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 Tomas E. Powers 1861 henry E. Stoughton 1863 Leverett B. Englesby 1864 Worthington C. Smith 1865 Seneca M. Dorr 1865 Seneca M. Dorr 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 Page 2 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 1959-1965 George W. F. Cook 1965-1969 Edward G. Janeway 1969-1975 Robert A. Bloomer** 1975-