'ge F. Edmunds. p'