The position is the highest-ranking leader and most powerful member of the Senate.

According to the Portland Tribune, he is Oregon's "highest-ranking black leader and the only black man serving in the Oregon Legislature" as of 2010.

The "capitalist roader" was Deng Xiaoping, who was later to be China's highest-ranking leader until his death in 1987.

He was the highest-ranking Communist leader from the 1970's and 80's still active in the murky nexus of Bulgarian politics and business.

He was the highest-ranking black leader in a white society until modern times and really a very serious revolutionary.

Ravi, you are the highest-ranking military leader Hamas ever had.

He was also named Commissary in the Virginia Colony for the Bishop of London, making him the colony's highest-ranking religious leader.

The four highest-ranking leaders of Congress plan to meet by Monday afternoon to map out the resolution's course through the House and Senate over the next two weeks.

The highest-ranking leader of the latter organization was the Imperial Wizard.

The President pro tempore of the California State Senate is the highest-ranking leader and most powerful member of the Senate.