Ionian Senate

During most of its history it was housed at the Palace of St. Michael and St. George in Corfu, where its meeting room can still be seen with the original furniture.

[1] After Orio was sent to Constantinople to negotiate the new state's constitution, the presidency of the Senate passed to Count Spyridon Georgios Theotokis.

[5] After Theotokis's death on 24 November, a new president of the Senate and head of state of the Republic was elected, Antonios Komoutos from Zakynthos.

[5][7] The Senate was converted into a legislative body with the 1806 "Russian Constitution", still with seventeen members: four each for Corfu, Cephalonia, and Zakynthos, two for Lefkada, and one each for the minor islands, of whom nine served for three years and eight for four.

[9] After the downfall of Napoleon and the restoration of Louis XVIII, and the surrender of Corfu to the British, the Ionian Senate, declaring that the Republic had been suspended but not abolished under the French and British occupation, tried to advocate for the independence of the Islands in the Congress of Vienna, but the British governor-general, Sir James Campbell, refused to accept this view, holding that the Republic had ceased to exist after Tilsit, and regarding the appointed Senate as not representative of the Ionian people.