List of Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives
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The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Texas House of Representatives.
For more information about the office and powers of the Speaker see Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Republic of Texas
Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Congresses of the Republic of Texas.
Name | Term in Office | Congress |
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Ira Ingram | 1836–1837 | 1st |
Branch Tanner Archer | 1837 | 2nd |
Joseph Rowe | 1838 | |
John M. Hansford | 1838–1839 | 3rd |
David Spangler Kaufman | 1840–1841 | 4th |
5th | ||
Kenneth Lewis Anderson | 1841–1842 | 6th |
Nicholas Henry Darnell | 1842–1843 | 7th |
Richardson A. Scurry | 1843–1844 | 8th |
John M. Lewis | 1844–1846 | 9th |
State of Texas
Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas.
Name | Party | Term in Office | Legislative Sessions |
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William Crump | Democratic | 16 February 1846 – 3 March 1846 | 1st |
John Brown | Democratic | 3 March 1846 – 9 March 1846 | |
Edward Thomas Branch | Democratic | 9 March 1846 – 16 March 1846 | |
William Crump | Democratic | 16 March 1846 – 1 May 1846 | |
William H. Bourland | Democratic | 1 May 1846–before 13 May 1846 | |
Stephen W. Perkins | Democratic | before 13 May 1846 – 13 December 1847 | |
J. W. Henderson | Democratic | 13 December 1847 – 5 November 1849 | 2nd |
Charles G. Keenan | Democratic | 5 November 1849 – 3 November 1851 | 3rd |
David Catchings Dickson | Democratic | 3 November 1851 – 7 November 1853 | 4th |
Hardin Richard Runnels | Democratic | 7 November 1853 – 5 November 1855 | 5th |
Hamilton Prioleau Bee | Democratic | 5 November 1855 – 2 November 1857 | 6th |
William S. Taylor | Democratic | 2 November 1857 – 18 January 1858 | 7th |
Matthew Fielding Locke | Democratic | 18 January 1858 – 7 November 1859 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 7 November 1859 – 4 November 1861 | 8th |
Constantine W. Buckley | Democratic | 4 November 1861 – 7 December 1861 | 9th |
Nicholas Henry Darnell | Democratic | 7 December 1861 – 1862[1] | |
Vacant[1] | 1862–2 February 1863 | ||
Constantine W. Buckley | Democratic | 2 February 1863 – 2 November 1863 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 2 November 1863 – 6 August 1866 | 10th |
Nathaniel Macon Burford | Unionist[2] | 6 August 1866 – 25 April 1869[3] | 11th |
Vacant[3] | 25 April 1869 – 8 February 1870 | ||
Ira Hobart Evans | Republican | 8 February 1870 – 1871 | 12th |
William Henry Sinclair | Republican | 1871–14 January 1873 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 14 January 1873 – 13 January 1874 | 13th |
Guy Morrison Bryan | Democratic | 13 January 1874 – 1876 | 14th |
Thomas Reuben Bonner | Democratic | 1876–1879 | 15th |
John Hughes Cochran | Democratic | 1879–1881 | 16th |
George Robertson Reeves | Democratic | 1881–1883 | 17th |
Charles Reese Gibson | Democratic | 1883–1885 | 18th |
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster | Democratic | 1885–1887 | 19th |
George Cassety Pendleton | Democratic | 1887–1889 | 20th |
Frank P. Alexander | Democratic | 1889–1891 | 21st |
Robert Teague Milner | Democratic | 1891–1893 | 22nd |
John Hughes Cochran | Democratic | 1893–1895 | 23rd |
Thomas Slater Smith | Democratic | 1895–1897 | 24th |
L. Travis Dashiell | Democratic | 1897–1899 | 25th |
James S. Sherrill | Democratic | 1899–1901 | 26th |
Robert E. Prince | Democratic | 1901–1903 | 27th |
Pat Morris Neff | Democratic | 1903–1905 | 28th |
Francis William Seabury | Democratic | 1905–1907 | 29th |
Thomas Bell Love | Democratic | 1907–1909 | 30th |
Austin Milton Kennedy | Democratic | 1909 | 31st |
John Wesley Marshall | Democratic | 1909–1911 | |
Sam Rayburn | Democratic | 1911–1913 | 32nd |
Chester H. Terrell | Democratic | 1913–1915 | 33rd |
John William Woods | Democratic | 1915–1917 | 34th |
Franklin Oliver Fuller | Democratic | 1917–1919 | 35th |
Robert Ewing Thomason | Democratic | 1919–1921 | 36th |
Charles Graham Thomas | Democratic | 1921–1923 | 37th |
Richard Ernest Seagler | Democratic | 1923–1925 | 38th |
Lee Satterwhite | Democratic | 1925–1927 | 39th |
Robert Lee Bobbitt | Democratic | 1927–1929 | 40th |
Wingate S. Barron | Democratic | 1929–1931 | 41st |
Fred Hawthorne Minor | Democratic | 1931–1933 | 42nd |
Coke R. Stevenson | Democratic | 1933–1937 | 43rd |
44th | |||
Robert Wilburn Calvert | Democratic | 1937–1939 | 45th |
Robert Emmett Morse | Democratic | 1939–1941 | 46th |
Homer Lakerby Leonard | Democratic | 1941–1943 | 47th |
Price Daniel | Democratic | 1943–1945 | 48th |
Claud H. Gilmer | Democratic | 1945–1947 | 49th |
William O. Reed | Democratic | 1947–1949 | 50th |
Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr. | Democratic | 1949–1951 | 51st |
Reuben E. Senterfitt | Democratic | 1951–1955 | 52nd |
53rd | |||
Jim T. Lindsey | Democratic | 1955–1957 | 54th |
Waggoner Carr | Democratic | 1957–1961 | 55th |
56th | |||
Jimmy Turman | Democratic | 1961 | 57th |
Byron M. Tunnell | Democratic | 1963 | 58th |
Ben F. Barnes | Democratic | 1965–1969 | 59th |
60th | |||
Gus Franklin Mutscher | Democratic | 1969–1972 | 61st |
62nd | |||
Rayford Price | Democratic | 1972–1973[4] | |
Price Daniel, Jr. | Democratic | 1973–1975 | 63rd |
Bill W. Clayton | Democratic | 1975–1983 | 64th |
65th | |||
66th | |||
67th | |||
Gib Lewis | Democratic | 1983–1993 | 68th |
69th | |||
70th | |||
71st | |||
72nd | |||
Pete Laney | Democratic | 1993–2003 | 73rd |
74th | |||
75th | |||
76th | |||
77th | |||
Tom Craddick | Republican | 2003–2009 | 78th |
79th | |||
80th | |||
Joe Straus | Republican | 2009–present | 81st |
82nd | |||
83rd | |||
84th |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Darnell resigned some time in 1862 to fight in the Civil War, and Buckley was apparently not re-elected until the beginning of the First Called Session on 2 February 1863
- ↑ Two sources, one contemporary, say Burford was a Democrat:
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- ↑ Price served as Speaker for the 2nd through the 4th Called Sessions
References
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