| Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland | |
|---|---|
| Marszałek Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej | |
| Appointer | The Senate |
| Formation | 1922 |
| First holder | Wojciech Trąmpczyński |
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TheMarshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (Polish:Marszałek Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the presiding officer of theSenate of Poland. The marshal is also third person according to thePolish order of precedence, afterPresident of the Republic of Poland andSejm Marshal, and second in line to becomeActing President of the Republic of Poland (after Sejm Marshal; in period 1935-1939 Senate Marshal was the first). Because of both precedence order and succession order, the marshal is commonly referred to as the "third person in state". The person who functions as their second-in-command is theDeputy Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland.


Marshal:
Marshals of the Senate existed as early as theDuchy of Warsaw (19th century). In thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the role was performed by theGrand Crown Marshals.
| № | Name (Birth–Death) | Portrait | Political affiliation | Term of office | Senate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | ||||||
| 1 | Wojciech Trąmpczyński (1860–1953) | Independent | 1 December 1922 | 28 November 1927 | 4 years, 363 days | 1st | ||
| 2 | Julian Szymański (1870–1958) | BBWR | 27 March 1928 | 30 August 1930 | 2 years, 157 days | 2nd | ||
| 3 | Władysław Raczkiewicz (1885–1947) | BBWR | 9 December 1930 | 10 July 1935 | 4 years, 214 days | 3rd | ||
| 4 | Aleksander Prystor (1874–1941) [1] | BBWR[a] | 4 October 1935 | 13 September 1938 | 2 years, 345 days | 4th | ||
| Camp of National Unity | ||||||||
| 5 | Bogusław Miedziński (1891–1972) [2] | Camp of National Unity | 28 November 1938 | 2 November 1939 | 340 days | 5th | ||
| № | Name (Birth–Death) | Portrait | Parliamentary group (party)[b] | Constituency | Term of office | Senate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Duration | |||||||
| 1 | Andrzej Stelmachowski (1925–2009) [5] | Citizens' Parliamentary Club | Białystok | 4 July 1989 | 25 November 1991 | 2 years, 21 days | 1st | ||
| 2 | August Chełkowski (1927–1999) [6] | Independent | Katowice | 26 November 1991 | 31 May 1993 | 1 year, 187 days | 2nd | ||
| 3 | Adam Struzik (born 1957) [7] | Polish People's Party | Płock | 15 October 1993 | 20 October 1997 | 4 years, 5 days | 3rd | ||
| 4 | Alicja Grześkowiak (born 1941) [8] | Solidarity Electoral Action | Toruń | 21 October 1997 | 18 October 2001 | 3 years, 363 days | 4th | ||
| 5 | Longin Pastusiak (1935–2025) [9] | Democratic Left Alliance | 24 (Gdańsk) | 20 October 2001 | 18 October 2005 | 3 years, 364 days | 5th | ||
| 6 | Bogdan Borusewicz (born 1949) [10] | Independent | 24 (Gdańsk) | 20 October 2005 | 4 November 2007 | 2 years, 16 days | 6th | ||
| 5 November 2007 | 7 November 2011 | 4 years, 3 days | 7th | ||||||
| Civic Platform[c] | |||||||||
| 65 (Gdańsk-Sopot) | 8 November 2011 | 11 November 2015 | 4 years, 4 days | 8th | |||||
| 7 | Stanisław Karczewski (born 1955) [11] | Law and Justice | 49 (Radom II) | 12 November 2015 | 11 November 2019 | 4 years, 0 days | 9th | ||
| 8 | Tomasz Grodzki (born 1958) [12] | Civic Platform | 97 (Szczecin) | 12 November 2019 | 12 November 2023 | 4 years, 1 day | 10th | ||
| 9 | Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (born 1957) [13] | Civic Coalition | 43 (South Warsaw) | 13 November 2023 | Incumbent | 2 years, 14 days | 11th | ||
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