session | type | convened | adjourned | President pro Tempore of the Senate | Speaker of the House of Representatives |
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Special | SENATE | 4 March 1851 | 13 March 1851 | King | - - - - |
This Special Session of the SENATE was called by President Millard Fillmore via executive Proclamation issued on 3 March 1851. | |||||
1st | long | 1 December 1851 | 31 August 1852 | King | Boyd, Linn (Dem.- Kentucky) |
2nd | short | 6 December 1852 | 3 March 1853 | Atchison, D.R. (returning) | Boyd |
Senate President pro Tempores King and Atchison each served as acting President of the Senate throughout the entirety of the 32nd Congress due to a vacancy in the Vice Presidency of the United States (Vice President Millard Fillmore having succeeded to the Presidency during the preceding Congress). |
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