Supreme Chancellor (AH2000)

Supreme Chancellor, usually simply known as the Chancellor or Chancellor (name of office holder) and also known as Chancellor of the Republic, Grand Chancellor, President of the Republic, or President of the Senate was the title of the Head of State and Government as well as Senate President and Senate Chair of the Galactic Republic.

Appointment of the Chancellor

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.

Elections for Chancellor

• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 4,000 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 3,653 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 67 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 65 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 61 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 60 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 56 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 52 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 48 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 44 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 40 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 36 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 32 BBY
• Galactic Republic Chancery election, 28 BBY

Powers and functions of the Chancellorship

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.

Chancellor Finis Valorum was seen during the Blockade of Naboo and presided over the dispute between Naboo and the Trade Federation. He was ousted when Queen Amidala, on Senator Palpatine's urging, moved for a vote of no confidence.

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