As a senior Republican, he became his party's second-ranking member on the powerful Ways and Means Committee.

Yegor K. Ligachev: 67, second-ranking member of Politburo and hero of the conservative silent majority.

Tria Aguinaldo, later known as "Thunder," is the second-ranking member of Version Two.

Since then, the leader of the Country/National Party has been the second-ranking member in nearly every non-Labor government.

He or she is the second-ranking member of the executive branch of Kansas state government.

School administrators have also placed Ronald Pittore, the second-ranking member of its legal management department, on administrative leave.

The lieutenant governor is currently the second-ranking member of the executive branch of the state Government of Florida.

Kyl is the second-ranking member of the Senate Republican leadership.

Durbin is the second-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership.

Mr. Tallon, who is 51, plans to begin the job on Sept. 8, leaving the Assembly after 19 years, seven of them as its second-ranking member.