President of the Arkansas Senate
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.
Republicans went more than a century without a president pro yempore in the Arkansas Senate.
Presidents of the Arkansas Senate
- Sam C. Roane / S. C. Roane 1837–1838 served as president of the Second Territorial Legislature's Council October 1 - October 24 1821 in Little Rock. He also served as a judge in Jefferson County.
- Mark W. Izard
- Mark W. Izard
- Samuel Adams
- John Williamson
- William K. Sebastian
- R. C. Byrd
- John R. Hampton
- Thomas B. Hanly
- B. C. Hanley
- J. R. Hampton
- Thomas Fletcher
- Thomas Fletcher
- Thomas Fletcher and then J. R. Hampton when Fletcher took over as governor after H. M. Rector resigned
- Thomas Fletcher, Confederate General Assembly in Washington D.C.
- C. C. Bliss
- Andrew Hunter
- J. M. Johnson and special session
- J. M. Johnson
- V. V. Smith and extraordinary session
- Bradley Bunch and
- James K. Jones
- Matthew McClintock Duffie
- H. C. Tipton
- J. B. Judkins
- R. B. Weaver
- D. E. Barker
- W. S. Hanna
- James P. Clarke
- E. B. Kinsworthy
- Gibson Witt
- William L. Moose and special session
- M. J. Manning
- Robert J. Wilson
- Joseph L. Short
- Alonzo W. Covington
- John I Moore
- Jesse M. Martin
- Kemp Toney
- J. M. Futrell
- L. B. Kendall
- John Moncrief
- Ben E. McFarrin
- G. Otis Bogle
- R. K. Mason
- S. B. McCall
- Freed Hutto
- Claude A. Rankin
- Ned A. Stewart
- William F. Norrell
- F. S. Armstrong
- Roy Milum
- W. B. Smith
- General Washington Lookadoo
- L. T. Barnett
- Clyde E. Byrd
- James Orville Cheney
- Ellis M. Fagan
- Russell Elrod
- Lawrence Blackwell
- J. Lee Bearden
- Roy L. Riales Sr.
- George Clifton Wade
- Max Howell
- Fred H. Stafford
- Q. Byrum Hurst Sr.
- Morrell Gathright
- Olen Hendrix
- Clarence E. Bell
- Robert Harvey
- W. K. "Bill" Ingram
- Knox Nelson
- Ben Allen
- W. D. Moore
- John Bearden
- Paul Benham Jr.
- Nick Wilson
- Bud Canada
- Jerry Bookout
- Jerry D. Jewell
- Stanley Russ
- Wayne Dowd
- Jay Bradford
- Mike Beebe
- Jim Hill
- Jim Argue
- Jack Critcher
- Bob Johnson
- Paul Bookout
- Michael Lamoureux
- Jonathan Dismang
- Jim Hendren
- Jimmy Hickey Jr.
- Bart Hester