Editing Colorado General Assembly (section)

==History==
{{see also|List of Colorado state legislatures}}
The first meeting of the Colorado General Assembly took place from November 1, 1876, through March 20, 1877.<ref name="cogov">[http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1251852515742&ssbinary=true Presidents and Speakers of the Colorado General Assembly: A Biographical Portrait from 1876] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115013255/http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1251852515742&ssbinary=true |date=January 15, 2015 }}, Colorado.gov, 2013 Revised Edition. (accessed April 29, 2013)</ref> Succeeding sessions met every two years until 1950, when it began to meet annually.<ref name="cogov"/>

The lieutenant governor served as Senate President until 1974 when Article V, Section 10 of the state constitution was amended, granting the [[Colorado]] Senate the right to elect one of its own members as President.<ref name="cogov"/>