List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives

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List of individuals who have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

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The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The Speaker is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution.

List of Speakers

Below is a list of individuals who have served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives:

18th Century

• Frederick Muhlenberg (1789–1791)
• Jonathan Trumbull Jr. (1791–1793)
• Frederick Muhlenberg (1793–1795)
• Jonathan Dayton (1795–1799)
• Theodore Sedgwick (1799–1801)

19th Century

• Nathaniel Macon (1801–1807)
• Joseph B. Varnum (1807–1811)
• Henry Clay (1811–1814, 1815–1820, 1823–1825)
• Langdon Cheves (1814–1815)
• John W. Taylor (1820–1821, 1825–1827)
• Philip P. Barbour (1821–1823)
• Andrew Stevenson (1827–1834)
• John Bell (1834–1835)
• James K. Polk (1835–1839)
• Robert M. T. Hunter (1839–1841)
• John White (1841–1843)
• John Winston Jones (1843–1845)
• John Wesley Davis (1845–1847)
• Robert Charles Winthrop (1847–1849)
• Howell Cobb (1849–1851)
• Linn Boyd (1851–1855)
• Nathaniel P. Banks (1856–1857)
• James Lawrence Orr (1857–1859)
• William Pennington (1859–1861)
• Galusha A. Grow (1861–1863)
• Schuyler Colfax (1863–1869)
• Theodore M. Pomeroy (1869)
• James G. Blaine (1869–1875)
• Michael C. Kerr (1875–1876)
• Samuel J. Randall (1876–1881)
• J. Warren Keifer (1881–1883)
• John G. Carlisle (1883–1889)
• Thomas Brackett Reed (1889–1891, 1895–1899)
• Charles Frederick Crisp (1891–1895)
• David B. Henderson (1899–1903)

20th Century

• Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903–1911)
• Champ Clark (1911–1919)
• Frederick H. Gillett (1919–1925)
• Nicholas Longworth (1925–1931)
• John Nance Garner (1931–1933)
• Henry Thomas Rainey (1933–1934)
• Joseph W. Byrns (1935–1936)
• William B. Bankhead (1936–1940)
• Sam Rayburn (1940–1947, 1949–1953, 1955–1961)
• Joseph William Martin Jr. (1947–1949, 1953–1955)
• John W. McCormack (1962–1971)
• Carl Albert (1971–1977)
• Tip O'Neill (1977–1987)
• Jim Wright (1987–1989)
• Tom Foley (1989–1995)
• Newt Gingrich (1995–1999)
• Dennis Hastert (1999–2007)

21st Century

• Nancy Pelosi (2007–2011, 2019–2023)
• John Boehner (2011–2015)
• Paul Ryan (2015–2019)
• Kevin McCarthy (2023–present)

Related Pages

• United States House of Representatives
• United States Senate
• President of the United States
• Vice President of the United States
• United States presidential line of succession
• List of Presidents of the United States
• List of Vice Presidents of the United States

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