The Vice President of the United States is designated by the Constitution as, ex officio, President of the United States Senate. However, during a vacancy in the office (such as that caused by death or resignation), the President pro tempore of the United States Senate serves as the permanent President of the Senate. Until the ratification of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, there was no mechanism to replace a Vice President until the next presidential election.

This list includes individuals (both Vice Presidents and Presidents pro tempore) who served as a Presiding Officer of the Senate (not including senators who presided over sessions temporarily in the place of the sitting President).

President	Term	Position
John Adams	1789–1797	Vice President
Thomas Jefferson	1797–1801	Vice President
Aaron Burr	1801–1805	Vice President
George Clinton	1805–1812	Vice President, Died
William H. Crawford	1812–1813	Pro tempore
Elbridge Gerry	1813–1814	Vice President, Died
John Gaillard	1814–1817	Pro tempore
Daniel Tompkins	1817–1825	Vice President
John Calhoun	1825–1832	Vice President, Resigned
Hugh Lawson White	1832–1833	Pro tempore
Martin Van Buren	1833–1837	Vice President
Richard Mentor Johnson	1837–1841	Vice President
John Tyler	1841	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Samuel Lewis Southard	1841–1842	Pro tempore
Willie Mangum	1842–1845	Pro tempore
George M. Dallas	1845–1849	Vice President
Millard Fillmore	1849–1850	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
William Rufus de Vane King	1850–1852	Pro tempore
David Rice Atchison	1852–1853	Pro tempore
William Rufus de Vane King	1853	Vice President, Died
David Rice Atchison	1853–1854	Pro tempore
Lewis Cass	1854	Pro tempore
Jesse Bright	1854–1856	Pro tempore
Charles E. Stuart	1856	Pro tempore
Jesse Bright	1856–1857	Pro tempore
James Murray Mason	1857	Pro tempore
John C. Breckinridge	1857–1861	Vice President
Hannibal Hamlin	1861–1865	Vice President
Andrew Johnson	1865	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Lafayette Foster	1865–1867	Pro tempore
Benjamin Wade	1867–1869	Pro tempore
Schuyler Colfax	1869–1873	Vice President
Henry Wilson	1873–1875	Vice President, Died
Thomas Ferry	1875–1877	Pro tempore
William A. Wheeler	1877–1881	Vice President
Chester Arthur	1881	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Thomas F. Bayard	1881	Pro tempore
David Davis III	1881–1883	Pro tempore
George F. Edmunds	1883–1885	Pro tempore
Thomas A. Hendricks	1885	Vice President, Died
John Sherman	1885–1887	Pro tempore
John James Ingalls	1887–1889	Pro tempore
Levi P. Morton	1889–1893	Vice President
Adlai E. Stevenson I	1893–1897	Vice President
Garret Hobart	1897–1899	Vice President, Died
William Frye	1899–1901	Pro tempore
Theodore Roosevelt	1901	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
William Frye	1901–1905	Pro tempore
Charles Fairbanks	1905–1909	Pro tempore
James S. Sherman	1909–1912	Vice President, Died
Rotation of Presidents Pro tempore	1912–1913
Thomas R. Marshall	1913–1921	Vice President
Calvin Coolidge	1921–1923	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Albert Cummins	1923–1925	Pro tempore
Charles Dawes	1925–1929	Vice President
Charles Curtis	1929–1933	Vice President
John Nance Garner	1933–1941	Vice President
Henry A. Wallace	1941–1945	Vice President
Harry Truman	1945	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Kenneth McKellar	1945–1947	Pro tempore
Arthur Vandenberg	1947–1949	Pro tempore
Kenneth McKellar	1949	Pro tempore
Alben Barkley	1949–1953	Vice President
Richard Nixon	1953–1961	Vice President
Lyndon Johnson	1961–1963	Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
Carl Hayden	1963–1965	Pro tempore
Hubert Humphrey	1965–1969	Vice President
Spiro Agnew	1969–1973	Vice President, Resigned
James Eastland	1973	Pro tempore
Gerald Ford	1973–1974	named Vice President, succeeded to Presidency
James Eastland	1974	Pro tempore
Nelson Rockefeller	1974–1977	named Vice President
Walter Mondale	1977–1981	Vice President
George H. W. Bush	1981–1989	Vice President
Dan Quayle	1989–1993	Vice President
Al Gore	1993–2001	Vice President
Dick Cheney	2001–present	Vice President

See also

• Acting Vice President of the United States
• Presiding Officer of the United States Senate
• Vice President of the United States