List of Speakers of the Florida House of Representatives
Lists of the Speaker

List of Speakers of the Florida House of Representatives

Section Title: Lists of the Speaker
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Picture	Speaker	Session	Start of service	End of service	Party	County	Residence

1838 Constitution

Hugh Archer	1st	June 23, 1845	July 26, 1845	Leon	Tallahassee

Isaac Ferguson, Jr.	Adj.	November 17, 1845	December 29, 1845	Democratic	Gadsden	Quincy

Robert Brown	2nd	November 23, 1846	January 6, 1847	Democratic	Columbia

Joseph B. Lancaster	3rd	November 27, 1847	December 23, 1847	Whig	Duval	Jacksonville

John Chain	3rd	December 23, 1847	January 8, 1848	Santa Rosa	Milton

-	Benjamin A. Putnam	4th	November 27, 1848	January 13, 1849	Whig	St. Johns	St. Augustine

Hugh Archer	5th	November 25, 1850	January 24, 1851	Whig	Leon	Tallahassee

-	Abraham K. Allison	6th	November 22, 1852	January 14, 1853	Democratic	Gadsden	Quincy

William F. Russell	7th	November 27, 1854	January 13, 1855	St. Lucie	Fort Pierce

Philip Dell	Adj.	November 26, 1855	December 15, 1855	Democratic	Alachua	Newnansville

Hamlin Valentine Snell	8th	November 24, 1856	December 27, 1856	Democratic	Manatee	Manatee

-	John B. Galbraith	9th	November 28, 1858	January 15, 1859	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

John B. Galbraith	Adj.	November 28, 1858	December 22, 1858	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

John B. Galbraith	10th	November 26, 1860	February 14, 1861	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

Samuel B. Love	11th	November 18, 1861	December 17, 1861	Democratic	Gadsden	Quincy

Thomas Jefferson Eppes	12th	November 17, 1862	December 15, 1862	Democratic	Franklin	Apalachicola

Thomas Jefferson Eppes	12th	November 16, 1863	December 4, 1863	Democratic	Franklin	Apalachicola

Philip Dell	13th	November 21, 1864	December 7, 1864	Democratic	Alachua	Newnansville

Joseph John Williams	14th	December 18, 1865	January 16, 1866	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

Joseph John Williams	14th (2nd)	November 14, 1866	December 14, 1866	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

1868 Constitution

William W. Moore	1st	June 8, 1868	August 6, 1868	Republican	Columbia	Wellborn

William W. Moore	Extra.	November 3, 1868	November 7, 1868	Republican	Columbia	Wellborn

-	Marcellus L. Stearns	2nd	January 5, 1869	February 1, 1869	Republican	Gadsden	Quincy

William W. Moore	Extra.	June 8, 1869	June 24, 1869	Republican	Columbia	Wellborn

-	Simon B. Conover	1873	1873	Republican	Leon	Tallahassee

-	Malachi Martin	1874	1874	Republican	Gadsden	Chattahoochee

Thomas Hannah	1875	1875	Democratic	Washington	Vernon

-	G.G. McWhorter	1877	1877	Democratic	Santa Rosa	Milton

-	Charles Dougherty	1879	1879	Democratic	Volusia	Port Orange

J.J. Harris	1881	1881	Democratic	Orange	Tuscawilla

-	Charles Dougherty	1883	1883	Democratic	Volusia	Port Orange

-	Robert Wyche Davis	1885	1885	Democratic	Clay	Green Cove Springs

1885 Constitution

-	Samuel Pasco	1887	May 23, 1887	Democratic	Jefferson	Monticello

George H. Browne	1887	1887	Democratic	Orange	Oviedo

-	John L. Gaskins	1889	1893	Democratic	Bradford	Starke

-	William Sherman Jennings	1895	1895	Democratic	Hernando	Brooksville

-	Dannitte Hill Mays	1897	1897	Democratic	Jefferson	Monticello

Robert McNamee	1899	1899	Democratic	Lake	Leesburg

John W. Watson	1901	1901	Democratic	Osceola	Kissimmee

-	Cromwell Gibbons	1903	1903	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

-	Albert W. Gilchrist	1905	1905	Democratic	DeSoto	Punta Gorda

-	Eugene S. Matthews	1907	1907	Democratic	Bradford	Starke

-	Ion Farris	1909	1909	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

-	Thomas Albert Jennings	1911	1911	Democratic	Escambia	Pensacola

-	Ion Farris	1913	1913	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

-	Cary A. Hardee	1915	1917	Democratic	Suwannee	Live Oak

George H. Wilder	1918	1919	Democratic	Hillsborough	Plant City

Frank E. Jennings	1921	1921	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

L.D. Edge	1923	1923	Democratic	Lake	Groveland

A.Y. Milam	1925	1925	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

-	Fred Henry Davis	1927	1927	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

Samuel W. Getzen	1929	1929	Democratic	Sumter	Bushnell

E. Clay Lewis, Jr.	1931	1931	Democratic	Gulf	Port St. Joe

Peter Tomasello, Jr.	1933	1933	Democratic	Okeechobee	Okeechobee

W.B. Bishop	1935	1935	Democratic	Jefferson	Nash

W. McL. Christie	1937	1937	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

G. Pierce Wood	1939	1939	Democratic	Liberty	Wilma

-	Daniel T. McCarty	1941	1941	Democratic	St. Lucie	Fort Pierce

Richard H. Simpson	1943	1943	Democratic	Jefferson	Monticello

Evans Crary	1945	1945	Democratic	Martin	Stewart

-	Tom Beasley	1947	1947	Democratic	Walton	DeFuniak Springs

Perry E. Murray	1949	1949	Democratic	Polk	Frostproof

Elmer B. Elliott	1951	1951	Democratic	Palm Beach	Pahokee

-	C. Farris Bryant	1953	1954	Democratic	Marion	Ocala

Thomas E. David	1955	Democratic	Broward	Hollywood

-	Doyle Conner	1958	1960	Democratic	Bradford	Starke

-	Tom Beasley	1959	1959	Democratic	Walton	DeFuniak Springs

-	William V. Chappell, Jr.	1961	1963	Democratic	Marion	Ocala

-	Mallory Horne	1963	1965	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

-	E. C. Rowell	1965	1967	Democratic	Sumter	Wildwood

-	Ralph Turlington	1967	1969	Democratic	Alachua	Gainesville

1968 Constitution

-	Frederick H. Schultz	1969	1970	Democratic	Duval	Jacksonville

-	Richard A. Pettigrew	1971	1972	Democratic	Dade	Miami

-	T. Terrell Sessums	1973	1974	Democratic	Hillsborough	Tampa

-	Donald L. Tucker	1975	1978	Democratic	Leon	Tallahassee

-	J. Hyatt Brown	1978	1980	Democratic	Volusia	Daytona Beach

-	Ralph Haben	1981	1982	Democratic	Manatee	Palmetto

-	H. Lee Moffitt	1983	1984	Democratic	Hillsborough	Tampa

-	James Harold Thompson	1985	1986	Democratic	Gadsden	Quincy

-	Jon L. Mills	1987	1988	Democratic	Alachua	Gainesville

-	Tom Gustafson	1988	1990	Democratic	Broward	Fort Lauderdale

-	T. K. Wetherell	1991	1992	Democratic	Volusia	Daytona Beach

-	Bolley Johnson	1993	1994	Democratic	Santa Rosa	Milton

-	Peter Rudy Wallace	1995	1996	Democratic	Pinellas	St. Petersburg

-	Daniel Webster	November 19, 1996	November 17, 1998	Republican	Orange	Orlando

-	John Thrasher	November 17, 1998	November 21, 2000	Republican	Duval	Orange Park

-	Tom Feeney	November 21, 2000	November 19, 2002	Republican	Seminole	Oviedo

-	Johnnie Byrd	November 19, 2002	November 16, 2004	Republican	Hillsborough	Plant City

-	Allan Bense	November 16, 2004	November 21, 2006	Republican	Bay	Panama City

-	Marco Rubio	November 21, 2006	November 18, 2008	Republican	Miami-Dade	West Miami

-	Ray Sansom	November 18, 2008	February 2, 2009 (resigned)	Republican	Okaloosa	Destin

-	Larry Cretul	March 3, 2009	November 16, 2010	Republican	Marion	Ocala

Dean Cannon.jpeg	Dean Cannon	November 16, 2010	November 20, 2012	Republican	Orange	Winter Park

-	Will Weatherford	November 20, 2012	November 18, 2014	Republican	Pasco	Wesley Chapel

-	Steve Crisafulli	November 18, 2014	November 22, 2016	Republican	Brevard	Merritt Island

Richard Corcoran.jpeg	Richard Corcoran	November 22, 2016	November 20, 2018	Republican	Pasco	Land O' Lakes

-	José R. Oliva	November 20, 2018	Republican	Miami-Dade	Miami Lakes

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