List of presidents pro tempore of the Nebraska Senate

This article is about the leader of the defunct upper house of the old Nebraska bicameral legislature. For the leader of the current Nebraska unicameral legislature, which is sometimes still referred to as the "Nebraska Senate", see List of speakers of the Nebraska Legislature.

The president pro tempore of the Nebraska Senate (previously the president of the Nebraska Territorial Council and the president of the Nebraska Senate) was an office in the Nebraska Legislature which existed from 1855 to 1936 when Nebraska had a bicameral legislature. This office was created when the Nebraska Territory was first established and remained after Nebraska became a state.[1] Under the Nebraska Constitution of 1866, this office was referred to as the president of the Senate since Nebraska had no office of lieutenant governor,[2] but after the constitution of 1875 was adopted, which provided for a lieutenant governor who was to be the president of the Senate,[3] this office became known as the president pro tempore (or "temporary president") of the Nebraska Senate.[4] When Nebraska voters adopted a unicameral legislature beginning in 1937, this office ceased to exist and was replaced by a single speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.

  1. ^ State of Nebraska (2023). Nebraska Blue Book 2022-23. p. 394.
  2. ^ "Nebraska Constitution of 1866, Article III, Section 17".
  3. ^ "Constitution of the State of Nebraska, Article V, Section 17". The Nebraska Blue Book and Historical Register 1915 (PDF). p. 168.
  4. ^ "Constitution of the State of Nebraska, Article III, Section 7". The Nebraska Blue Book and Historical Register 1915 (PDF). p. 163.