List of Speakers of the California State Assembly
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The First California Legislature was nonpartisan. Estee was also a Republican, but he was elected to the term in which he was Speaker as an independent.

List of Speakers of the California State Assembly

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: The First California Legislature was nonpartisan. Estee was also a Republican, but he was elected to the term in which he was Speaker as an independent.

Speaker	Portrait	District	Party	Term of service

1. