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The speaker of the The states Firm of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Department 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House, and is simultaneously the trunk's presiding officer, the de facto leader of the body'due south bulk party, and the institution'due south administrative head.^[1] Speakers too perform various administrative and procedural functions, all in addition to representing their own congressional district. Given these several roles and responsibilities, the speaker normally does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the Firm from the majority political party. Neither does the speaker regularly participate in flooring debates. Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, afterwards the vice president and alee of the president pro tempore of the Senate.^[ii]

The House elects a new speaker past curl call vote when information technology first convenes after a general ballot for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes bandage (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker.^[1] If no candidate receives a majority vote, and then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected.^[three] The Constitution does not crave the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House, although every speaker thus far has been.^[four]

The current speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, was elected to a 4th (2nd sequent) term in part on Jan 3, 2021, the get-go twenty-four hour period of the 117th Congress. She is the merely woman to have served as speaker. Birthday, 54 individuals, from 23 of the fifty states, have served as speaker of the House. The number from each country are:

• 8: Massachusetts;
• 4: Kentucky and Virginia;
• 3: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas;
• Two: Maine, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina;
• One: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri, Due north Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin.

One speaker, James K. Polk, subsequently served every bit President of the The states, the only one to serve in both offices, and two speakers, Schuyler Colfax and John Nance Garner, later became Vice president. The longest serving speaker was Sam Rayburn – 17 years, 53 days. Elected 10 times, he led the Firm 3 times: from September 1940 to January 1947; January 1949 to Jan 1953; and January 1955 to November 1961. Tip O'Neill had the longest uninterrupted tenure as speaker – 9 years, 350 days. Elected five times, he led the House from January 1977 to January 1987. Theodore M. Pomeroy had the shortest tenure; elected speaker on March iii, 1869, he served one twenty-four hours.

List of speakers [edit]

The House has elected a speaker 126 times since 1789:^[iii] at the start of each of the 117 congresses, plus on x occasions when a vacancy arose during a Congress via death or resignation. Of the 54 people who accept served as speaker of the Business firm over the past 232 years, 32 served multiple terms, and seven of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John Due west. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph West. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi. Altogether, at that place have been 63 occasions on which a new speaker took role. Every speaker of the House has been a member of a political party or faction; the number affiliated with each is:

 Autonomous – 22;^[a]  Republican – sixteen;  Democratic-Republican – 6;^[b]  Jacksonian – 3;^[a]  Whig – 3;  Federalist – two;  Pro-Administration – 2;^[c]  Adams Republican – 1;^[b]  American – 1;  Anti-Assistants – 1.^[c]

As of February 2022, there are four living one-time speakers of the Firm: Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan. Nancy Pelosi was also among this group, prior to reassuming the office in January 2019.

List of speakers of the U.s.a. House of Representatives

Congress	Term	Portrait	Name	Party		District[d]
1st	Apr i, 1789 – March 4, 1791		Frederick Muhlenberg		Pro-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large
2nd	October 24, 1791 – March iv, 1793		Jonathan Trumbull Jr.		Pro-Administration	Connecticut at-big
3rd	December 2, 1793[e] – March 4, 1795		Frederick Muhlenberg		Anti-Assistants	Pennsylvania at-big
quaternary	December seven, 1795 – March 4, 1797		Jonathan Dayton		Federalist	New Jersey at-large
5th	May 15, 1797 – March four, 1799
6th	Dec 2, 1799[eastward] – March iv, 1801		Theodore Sedgwick		Federalist	Massachusetts one
7th	December seven, 1801 – March 4, 1803		Nathaniel Macon		Autonomous- Republican	Due north Carolina v
8th	October 17, 1803 – March 4, 1805					North Carolina 6
9th	December 2, 1805[e] – March four, 1807
tenth	October 26, 1807 – March 4, 1809		Joseph Bradley Varnum		Democratic- Republican	Massachusetts 4
11th	May 22, 1809[e] – March 4, 1811
12th	November four, 1811 – March four, 1813		Henry Clay		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky v
13th	May 24, 1813 – January nineteen, 1814[f]					Kentucky ii
13th [g]	Jan nineteen, 1814 – March iv, 1815		Langdon Cheves		Democratic- Republican	South Carolina ane
14th	Dec 4, 1815 – March 4, 1817		Henry Clay		Autonomous- Republican	Kentucky 2
15th	Dec 1, 1817 – March 4, 1819
16th	December 6, 1819 – October 28, 1820[f]
16th [g]	November fifteen, 1820[e] – March four, 1821		John West. Taylor		Autonomous- Republican	New York 11
17th	December four, 1821[e] – March four, 1823		Philip P. Barbour		Autonomous- Republican	Virginia eleven
18th	December 1, 1823 – March six, 1825[f]		Henry Clay		Autonomous- Republican	Kentucky 3
19th	Dec 5, 1825[e] – March four, 1827		John W. Taylor		Adams Republican	New York 17
20th	Dec three, 1827 – March 4, 1829		Andrew Stevenson		Jacksonian	Virginia 9
21st	December 7, 1829 – March 4, 1831
22nd	December five, 1831 – March 4, 1833
23rd	December 2, 1833 – June 2, 1834[f]					Virginia eleven
23rd [g]	June ii, 1834[eastward] – March 4, 1835		John Bell		Jacksonian	Tennessee vii
24th	December 7, 1835 – March iv, 1837		James K. Polk		Jacksonian	Tennessee nine
25th	September 4, 1837 – March 4, 1839				Democratic
26th	Dec 16, 1839[e] – March iv, 1841		Robert M. T. Hunter		Whig	Virginia 9
27th	May 31, 1841 – March iv, 1843		John White		Whig	Kentucky 9
28th	December 4, 1843 – March 4, 1845		John Winston Jones		Autonomous	Virginia 6
29th	December 1, 1845 – March four, 1847		John Wesley Davis		Democratic	Indiana 6
30th	Dec 6, 1847[due east] – March 4, 1849		Robert Charles Winthrop		Whig	Massachusetts 1
31st	Dec 22, 1849[e] – March 4, 1851		Howell Cobb		Autonomous	Georgia six
32nd	December one, 1851 – March 4, 1853		Linn Boyd		Democratic	Kentucky 1
33rd	December 5, 1853 – March 4, 1855
34th	February 2, 1856[eastward] – March four, 1857		Nathaniel P. Banks		American	Massachusetts vii
35th	December 7, 1857 – March four, 1859		James Lawrence Orr		Autonomous	Due south Carolina 5
36th	February 1, 1860[e] – March 4, 1861		William Pennington		Republican	New Jersey v
37th	July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863		Galusha A. Grow		Republican	Pennsylvania 14
38th	December 7, 1863 – March 4, 1865		Schuyler Colfax		Republican	Indiana 9
39th	December four, 1865 – March four, 1867
40th	March 4, 1867 – March iii, 1869[f]
40th [thousand]	March iii–4, 1869		Theodore M. Pomeroy		Republican	New York 24
41st	March four, 1869 – March 4, 1871		James G. Blaine		Republican	Maine three
42nd	March four, 1871 – March four, 1873
43rd	March iv, 1873 – March 4, 1875
44th	December 6, 1875 – August xix, 1876[h]		Michael C. Kerr		Democratic	Indiana 3
44th [yard]	Dec iv, 1876 – March four, 1877		Samuel J. Randall		Democratic	Pennsylvania 3
45th	October 15, 1877 – March four, 1879
46th	March 18, 1879 – March 4, 1881
47th	December v, 1881 – March 4, 1883		J. Warren Keifer		Republican	Ohio eight
48th	Dec 3, 1883 – March 4, 1885		John G. Carlisle		Democratic	Kentucky 6
49th	December seven, 1885 – March 4, 1887
50th	December 5, 1887 – March 4, 1889
51st	Dec ii, 1889 – March 4, 1891		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine one
52nd	December 8, 1891 – March iv, 1893		Charles Frederick Crisp		Autonomous	Georgia 3
53rd	Baronial 7, 1893 – March 4, 1895
54th	December ii, 1895 – March iv, 1897		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine 1
55th	March 15, 1897 – March 4, 1899
56th	Dec 4, 1899 – March four, 1901		David B. Henderson		Republican	Iowa 3
57th	Dec 2, 1901 – March 4, 1903
58th	November ix, 1903 – March 4, 1905		Joseph Gurney Cannon		Republican	Illinois 18
59th	December iv, 1905 – March 4, 1907
60th	Dec 2, 1907 – March 4, 1909
61st	March 15, 1909 – March 4, 1911
62nd	April 4, 1911 – March 4, 1913		Gnaw Clark		Democratic	Missouri 9
63rd	Apr vii, 1913 – March iv, 1915
64th	December six, 1915 – March iv, 1917
65th	Apr 2, 1917 – March 4, 1919
66th	May 19, 1919 – March 4, 1921		Frederick H. Gillett		Republican	Massachusetts 2
67th	Apr eleven, 1921 – March 4, 1923
68th	December five, 1923[eastward] – March 4, 1925
69th	December vii, 1925 – March four, 1927		Nicholas Longworth		Republican	Ohio i
70th	December v, 1927 – March four, 1929
71st	April 15, 1929 – March 4, 1931
72nd	December 7, 1931 – March 4, 1933		John Nance Garner		Democratic	Texas 15
73rd	March ix, 1933 – August 19, 1934[h]		Henry Thomas Rainey		Democratic	Illinois 20
74th	January 3, 1935 – June 4, 1936[h]		Jo Byrns		Democratic	Tennessee 5
74th [g]	June 4, 1936 – January iii, 1937		William B. Bankhead		Democratic	Alabama vii
75th	January 5, 1937 – January 3, 1939
76th	January 3, 1939 – September 15, 1940[h]
76th [1000]	September sixteen, 1940 – January three, 1941		Sam Rayburn		Autonomous	Texas 4
77th	January three, 1941 – January 3, 1943
78th	January 6, 1943 – January 3, 1945
79th	January three, 1945 – January iii, 1947
80th	January three, 1947 – January three, 1949		Joseph W. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts 14
81st	January 3, 1949 – Jan three, 1951		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas 4
82nd	January three, 1951 – January 3, 1953
83rd	January 3, 1953 – Jan three, 1955		Joseph West. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts 14
84th	January 3, 1955 – Jan 3, 1957		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas iv
85th	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959
86th	Jan 7, 1959 – January three, 1961
87th	January 3, 1961 – November 16, 1961[h]
87th [g]	January 10, 1962 – January 3, 1963		John W. McCormack		Democratic	Massachusetts 12
88th	January 9, 1963 – January 3, 1965					Massachusetts 9
89th	Jan four, 1965 – January 3, 1967
90th	Jan 10, 1967 – January 3, 1969
91st	Jan 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971
92nd	January 21, 1971 – January 3, 1973		Carl Albert		Democratic	Oklahoma 3
93rd	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975
94th	January 14, 1975 – January iii, 1977
95th	Jan 4, 1977 – January 3, 1979		Tip O'Neill		Democratic	Massachusetts viii
96th	January fifteen, 1979 – January 3, 1981
97th	Jan 5, 1981 – Jan 3, 1983
98th	January 3, 1983 – Jan 3, 1985
99th	January three, 1985 – January 3, 1987
100th	Jan 6, 1987 – January 3, 1989		Jim Wright		Autonomous	Texas 12
101st	January 3, 1989 – June 6, 1989[f]
101st [g]	June vi, 1989 – January 3, 1991		Tom Foley		Democratic	Washington v
102nd	January 3, 1991 – January three, 1993
103rd	Jan v, 1993 – January 3, 1995
104th	January 4, 1995 – January three, 1997		Newt Gingrich		Republican	Georgia six
105th	January 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999[f]
106th	January 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001		Dennis Hastert		Republican	Illinois fourteen
107th	January iii, 2001 – January three, 2003
108th	Jan 7, 2003 – January iii, 2005
109th	January 3, 2005 – January three, 2007
110th	January iv, 2007 – January 3, 2009		Nancy Pelosi		Autonomous	California 8
111th	January vi, 2009 – January 3, 2011
112th	Jan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013		John Boehner		Republican	Ohio viii
113th	January iii, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
114th	Jan vi, 2015 – October 29, 2015[f]
114th [g]	October 29, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017		Paul Ryan		Republican	Wisconsin 1
115th	January 3, 2017 – January iii, 2019
116th	January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2021		Nancy Pelosi		Democratic	California 12
117th	January three, 2021 – present
References:[5] [vi]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} During James M. Polk's tenure as speaker the Jacksonian bloc amalgamated into the modern Democratic Party.
2. ^ ^{a b} John Taylor served as speaker twice in the 1820s; initially he was as a member of the Autonomous–Republican Party, and later, when the party began to fracture, he sided with its pro–Adams faction.
3. ^ ^{a b} Frederick Muhlenberg served as speaker twice in the 1790s, before political factions coalesced into formal parties; initially he identified with the pro–administration faction, but afterward he aligned himself with the anti–administration faction.
4. ^ The commune listed is the commune the speaker represented at the time they were in office, which may be different in different Congresses due to redistricting.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f k h i j grand l m n} Multi-election election.
6. ^ ^{a b c d due east f yard h} Resigned from office and from Congress.
7. ^ ^{a b c d due east f g h i j} Intra-term special election.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e} Died in office.

