Speaker of the Senate is a title given to the
presiding officer of the
Senate in a small number of jurisdictions and mainly amongst English-speaking countries.
Senate of Canada: The Speaker of the Senate occupies the chair in front of the thrones.
The U.S. state of
Tennessee has a Speaker of the Senate who presides over the
upper house of the State Legislature. The Speaker of the Senate also serves as the
Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee due to the Speaker of the Senate being the first in line of succession to the Governor under the Tennessee Constitution.
The U.S. state of
Kentucky formerly had a Speaker of the Senate under a prior constitution; the office was briefly of significant importance during the
Civil War due to the death of
Linn Boyd who was then
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
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