Supreme Chancellor, usually simply known as the Chancellor or Chancellor (name of office holder) and also known as Chancellor of the Republic, Grand Chancellor,[1]President of the Republic,[2] or President of the Senate[3] was the title of the Head of State and Government as well as Senate President and Senate Chair of the Galactic Republic.
The Chancellor was elected by and from the senators and representatives of the Galactic Senate and could serve two four-year terms before being forced to retire from the Chancellorship because of term limits. The Chancellor could be removed from office at any time by the Senate with a Vote of No Confidence. All of the Chancellors elected between 1,400 BBY and 1,000 BBY were Jedi, a trend finally broken with the 1,000 BBY election of Tarsus Valorum.[4]
The office was largely powerless in the last years of the Republic, especially after the Ruusan Reformations, and the Chancellor served mainly as an officiator of parliamentary procedure and the first among equals in the Senate. However, it had the authority to call an Extraordinary Session of the Senate, and could invoke "Chancellor's prerogative" in circumventing minor aspects of the Senate's parliamentary procedure. He also was the head of the Senatorial Council.
It was still a very prestigious position, however, and the Chancellor had a grand office in both the Senate Rotunda's Chancellery and in the dome-like Senate Office Building in Galactic City. The Chancellor was properly addressed as "Your Excellency". The symbol of the office of the Chancellor, as well as the Galactic Senate as a whole, was a fanned spear. This sigil was also emblazoned prominently on the Chancellor's podium in the center of the Senate Rotunda's Main Chamber. When in the Main Chamber, the Chancellor usually wore a Veda cloth robe. The Chancellor was elected from among the Senators who made up the Galactic Senate and served a term of office that lasted for four standard years. A Chancellor could legally serve only two consecutive four-year terms before he or she had to step down due to term limits.
The office became much more powerful during the term of Chancellor Palpatine, who was able to convince the Senate to grant him a range of "emergency" powers due to the Separatist Crisis and then the Clone Wars, including an unconstitutional extension of his term of office after 24 BBY for the duration of the Separatist Crisis and authority as Commander-in-Chief of their new military during the Clone Wars. The Chancellor was given more direct power over administrative concerns, and he was allowed to overrule local planetary and sectorial governments. The Sector Governance Decree allowed him to appoint military governors to every planet in the Republic, and the Security Act amendment gave him complete control over the Jedi Order and Republic military, stripping both the Jedi and the Senate of their previous oversight.
Eventually, Palpatine became a dictator and proclaimed himself Emperor of the galaxy, thus abolishing the office of Chancellor and transforming the Galactic Republic into the Galactic Empire. The position was not revived by the New Republic, which chose instead to call its Head of State and Government the Chief of State. Although the office of Chancellor had existed as a symbol of good for thousands of years since the dawn of the Galactic Republic, Palpatine's thirteen years in the Chancellorship, added to his reign as Galactic Emperor, forever tainted the once noble and prestigious position to the point where it was far too controversial to be revived in the New Republic.
List of known Supreme Chancellors of the Galactic Republic[]
Before the Ruusan Reformation[]
25,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Jurriaan Starkiller
25,053-25,045 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Independent
Lansl De Maal
25,045-25,038 BBY
Duros
Male
Duro
Independent
Albinia Svetlan
25,038-25,028 BBY
Human
Female
Esseles
Independent
15,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Comos Fillorean
15,508-15,500 BBY
Human
Male
Corulag
Corulagian Alliance of Conservatives
12,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Daig Tuihl
12,004-12,000 BBY
Galandan
Male
Galand
Civic Action Party
11,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Kur Pers'lya
12,000-11,987 BBY
Bothan
Male
Bothawui
Civic Action Party
Bonus Contispex
11,987-11,947 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Pius Dea
10,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Biel Ductavis
10,966-? BBY
Herglic
Male
Ossus(born on Giju)
Jedi
8,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Blotus the Hutt
9000-8725 BBY
Hutt
Hermaphrodite
Sleheyron
Blotist Union
Owp Marol
8725 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Blotist Union
Bilrun Stad
8725-8724 BBY
Human
Male
Alsakan
Blotist Union
Ovidia Zotican
8724-8715 BBY
Human
Female
Kaikielius.
Independent
5,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Fral Fattum
5010-5000 BBY
Human
Male
Koros Minor
Core Worlds People's Organization
4,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Rebas Pultimo
5000-4990
Miraluka(Near-Human)
Male
Alpheridies
Democratic Party of the Republic
Unknown
Pot Rivn
4805-4800 BBY
Vulptereen
Male
Vulpter
Regional Movement
Vocatara
4800-4790 BBY
Sephi
Male
Thustra
Democratic Party of the Republic
Aegle Cushan
4790-4785 BBY
Human
Female
Halco
Democratic Congress
3,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Sidrona Diath
4000-3997 BBY
Human
Male
Tatooine
Jedi
Aaka Olufa Buka
3997-3996 BBY
Jao
Male
Jao
Independence from Sith Party
Cholas Netus
3996-3990 BBY
Human
Male
Rudrig
Independence from Sith Party, then Independent
Sel Dazon
3990-3980 BBY
Arcona
Male
Cona
Unity Alliance
Bohasph Rive
3980-3975 BBY
Human
Male
Orron III (born on Atzerri )
Centre Party (Galactic Republic)
Uneza Ghys
3975-3965 BBY
Human
Female
Tepasi
Centre Party (Galactic Republic)
Tyak sha
3965-3958 BBY
Togruta
Male
Shili
Patriotic Party
Koa Delko
3958-3955 BBY
Quermian
Male
Quermia
Patriotic Party
Dahle Cressa
3955-3945 BBY
Zeltron
Male
Zeltros
Centre Party (Galactic Republic)
Dallan Morvis
3945-3940 BBY
Human
Male
Chandrila
Independent
Unknown
Berooken
3660-3653 BBY
Mon Calamari
Male
Dac
United Front
Paran Am-Ris
3653-3652 BBY
Cerean
Male
Cerea
United Front
Tatian Janarus
3652-3641 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Coruscanti Liberal Party
Saresh
3641-3637 BBY
Twi'lek
Male
Taris (born on Axxila)
United Front
2,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Nac Otan
2010-2008 BBY
Kedorzhan
Male
Kedorzha
Wharf Union
Yishan Kendric
2008-2001 BBY
Human
Male
Chandrila
Progressive Movement
Dasse Ewmii
2001-1993 BBY
Chagrian
Female
Champala
Progressive Movement, then New Front
1,000s BBY[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
1993-1992 BBY
Human
Male
Empress Teta
New Front
Doo Telle
1992-1988 BBY
Umbaran
Female
Umbara
New Front
1988-1987 BBY
Bith
Male
Clak'dor VII
New Front
Unknown
1871-1867 BBY
Human
Male
Senna
New Front
Torugga Baryz
1867 BBY
Gamorrean
Female
Gamorr
Independent
Unknown
Angra Clancos
1623-1600 BBY
Sith Pureblood
Male
Korriban
Sith
Unknown
Wreesl Rodd
1314-1307 BBY
Rodian
Male
Rodia
Jedi
Unknown
1215-1196 BBY
Human/Echani
Male
Anaxes
Jedi
Unknown
Xan Kon
1044-1033 BBY
Human
Male
Drunost
Jedi
Genarra
1033-1026 BBY
Twi'lek
Female
Ryloth
Jedi
After the Ruusan Reformation[]
Image
Name
Term
Specie
Sex
Home Planet
Party
Tarsus Valorum
1,000-992 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Core faction(Galactic Republican Party)
Sola Thule
992-984 BBY
Human
Female
Naboo
Core faction(Independent)
984-976 BBY
Selkath
Male
Manaan
Rim faction(Free Space Party)
Unknown
Anwis Eddicus
704-700 BBY
Tionese(Human)
Male
Lianna
Core faction(Galactic People’s Union)
Unknown
480-472 BBY
Human
Female
Dantooine
Rim faction(Rally for the Republic’’)
Tash Metonae
472-464 BBY
Human
Male
Alderaan
Core faction(Law & Order Alliance)
Unknown
Che Epapowa
324-316 BBY
Pantoran
Female
Pantora
Rim faction(Free Space Party)
Gacuwca(1)
316-312 BBY
Wookiee
Male
Kashyyyk
Rim faction(Wroshyr Party)
Unknown
Signet Mezzileen
236-232 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Core faction(Galactic Republican Party)
Eixes Valorum
232-224 BBY
Human
Male
Coruscant
Core faction(Galactic Republican Party)
Unknown
Gacuwca(2)
79-75 BBY
Wookiee
Male
Kashyyyk
Rim faction(Wroshyr Party)
Karra Myaa
75-67 BBY
Human
Female
Tarabba Prime
Core faction(Liberal-Democratic Party of Tarabba Prime)
Ba Nudo
67-65 BBY
Aqualish
Male
Ando
Rim faction(Anti-Jedi Party)
Vaila Pecivas
65-60 BBY
Koorivar
Female
Kooriva
Rim faction(Free Space Party)
Thoris Darus
60-52 BBY
Human
Male
Corulag
Core faction(Law & Order Alliance)
Solk Frix
52-48 BBY
Zabrak
Male
Iridonia
Rim faction(Free Space Party)
Hakan Kalpana
48-40 BBY
Human
Male
Emerido
Core faction(Law & Order Alliance)
Finis Valorum
40-32 BBY
Human
Male
Spira (born on Coruscant)
Core faction(Galactic Republican Party)
Cosinga Palpatine II(Darth Sidious)
32-19 BBY
Human
Male
Naboo
Sith/ Independent with affiliations with Rim & Core factions