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 President pro tempore of the United States Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Because of the smaller size of the Senate and because Senate rules of procedure give more power to individual senators, the President Pro Tem is not a powerful position especially in comparison to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or even the party leaders of the Senate.
Since 1947, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate has been third in line to succeed to the US presidency in the case of death or resignation, after the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Before the Republicans regained control of the Senate after the congressional elections of November 5, 2002, the President Pro Tempore was Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
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 Benjamin Wade
During the Civil War, he was chair of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and sponsored the Wade-Davis Bill (1864), an early attempt by Congress to wrest control over the Reconstruction process from the President.
The bill stipulated Confederate disfranchisement, a loyalty oath of 50 percent of the electorate, and abolition of slavery before a state could be readmitted to the Union.
Wade’s position as president pro tem of the Senate made him next in line to succeed to the Presidency.
www.andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/BenjaminWade.htm   (208 words)

  
 Georgia Daily Digest
As president of Georgia's first new public college in 35 years, Kaufman had little to work with.
Of the 124 public and private institutions that U.S. News and World Report ranked, UGA comes in at No. 60.
"We're traveling in an impressive peer group of top institutions and are most pleased to be included among the nation's top public universities again this year," UGA President Michael Adams said.
www.georgiadailydigest.com   (1541 words)

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