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Lawrence Blackwell (died February 23, 1987) was an American politician from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, who served in the Arkansas Senate from 1947 to 1955. [1] He was president pro tempore of the Arkansas Senate in 1955. [2] Blackwell helped legislate oversight of the Arkansas Highway Commission. [3] [4]
The president pro tempore of the United States Senate is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate, after the vice president. According to Article One, Section Three of the United States Constitution, the vice president of the United States is the president of the Senate, and the Senate must choose a president pro tempore to act in the vice president's absence.
The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which the vice president of the United States and other officers of the United States federal government assume the powers and duties of the U.S. presidency upon an elected president's death, resignation, removal from office, or incapacity.
Mickey Dale Beebe is an American politician and attorney who served as the 45th governor of Arkansas from 2007 to 2015. He is to date the last Democrat to hold that office.
Robert Humphreys was briefly a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.
The Arkansas State Senate is the upper branch of the Arkansas General Assembly. The Senate consists of 35 members, each representing a district with about 83,000 people. Service in the state legislature is part-time, and many state senators have full-time jobs during the rest of the year. During the current term, the Senate contains twenty-nine Republicans and six Democrats.
The 3rd Congress of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives, met from January 25, 1954, until December 10, 1957, during the 39-month presidency of Ramon Magsaysay and the first nine months of Carlos P. García's presidency.
The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate is the highest-ranking officer of one house of the North Carolina General Assembly. The president of the Senate is the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, but the president pro tempore actually holds most of the power and presides in the absence of the Lt. Governor. The president pro tempore, a senior member of the party with a majority of seats, appoints senators to committees and also appoints certain members of state boards and commissions. From 1777 to 1868, North Carolina had no Lieutenant Governor, and the highest-ranking officer of the Senate was known as the "Speaker". The Speaker of the Senate was next in line if the office of Governor became vacant. This occurred on two occasions.
The lieutenant governor of Arkansas presides over the Senate of the U.S. state of Arkansas with a tie-breaking vote, serves as acting governor of Arkansas when the governor is out of state and assumes the governorship in cases of impeachment, removal from office, death or inability to discharge the office's duties. The position is elected separately from the Arkansas Governor.
The Democratic Party of Arkansas is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Arkansas. The current party chair is Grant Tennille. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was born in Arkansas, and served as state governor from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992.
The Republican Party of Arkansas (RPA), headquartered at 1201 West 6th Street in downtown Little Rock, is the affiliate of the Republican Party in Arkansas. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all four of Arkansas' U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, all statewide executive offices, including the governorship, and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Arkansas:
Jonathan D. Barnett is a businessman and Republican politician from Siloam Springs, Arkansas, who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2009 until he was term-limited in 2015. Barnett represented District 97 from 2009 to 2013, and served as the House Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore. Following redistricting, Barnett represented District 87 for his last term from 2013 to 2015. Barnett also served on the Arkansas State Highway Commission from 1999 to 2009. Barnett is the owner of Jonathan Barnett Enterprises, Inc., a general contracting and real estate company.
Jonathan Dismang is a Republican member of the Arkansas Senate. A resident of Beebe in White County near Little Rock, he has served in the Arkansas General Assembly since 2011. Dismang served as President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate in the 90th Arkansas General Assembly and 91st Arkansas General Assembly.
Paul Jerry Bookout is an American politician who served as the President pro tempore of the Arkansas Senate from 2011 to 2013, when he resigned from office. A member of the Democratic Party, Bookout served as an Arkansas Representative from 1999 until 2004 and as an Arkansas Senator from 2006 to 2013. Bookout was convicted of wire fraud in 2014.
Milton Jimmy Hickey Jr. is an American businessman in construction and property management as well as a state senator in Arkansas. He serves in the Arkansas Senate. He has served in the state senate since 2013. He lives in Texarkana. He worked as a banker.
Bart Franklin Hester is an American politician serving as a member of the Arkansas Senate from the 33rd district and a Republican. A real estate agent and former baseball player, has served since 2013, and was nominated president pro tempore of the Senate for the 94th Arkansas General Assembly.
The President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate is the state senator in the Arkansas Senate elected by their fellow senators as the body's leader. They preside over the senate and lead negotiations with the Arkansas House of Representatives. Presidents of the Arkansas Senate typically serve for one term.
Russell Elrod was a lawyer and long-serving state legislator in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas Senate including as President Pro Tempore of the Arkansas Senate in 1953.
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