Republican Conference Chairman of the United States Senate

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The Republican conference of the United States Senate chooses a conference chairperson. The office was created in the mid-19th century with the founding of the Republican party. The office of "party floor leader" was not created until 1925, and for twenty years, the Senate's Republican conference chairman was also the floor leader.

List of Republican Conference Chairmen in the United States Senate

This is an incomplete list of Republican Conference Chairmen in the United States Senate:

Dates	Name	State	Notes
-1862	John P. Hale	New Hampshire
1862-1884	Henry B. Anthony	Rhode Island
1884-1885	John Sherman	Ohio
1885-1891	George Edmunds	Vermont
1891-1897	John Sherman	Ohio
1897-1908	William B. Allison	Iowa
1908-1911	Eugene Hale	Maine
1911-1913	Shelby Cullom	Illinois
1913-1918	Jacob H. Gallinger	New Hampshire
1918-1924	Henry Cabot Lodge I	Massachusetts
1924-1929	Charles Curtis	Kansas	Also Republican floor leader from 1925
1929-1933	James E. Watson	Indiana	Also Republican floor leader
1933-1944	Charles L. McNary	Oregon	Also Republican floor leader
1945-1946	Arthur H. Vandenberg	Michigan
1947-1956	Eugene D. Millikin	Colorado
1957-1966	Leverett Saltonstall	Massachusetts
1967-1972	Margaret Chase Smith	Maine
1973-1974	Norris Cotton	New Hampshire
1975-1978	Carl T. Curtis	Nebraska
1979-1980	Robert Packwood	Oregon
1981-1984	James A. McClure	Idaho
1985-1990	John Chafee	Rhode Island
1991-1996	W. Thad Cochran	Mississippi
1997-2001	Cornelius McGillicuddy III	Florida
2001-present	Richard J. Santorum	Pennsylvania

See also

• United States Senate Democratic Conference Chairman

Party conferences in the United States Congress
Senate Republican Conference	Senate	Senate Democratic Caucus
Conference Chairman	Chairperson	Caucus Chairperson
Conference Secretary	Secretary	Caucus Secretary
Rep. Committee Chair	Policy Committee	Dem. Committee Chair
House Republican Conference	House of Representatives	House Democratic Caucus
Conference Chairperson	Presiding Officer	Caucus Chairperson
Vice-Chair	Vice Chairman	Vice-Chair / Secretary
Conference Secretary	Secretary
Rep. Committee Chair	> Policy Committee	Dem. Committee Co-Chair

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