The office of Speaker of the
House has been occupied by wealthy and powerful men. For reference, I have compiled a list of those men along with the Session of Congress they served in and the State they represented.
Over the next few weeks, I will begin to build biography nodes for each Speaker of the House. Any assistance would be appriciated. As has been requested, I will be adding dates of service to each member as I updated their biographies.
1st, 3rd
Frederick A.C. Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania
2nd
Jonathan Trumbull, Connecticut
4th, 5th
Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey
6th
Theodore Sedgwick, Massachusetts
7th – 9th
Nathaniel Macon, North Carolina
10th, 11th
Joseph B. Varnum, Massachusetts
12th – 16th, 18th,
Henry Clay, Kentucky
13th
Langdon Cheves, South Carolina
16th, 19th,
John W. Taylor, New York
17th
Philip P. Barbour, Virginia
20th - 22nd
Andrew Stevenson, Virginia
23rd
John Bell, Tennessee
24th, 25th
James K. Polk, Tennessee
26th
Robert M.T. Hunter, Virginia
27th
John White, Kentucky
28th
John W. Jones, Virginia
29th
John W. Davis, Indiana
30th
Robert C. Winthrop, Massachusetts
31st
Howell Cobb, Georgia
32nd, 33rd
Linn Boyd, Kentucky
34th
Nathaniel P. Banks, Massachusetts
35th
James L. Orr, South Carolina
36th
William Pennington, New Jersey
37th
Galusha A. Grow, Pennsylvania
38th - 40th
Schuyler Colfax, Indiana
40th
Theodore M. Pomeroy, New York
41st - 43rd
James G. Blaine, Maine
44th
Michael C. Kerr, Indiana
44th - 46th
Samuel J. Randall, Pennsylvania
47th
J. Warren Keifer, Ohio
48th - 50th
John G. Carlisle, Kentucky
51st, 54th, 55th
Thomas B. Reed, Maine
52nd, 53rd
Charles F. Crisp, Georgia
56th, 57th
David B. Henderson, Iowa
58th - 61st
Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois
62nd - 65th
James Beauchamp Clark, Missouri
66th - 68th
Frederick H. Gillett, Massachusetts
69th - 71st
Nicholas Longworth, Ohio
72nd
John N. Garner, Texas
73rd
Henry T. Rainey, Illinois
74th
Joseph W. Byrns, Tennessee
74th - 76th
William B. Bankhead, Alabama
76th - 79th
Sam Rayburn, Texas
80th, 83rd
Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts
81st, 82nd, 84th - 87th
Sam Rayburn, Texas
87th - 91st
John W. McCormack, Massachusetts
92nd - 94th
Carl B. Albert, Oklahoma
95th - 99th
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Massachusetts
100th, 101st
James C. Wright, Jr., Texas
101st - 103rd
Thomas S. Foley, Washington
104th - 105th
Newt Gingrich, Georgia
106th - 109th
J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois