Party leaders of the United States Senate Totally Explained

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The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders (also called Senate Floor Leaders) are two United States Senators who are elected by the party conferences that hold the majority and the minority respectively. These leaders serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding Officer gives the Majority Leader priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate.
The Majority leader customarily serves as the chief representative and "face" of his or her party in Senate, and sometimes even in all of Congress if the House of Representatives and thus the office of Speaker of the House is controlled by the opposition party.
Many state senates are organized in the same way as the United States Senate.

Current floor leaders

The current floor leaders are Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (Majority) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Minority)

History

The Democrats began this practice starting in 1920 while they were in the minority. In 1925 the majority (of the time) Republicans also adopted this language when Charles Curtis became the first Majority Leader.
The Constitution designates the Vice President of the United States as President of the Senate. The Constitution also calls for a President Pro Tempore to serve as the leader of the body when the President of the Senate (the Vice President) is absent. All of these roles still exist today; however, for practical purposes it's now the Majority Leader who runs the Senate.
In recent years it has become more common for the leader of the majority party to be referred to as the "Majority Leader" and the leader of the minority party to be referred to as the "Leader" of his party in order to reduce the implication that "Minority" connotes of lesser power.

List of Senate floor leaders

The Democratic Party first selected a leader in 1920. The Republican Party first formally designated a leader in 1925.
(Names in Bold indicate Majority Leaders)

Congress	Dates	Democratic Leader	State	Republican Leader	State
66th	1920-1921	Oscar W. Underwood	Alabama	Henry Cabot Lodge (unofficial)	Massachusetts
67th	1921-1923	Oscar W. Underwood	Alabama
68th	1923-November 9, 1924	Joseph T. Robinson	Arkansas
68th	1925			Charles Curtis	Kansas
69th	1925-1927
70th	1927-1929
71st	1929-1931			James E. Watson	Indiana
72nd	1931-1933			James E. Watson	Indiana
73rd	1933-1935	Joseph T. Robinson		Charles L. McNary	Oregon
74th	1935-1937
75th	1937-July 14, 1937
75th	July 22, 1937-1939	Alben W. Barkley	Kentucky
76th	1939
76th	1940			Warren Austin (acting)	Vermont
77th	1941-1943			Charles L. McNary	Oregon
78th	1943-1945			Wallace H. White Jr. (acting)	Maine
79th	1945-1947			Wallace H. White Jr.
80th	1947-1949	Alben W. Barkley		Wallace H. White Jr.
81st	1949-1951	Scott W. Lucas	Illinois	Kenneth S. Wherry	Nebraska
82nd	1951-1952	Ernest McFarland	Arizona	Kenneth S. Wherry	Nebraska
82nd	1952-1953	Ernest McFarland	Arizona	Styles Bridges	New Hampshire
83rd	January 3, 1953 - July 31, 1953	Lyndon B. Johnson	Texas	Robert A. Taft	Ohio
83rd	August 3, 1953 - January 3, 1955	Lyndon B. Johnson		William F. Knowland	California
84th	1955-1957	Lyndon Johnson		William F. Knowland
85th	1957-1959			William F. Knowland
86th	1959-1961			Everett M. Dirksen	Illinois
87th	1961-1963	Mike Mansfield	Montana
88th	1963-1965
89th	1965-1967
90th	1967-1969
91st	1969-September 7, 1969
91st	September 24 1969-1971			Hugh Scott	Pennsylvania
92nd	1971-1973
93rd	1973-1975
94th	1975-1977
95th	1977-1979	Robert Byrd	West Virginia	Howard H. Baker Jr.	Tennessee
96th	1979-1981	Robert Byrd		Howard H. Baker Jr.
97th	1981-1983	Robert Byrd		Howard H. Baker Jr.
98th	1983-1985			Howard H. Baker Jr.
99th	1985-1987			Bob Dole	Kansas
100th	1987-1989	Robert Byrd		Bob Dole
101st	1989-1991	George Mitchell	Maine
102nd	1991-1993
103rd	1993-1995
104th	December 2, 1994-June 12, 1996	Tom Daschle	South Dakota	Bob Dole
104th	June 12, 1996-1997			Trent Lott	Mississippi
105th	1997-1999
106th	1999-2001
107th	January 3, 2001-January 20, 2001	Tom Daschle		Trent Lott
	January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001	Tom Daschle		Trent Lott
	June 6, 2001-November 25 2002	Tom Daschle		Trent Lott
	November 25 2002–January 3, 2003	Tom Daschle		Trent Lott
108th	2003-2005	Tom Daschle		Bill Frist	Tennessee
109th	2005-2007	Harry Reid	Nevada	Bill Frist	Tennessee
110th	2007-present	Harry Reid		Mitch McConnell	Kentucky

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