President of the Federal Senate (Brazil)

The President of the Federal Senate, sometimes referred to as the President of the Senate, is elected from among their number by the members of the Brazilian Federal Senate.

President of the Federal Senate
Incumbent Rodrigo Pacheco since 1 February 2021
Appointer	Elected by the Federal Senate
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Brazil
Inaugural holder	José Egídio Álvares de Almeida 1826
Formation	1826
Succession	Third in the Brazilian presidential line of succession

They stand third in the order of presidential succession, after the Vice-President of the Republic and the President of the Chamber of Deputies.

List

Name	Served	Original state
Floriano Vieira Peixoto	1891	Mato Grosso
Prudente de Morais	1891–1894	São Paulo
Manuel Vitorino	1895–1898	Bahia
Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva	1898–1902	Pernambuco
Afonso Pena	1902–1906	Minas Gerais
Nilo Pecanha	1896–1909	Rio de Janeiro
Venceslau Brás	1910–1914	Minas Gerais
Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo	1914–1918	Maranhão
Delfim Moreira	1918–1920	Minas Gerais
Bueno de Paiva	1920–1922	Minas Gerais
Estácio Coimbra	1922–1926	Pernambuco
Fernando de Melo Viana	1926–1930	Minas Gerais
Antônio Garcia de Medeiros Neto	1935–1937	Bahia
Valdomiro de Barros Magalhães	1936	Minas Gerais
Nereu Ramos	1946–1951	Santa Catarina
Café Filho	1951–1954	Rio Grande do Norte
Alexandre Marcondes Machado Filho	1951–1954	São Paulo
Apolônio Jorge de Faria Salles	1956–1958	Pernambuco
João Goulart	1956–1961	Rio Grande do Sul
Auro Soares de Moura Andrade	1961–1968	São Paulo
Gilberto Marinho	1968–1970	Rio de Janeiro
João Cleofas de Oliveira	1970–1971	Pernambuco
Petrônio Portela Nunes	1971–1973	Piauí
Filinto Müller	1973	Mato Grosso
Paulo Francisco Torres	1973–1975	Rio de Janeiro
Magalhães Pinto	1975–1977	Minas Gerais
Petrônio Portela Nunes	1977–1979	Piauí
Luiz Viana Filho	1979–1981	Bahia
Jarbas Passarinho	1981–1983	Pará
Nilo de Souza Coelho	1983	Pernambuco
Moacyr Dalla	1983–1985	Espírito Santo
José Fragelli	1985–1987	Mato Grosso
Humberto Lucena	1987–1989	Paraíba
Nelson Carneiro	1989–1991	Rio de Janeiro
Mauro Benevides	1991–1993	Ceará
Humberto Lucena	1993–1995	Paraíba
José Sarney	1995–1997	Amapá
Antonio Carlos Magalhães	1997–2001	Bahia
Jader Barbalho	2001	Pará
Edison Lobão	2001	Maranhão
Ramez Tebet	2001–2003	Mato Grosso do Sul
José Sarney	2003–2005	Amapá
Renan Calheiros	2005–2007	Alagoas
Tião Viana	2007 (interim)	Acre
Garibaldi Alves Filho	2007–2009	Rio Grande do Norte
José Sarney	2009–2013	Amapá
Renan Calheiros	2013—2017	Alagoas
Eunício Oliveira	2017—2019	Ceará
Davi Alcolumbre	2019—2021	Amapá
Rodrigo Pacheco	since 2021	Minas Gerais