Editing Colorado Senate (section)

==History==
The first meeting of the Colorado General Assembly took place from November 1, 1876, through March 20, 1877.<ref name="cohistory">[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 May 27, 2013)</ref> Lafayette Head was the first state senate president.<ref name="cohistory"/>

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="cohistory"/> Fred Anderson was the first state senate president elected after the amendment.<ref name="cohistory"/> [[Ruth Stockton]] was the first woman to become Senate's [[president pro tempore]], serving from 1979 to 1980.<ref>{{cite web|title=Colorado legislators past and present|url=http://www.leg.state.co.us/lcs/leghist.nsf/DocView.xsp?docId=643214870A4D826B872578E2006320D6|website=Colorado State Legislature|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ruth Stockton|url=http://www.cogreatwomen.org/project/ruth-stockton/|website=Colorado Women's Hall of Fame|access-date=16 April 2018}}</ref>