Timeline [edit]

Speakers by time in office [edit]

The length of time given below is based on the difference betwixt dates; if counted past number of agenda days all the figures would be one greater. Also, as many speakers were elected multiple times, and to terms that were, in several instances, not sequent, the length of time given for each speaker measures their cumulative length of incumbency as speaker. Further, time subsequently banishment of one Congress but before the convening of the next Congress is not counted. For example, Nathaniel Macon was speaker in both the 8th and ninth Congresses, simply the eight-month gap between the ii Congresses is non counted toward his service. The exact dates of service for each individual speaker is shown in the Term of service column of the above tabular array.

Official seal of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Sam Rayburn, longest serving speaker of the House,
17 years, 53 days (cumulative)

Tip O'Neill, longest uninterrupted tenure of function,
nine years, 350 days

Rank	Proper name	Time in office	TE	Year(s) in which elected
i	Sam Rayburn	17 years, 53 days	x	1940; 1941; 1943; 1945; 1949; 1951; 1955; 1957; 1959; 1961
2	Henry Clay	ten years, 196 days	6	1811; 1813; 1815; 1817; 1819; 1823
3	Tip O'Neill	9 years, 350 days	five	1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985
iv	John W. McCormack	8 years, 344 days	5	1962; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1969
5	Dennis Hastert	7 years, 359 days	iv	1999; 2001; 2003; 2005
6	Nancy Pelosi	7 years, 48 days	4	2007; 2009; 2019; 2021
7	Gnaw Clark	half-dozen years, 357 days	4	1911; 1913; 1915; 1917
8	Carl Albert	5 years, 337 days	iii	1971; 1973; 1975
9	Joseph Gurney Cannon	5 years, 285 days	four	1903; 1905; 1907; 1909
10	Tom Foley	five years, 209 days	three	1989; 1991; 1993
11	James M. Blaine	5 years, 93 days	3	1869; 1871; 1873
12	Frederick H. Gillett	iv years, 341 days	3	1919; 1921; 1923
13	John Boehner	4 years, 297 days	3	2011; 2013; 2015
fourteen	Schuyler Colfax	4 years, 176 days	3	1863; 1865; 1867
15	Thomas Brackett Reed	iv years, 172 days	iii	1889; 1895; 1897
xvi	Nicholas Longworth	4 years, 133 days	three	1925; 1927; 1929
17	William B. Bankhead	iv years, 102 days	3	1936; 1937; 1939
18	Andrew Stevenson	4 years, 83 days	iv	1827; 1829; 1831; 1833
19	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	4 years	ii	1947; 1953
20	Newt Gingrich	3 years, 361 days	2	1995; 1997
21	Nathaniel Macon	3 years, 317 days	three	1801; 1803; 1805
22	John 1000. Carlisle	3 years, 267 days	iii	1883; 1885; 1887
23	Samuel J. Randall	3 years, 215 days	three	1876; 1877; 1879
24	Paul Ryan	3 years, 66 days	2	2015; 2017
25	Frederick Muhlenberg	three years, 64 days	two	1789; 1793
26	Joseph Bradley Varnum	iii years, 49 days	2	1807; 1809
27	Jonathan Dayton	3 years, xiv days	2	1795; 1797
28	Charles Frederick Crisp	2 years, 295 days	2	1891; 1893
29	James Chiliad. Polk	two years, 268 days	2	1835; 1837
30 (tie)	Linn Boyd	2 years, 182 days	ii	1851; 1853
	David B. Henderson	2 years, 182 days	ii	1899; 1901
32	Jim Wright	ii years, 151 days	2	1987; 1989
33	John White	1 year, 277 days	i	1841
34	Galusha A. Grow	1 year, 243 days	1	1861
35	John W. Taylor	ane year, 198 days	2	1820; 1825
36	Henry Thomas Rainey	1 year, 163 days	1	1933
37	Joseph Due west. Byrns Sr.	one year, 153 days	1	1935
38	Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	1 year, 131 days	ane	1791
39	John Wesley Davis	1 year, 93 days	one	1845
twoscore	Theodore Sedgwick	1 yr, 92 days	1	1799
41 (tie)	Philip P. Barbour	1 year, 90 days	1	1821
	John Winston Jones	i year, 90 days	1	1843
43	J. Warren Keifer	1 year, 89 days	1	1881
44	Robert Charles Winthrop	i year, 88 days	one	1847
45 (tie)	James Lawrence Orr	one year, 87 days	1	1857
	John Nance Garner	ane year, 87 days	one	1931
47	Robert K. T. Hunter	ane year, 78 days	1	1839
48	Howell Cobb	1 twelvemonth, 72 days	ane	1849
49	Langdon Cheves	ane yr, 44 days	1	1814
50	William Pennington	one yr, 31 days	1	1860
51	Nathaniel P. Banks	ane yr, xxx days	1	1856
52	John Bell	275 days	1	1834
53	Michael C. Kerr	257 days	one	1875
54	Theodore M. Pomeroy	1 day	1	1869

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Forte, David F. "Essays on Commodity I: Speaker of the House". Heritage Guide to The Constitution. Heritage Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
2. ^ Relyea, Harold C. (August 5, 2005). "Continuity of Government: Current Federal Arrangements and the Future" (PDF). CRS Report for Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress. pp. 2–4. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Speaker Elections Decided past Multiple Ballots". history.house.gov. Us House of Representatives. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
4. ^ Heitshusen, Valerie; Beth, Richard South. (Jan 4, 2019). "Speakers of the Firm: Elections, 1913–2019" (PDF). RL30857. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
5. ^ "List of Speakers of the House". Washington, D.C.: Part of the Historian, U.s. House of Representatives. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
6. ^ Speakers of the House of Representatives, 1789-2021. Amenia, New York: Grey House Publishing. 2021. ISBN978-1-64265-834-7.

 This commodity incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the U.Southward. federal government.

• "A Century of Code for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875". memory.loc.gov. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
• "Congressional Record (Jump Edition)". govinfo.gov. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office.
• "List of Speakers of the House". Washington, D.C.: Office of the Historian, The states House of Representatives.

Further reading [edit]

• Follett, Mary Parker (1909) [Commencement edition, 1896]. The speaker of the House of Representatives. New York, New York: Longmans, Greene, and Company. Retrieved March 18, 2019 – via Internet Archive, digitized in 2007.
• Business firm Document 108–204 – The Cannon Centenary Briefing: The Changing Nature of the Speakership

External links [edit]

• Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives