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.[1]

Republicans went more than a century without a President Pro Tempore in the Arkansas Senate.[2]

Presidents of the Arkansas Senate

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Arkansas Senate Pro Tempores".
  2. ^ "Reflecting on bi-partisanship in Arkansas politics". The Des Moines Register.
  3. ^ a b Arkansas (1903). "Reports of State Officers".
  4. ^ https://ssl-sos-site.ark.org/uploads/elections/historical_report1210.pdf
  5. ^ "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas: Comprising a Condensed History of the State, a Number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of the Same, a Brief Descriptive History of Each of the Counties". 1890.
  6. ^ Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (1999). American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313302138.
  7. ^ "Rankin 1". The Courier News. 7 August 1942. p. 13.
  8. ^ Ohio Legislative History: 1909-1912. F.J. Heer Printing. 1912.
  9. ^ "Arkansas Senate".
  10. ^ "Arkansas Senate elects Hester as president pro tempore; Shepherd elected House speaker for 3rd time | Arkansas Democrat Gazette". 9 January 2023.