Find out who has been president of the Federal Senate since 1826 – 02/01/2023 – Politics

This Wednesday (1st), the 27 elected senators will take office and elect the next President of the House for the 2023-2024 biennium.

The last occupant of the position was Senator Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG). He succeeded Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), his political godfather in the dispute. Pacheco was also the candidate of then-President Jair Bolsonaro.

Since May 6, 1826, when it was installed at the time of the Empire, the Federal Senate has had 73 terms (counting interim terms) in the presidency of the House, which had its first headquarters in the Conde dos Arcos Palace, known as “Paço do Senado”. , in Rio de Janeiro

Guided by the Constitution of 1824, the first composition of the Senate had representatives of the nobility, the judiciary and the clergy. According to the Casa’s website, at first there were “50 senators, including 23 barons, viscounts or marquises; nine judges; seven members of the Catholic Church; four from the Army; in addition to two doctors, a lawyer and four landowners”.

One fact called attention: the princes of the Imperial House were entitled to a seat in the Senate as soon as they turned 25 years old. Thus, by this criterion, Princess Isabel became the first senator of Brazil.

In addition to the Conde dos Arcos Palace, the Senate had as its headquarters the Monroe Palace, in Rio de Janeiro, before the definitive move to Brasília.

Whoever served the most terms at the head of the Senate was José Sarney, on four occasions (1995-1997, 2003-2005, 2009-2011 and 2011-2013), and Renan Calheiros, also on four occasions (2005-2007, 2007, 2013- 2015 and 2015-2017), and in one of them (2007) he resigned from his post to avoid revocation of office for breach of decorum.

Senators have a vast number of vacancies available to house allied nominations, being able to employ them in positions of trust.

See the name of all the Presidents of the Senate since 1826:

senate presidents

Empire (1826-1889)

1826 – 1827 – José Egidio Álvares De Almeida

1827 – 1832 – D. José Caetano Da Silva Coutinho

1832 – 1836 – Bento Barroso Pereira

1837 – 1837 – Antonio Luiz Pereira da Cunha

1838 – 1838 – Manuel Jacinto Nogueira da Gama

1839 – 1840 – Diogo Antonio Feijó

1840 – 1841 – Francisco Vilela Barbosa

1841 – 1841 – Estevao Ribeiro de Rezende

1842 – 1843 – Jose da Costa Carvalho

1844 – 1847 – Joao Vieira de Carvalho

1847 – 1850 – Luiz Jose de Oliveira Mendes

1851 – 1853 – Candido Jose de Araujo Viana

1854 – 1861 – Manoel Inácio Cavalcanti de Lacerda

1861 – 1873 – Antonio Paulino Limpo de Abreu

1874 – 1881 – José Ildefonso de Souza Ramos

1881 – 1885 – Joao Maurício Wanderley

1885 – 1887 – Braz Carneiro Nogueira da Costa Gama

1887 – 1888 – João Lins Vieira Cansanção de Sinimbu

1888 – 1888 – Antonio Candido da Cruz Machado

1889 – 1889 – Paulino Jose Soares de Souza

Old Republic (1889 – 1930)

1891 – 1891 – Floriano Vieira Peixoto

1891 – 1894 – Prudente José de Moraes Barros

1895 – 1898 – Manoel Vitorino Pereira Marquis of Santo Amaro

1898 – 1902 – Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva

1902 – 1906 – Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena

1906 – 1909 – Nilo Procópio Peçanha

1910 – 1914 – Venceslau Bras Pereira Gomes

1914 – 1918 – Urbano Santos da Costa Araujo

1918 – 1920 – Delfim Moreira da Costa Ribeiro

1920 – 1922 – Francisco Alvaro Bueno de Paiva

1922 – 1926 – Estacio de Albuquerque Coimbra

1926 – 1930 – Fernando de Mello Viana

Post-1930

1935 – 1937 – Antonio Garcia de Medeiros Neto

1936 – 1936 – Waldomiro de Barros Magalhães

1946 – 1951 – Nereu de Oliveira Ramos

1951 – 1954 – Joao Fernandes Campos Café Filho

1951 – 1954 – Alexandre Marcondes Machado Filho

1956 – 1958 – Apolônio Jorge de Faria Salles

1956 – 1961 – Joao Belchior Marques Goulart

Post-1964

1961 – 1968 – Auro Soares de Moura Andrade

1968 – 1970 – Gilberto Marinho

1970 – 1971 – Joao Cleopas de Oliveira

1971 – 1973 – Petronio Portella Nunes

1973 – 1973 – Philinto Muller

1973 – 1975 – Paulo Francisco Torres

1975 – 1977 – José de Magalhães Pinto

1977 – 1979 – Petronio Portella Nunes

1979 – 1981 – Luiz Viana Filho

1981 – 1983 – Jarbas Gonçalves Passarinho

1983 – 1983 – Nilo de Souza Coelho

1983 – 1985 – Moacyr Dalla

New Republic
(from 1985)

1985 – 1987 – Jose Fragelli

1987 – 1989 – Humberto Lucena

1989 – 1991 – Nelson Carneiro

1991 – 1993 – Mauro Benevides

1993 – 1995 – Humberto Lucena

1995 – 1997 – Jose Sarney

1997 – 1999 – Antonio Carlos Magalhães

1999 – 2001 – Antonio Carlos Magalhães

2001 – 2001 – Jader Barbalho

2001 – 2001 – Edison Lobão

2001 – 2003 – Ramez Tebet

2003 – 2005 – Jose Sarney

2005 – 2007 – Renan Calheiros

2007 – 2007 – Renan Calheiros

2007 – 2007 – Tião Vianna

2007 – 2009 – Garibaldi Alves

2009 – 2011 – Jose Sarney

2011 – 2013 – Jose Sarney

2013 – 2015 – Renan Calheiros

2015 – 2017 – Renan Calheiros

2017 – 2019 – Eunício Oliveira

2019 – 2021 – Davi Alcolumbre

2021 – 2022 – Rodrigo Pacheco