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.
Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953. A Democrat,he served longer in both houses of Congress than anyone else in Tennessee history.
The University of Montevallo is a public university in Montevallo,Alabama. Founded on October 12,1896,the university is Alabama's only public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. The University of Montevallo Historic District was established on campus in 1979. The school is located in a rural location in central Alabama.
The University of Alabama School of Law,located in Tuscaloosa,Alabama is the only public law school in the state. It is one of five law schools in the state,and one of three that are ABA accredited. According to Alabama's official 2023 ABA-required disclosures,89.4% of the Class of 2023 obtained full-time,long-term,JD-required employment nine months after graduation. An additional 4.8% of the Class of 2023 obtained JD-advantage employment.
Miles Law School is a law school located in Birmingham,Alabama. It is independent of Miles College.
Albert Burton Boutwell was the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Democrat,Boutwell served Governor John Malcolm Patterson of the same political party,from 1959 until 1963. Earlier in his political career he served in the state senate,including as senate president,and later as mayor of Birmingham.
Ralph Gonzalez Recto is a Filipino politician currently serving as the 33rd Secretary of Finance under President Bongbong Marcos since January 12,2024. He previously served as the representative for Batangas' 6th district and as the House Deputy Speaker from 2022 to 2024.
Lowell Ray Barron is a former Democratic politician,businessman who was a member of the Alabama Senate,and represented the 8th District from 1982 to 2010. He was elected President Pro Tem of the Alabama Senate from 1999 to 2007,and after having serving seven terms in the state Senate,was defeated by 628 votes in the 2010 general election by Republican Shadrack McGill. Alabama's 8th Senate district includes all of Jackson County and parts of DeKalb and Madison Counties.
Hinton Mitchem was a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 9th District from 1979 to January 1987 and then again from June 1987 to January 2011.
Thomas Wayne Butler is a politician,and member of the Alabama Senate. He represents the 2nd District as a member of the Republican Party. Senate District 2 encompasses east Limestone County and western Madison County. It includes the cities of Athens,Huntsville and Madison.
Linda Foster Coleman-Madison is a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 20th District since 2006. Previously she was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2003 through 2006.
Ann H. Rest is an American politician and President pro tempore of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL),she represents District 43 which includes portions of the western suburbs of Hennepin County in the Twin Cities metro area.
Miriam Denise Witherspoon was a member of the Birmingham City Council,serving as president pro tempore. She advocated for the disabled,including better Americans with disabilities act compliance after being paralyzed in a 1988 car accident while she was in law school.
Carole Catlin Smitherman is an American politician and jurist,serving as a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. Smitherman served in 2009 as the 31st Mayor of Birmingham,Alabama and spent several years as a member of the City Council before resigning to assume her current judicial position.
Greg Reed is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 5th District between 2010 and 2024. He defeated Democrat Brett Wadsworth in the 2010 midterm elections to replace Charles Bishop in the 5th District. Senator Reed served as the Alabama State Senate's president pro tempore from 2021 until he stepped down in December of 2024 to join Governor Kay Ivey’s administration as Senior Advisor to Workforce Transformation.
Luther Johnson Strange III is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Alabama from 2017 to 2018. He was appointed to fill that position after it was vacated by Sen. Jeff Sessions upon Sessions's confirmation as U.S. Attorney General.
Rodger Allen Randle is a retired American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served twice as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and was a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1972 to 1988. He also served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1970-1972 and as mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma from 1988-1992.
The 2018 Alabama gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of Alabama. Incumbent Governor Kay Ivey (R),who took office on April 10,2017,upon the resignation of Robert Bentley (R) ran for election to a full term and won over Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox. Ivey was sworn in for her first full term on January 14,2019. This was the first time since 1966 that a woman was elected Governor of Alabama.
Roy Morris Blake Sr. was a Texas politician and businessman from Nacogdoches,Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from the 4th District. He also served in the Texas Senate from the 3rd district,and was president pro tempore of the Texas Senate in the Seventieth Texas Legislature.
The 2022 Alabama Senate elections took place on November 8,2022,as part of the 2022 United States elections. Alabama voters elected state senators in all 35 of the state's Senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Alabama Senate in Montgomery.
