The president of the Massachusetts Senate is the presiding officer. Unlike the United States Congress, in which the vice president of the United States is the ex officio president of the United States
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John E. Powers was an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1959 to 1964.
Powers, circa 1963
Powers in the 1960s