The Green Papers
The Green Papers
81st Session of the Congress, 1949-1951
session type convened adjourned President pro Tempore
of the Senate
Speaker of the House
of Representatives
1st odd 3 January 1949 19 October 1949 McKellar
(returning)
Rayburn
(returning)

Senate President pro Tempore Kenneth McKellar served as acting President of the Senate during this "odd" session of the 81st Congress due to a vacancy in the Vice Presidency of the United States until Noon on 20 January 1949 (when Vice President Alben W. Barkley was sworn in for a full four-year term in that office); during this same period, House Speaker Sam Rayburn was next in line to the Presidency under the 1947 Presidential Succession Act.

2nd even(ld) 3 January 1950 2 January 1951 McKellar Rayburn

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