List of Canadian Leaders of the Government in the Senate

The ministerial office of Leader of the Government in the Senate was recognized under the Great Seal of Canada on March 28 1969 and went into force on April 1 1969, Previously the position was not a ministerial office, although, with one exception, the incumbent also held a Cabinet portfolio while serving as Leader of the Government in the Senate. From 1935 until 1969 the Cabinet typically had a single Senator among its ranks with the position of minister without portfolio who also acted as Government Leader in the Senate. The position's counterpart on the Senate's Opposition bench is the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.

See Senators in Cabinet

1.	Paul Joseph James Martin	under Trudeau	April 1 1969 - August 7 1974
2.	Raymond Joseph Perrault	under Trudeau	August 8 1974 - June 3 1979
3.	Jacques Flynn	under Clark	June 4 1979 - March 2 1980
4.	Raymond Joseph Perrault	under Trudeau	March 3 1980 - September 29 1982
5.	Bud Olson	under Trudeau	September 30 1982 - June 29 1984
6.	Allan MacEachen	under Turner	June 30 1984 - September 16 1984
7.	Duff Roblin	under Mulroney	September 17 1984 - June 29 1986
8.	Lowell Murray	under Mulroney	June 30 1986 - June 24 1993
*	Lowell Murray (cont'd.)	under Campbell	June 24 1993 - November 3 1993
9.	Joyce Fairbairn	under Chrétien	November 4 1993 - June 10 1997
10.	Alasdair Bernard Graham	under Chrétien	June 11 1997 - October 3 1999
11.	J. Bernard Boudreau	under Chrétien	October 4 1999 - January 8 2001
12.	Sharon Carstairs	under Chrétien	January 9 2001 - December 11 2003
13.	Jack Austin	under Martin	since December 12 2003

Leaders of the Government in the Senate prior to 1969

• Alexander Campbell, July 1 1867 - November 7 1873, Conservative
• Luc Letellier de St-Just, November 7 1873 - December 14 1876, Liberal
• Sir Richard William Scott, December 14 1876 - October 7 1878, Liberal
• Alexander Campbell, October 18 1878 - January 26 1887, Conservative
• Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott*, May 12 1887 - October 30 1893, Conservative
• Sir Mackenzie Bowell**, October 31 1893 - April 27 1896, Conservative
• Sir Oliver Mowat, August 19 1896 - November 18 1897, Liberal
• David Mills, November 18 1897 - February 7 1902, Liberal
• Sir Richard William Scott, December 14 1902 - 1908, Liberal
• Sir Richard John Cartwright, 1909 - October 6 1911, Liberal
• Sir James Alexander Lougheed, October 10 1911 - December 28 1921, Conservative
• Raoul Dandurand, December 29 1921 - June 28 1926, Liberal
• William Benjamin Ross***, June 28 1926 - September 24 1926, Conservative
• Raoul Dandurand, September 25 1926 - August 6 1930, Liberal
• Wellington Bartley Willoughby, August 7 1930 - February 3 1932, Conservative
• Arthur Meighen, February 3 1932 - October 22 1935, Conservative
• Raoul Dandurand, October 23 1935 - March 11 1942, Liberal
• James Horace King , May 26 1942 - August 24 1945, Liberal
• Wishart McLea Robertson , August 24 1945 - October 14 1953, Liberal
• William Ross Macdonald, October 14 1953 - June 20 1957, Liberal
• John Thomas Haig, October 9 1957 - May 11 1958, Progressive Conservative
• Walter Morley Aseltine, May 12 1958 - August 31 1962, Progressive Conservative
• Alfred Johnson Brooks , August 31 1962 - April 21 1963, Progressive Conservative
• William Ross Macdonald, April 22 1963 - February 2 1964, Liberal
• John Joseph Connolly , February 3 1964 - April 19 1968, Liberal
• Paul Joseph James Martin****, April 20 1968 - April 1 1969

(*)Prime Minister of Canada from June 16, 1891 to November 24, 1892.

(**)Prime Minister of Canada from December 21, 1894 to April 27, 1896.

(***) Had no concurrent portfolio in Cabinet.

(****) Minister without portfolio and de facto government leader in the Senate until April 1, 1969 when Leader of the Government in the Senate became an official ministerial office.