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unusual facts about President of the Senate


Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus

The Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus is an informal legislative organization created in 2007 by leaders of the Senates of the U.S. states of Alaska and Hawai'i and the United States territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas Islands.


1996 Parliament House Riot

According to then President of the Senate, Margaret Reid, the initially peaceful protest deteriorated into violent action when a new group of demonstrators arrived in the early afternoon and, joined by people from the main protest, attacked the entrance to Parliament.

2007–11 Belgian political crisis

Danny Pieters (President of the Senate; N-VA) and André Flahaut (President of the Chamber of Representatives; PS) as mediators: 4 September 2010 – 5 October 2010

Government of Puerto Rico

The chambers are presided over by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, respectively.

Hans Koschnick

He was the President of the Senate and Mayor of the German city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1967 to 1985 and afterwards served as a member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, from 1987 to 1998.

John Hubert Hall

On October 28, 1947, Governor Earl Snell was killed in a plane crash along with the next in line of succession, President of the Senate Marshall E. Cornett.

Justin O'Byrne

Justin Hilary O'Byrne, AO (1 June 1912 – 10 November 1993) was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician who represented Tasmania in the Federal Senate from 1947 to 1981, acting as President of the Senate from 1974 to 1975.

Marais Viljoen

Viljoen was elected to the House of Assembly as MP for Alberton, near Johannesburg, as President of the Senate, and as acting State President from 21 August 1978 to 10 October 1978, after which B.J. Vorster was briefly elected to the position.

Politics of Colorado

The Senate is currently composed of 18 Democrats and 17 Republicans, and is led by President of the Senate, Morgan Carroll, Majority Leader Rollie Heath, and Minority Leader Bill Cadman.

Standing Rules of the United States Senate, Rule XIV

When signed by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall present the item.


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2nd Oklahoma Legislature

Lieutenant Governor George W. Bellamy continued to serve as the first President of the Senate, which gave him a tie-breaking vote and allowed him to serve as a presiding officer.

3rd Oklahoma Legislature

Lieutenant Governor J. J. McAlester served as the President of the Senate, which gave him a tie-breaking vote and allowed him to serve as a presiding officer.

Bordei Park

Along with the founder of the law Marius Marinescu, signed as co-founders, senators Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, Nicolae Văcăroiu, former prime-minister of Romania and at the time president of the Senate.

Constitutional Council of France

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc, appointed by the president of the Senate in February 2007

Current members of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly

The latest President of the Senate, elected on 19 January 2010 and serving until her death on 26 October of that year, was Ana María Romero de Campero (MAS-IPSP, La Paz).

Czech presidential election, 2013

The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) held a primary elections in July 2012 to choose their candidate, selecting former President of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka over MEP Evžen Tošenovský.

Gérard Larcher

Following the September 2008 Senate elections, Larcher was endorsed for the position of President of the Senate by the majority UMP Parliamentary Group after a contest against former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.

Gibson Sibanda

He stood as a candidate for the post of President of the Senate on August 25, 2008, and he was backed by both MDC factions, but was defeated by ZANU-PF candidate Edna Madzongwe, receiving 28 votes against 58 votes for Madzongwe.

Ifill

Kerryann Ifill, 2012 nominated President of the Senate of Barbados.

Jean Ferré

He also built a friendship with the first president of the senate of democratic Spain, Antonio Fontán.

María Rostworowski

Her grandfather, Agustín Tovar, was president of the Senate and her uncle Karol Hubert Rostworowski, playwright.

Mulla Effendi

Highest-ranking members of the government and others such as Deputy Chief of Royal Protocol on behalf of Regent Abd al-Ilah, the Iraqi Premier then Nuri as-Said, the British Ambassador to Iraq in Baghdad Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the President of the Senate Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr, Mutasarrif of Mosul Abdul-Majeed al-Yaqubi, Jamil al-Midfai (served five times as Prime Minister of Iraq), Dawud al-Haidary (well-known Iraqi statesman), paid tribute to his family.

Noosa Christian College

During the 2011 year, the Hon John Hogg, Senator for Queensland and President of the Senate, Australian Government, officially opened a new A$2,000,000 Library funded entirely by the Australian Government Building Education Revolution (BER) Scheme.

Others look into the Dreyfus Affair

A few days later chance brought him in contact with one of the few statesmen who had shown any sympathy with the researches of Matthew Dreyfus – the Alsatian Scheurer-Kestner, former member of the Chamber of Deputies for Alsace and coworker with Gambetta, and now vice-president of the Senate and one of the most justly esteemed men of the Republican party.

Peter Mafany Musonge

There was some speculation that he might receive the post of President of the Senate, but Marcel Niat Njifenji was elected to that post on 12 June 2013.

Rafael Martinez

Rafael Martínez Nadal (1877–1941), third president of the Senate of Puerto Rico

Rajemison Rakotomaharo

Rakotomaharo was subsequently appointed as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva, and he was accordingly replaced as First Vice-President of the Senate by Noël Rakotondramboa on July 2, 2008.

Yvan Randriasandratriniony was subsequently elected to succeed Rakotomaharo as President of the Senate on May 6, 2008.

Ranglin

George Samuel Ranglin, President of the Senate of Jamaica from 1962 to 1972

Renaud Denoix de Saint Marc

On 22 February 2007, he was appointed member of the Constitutional Council of France by president of the Senate Christian Poncelet.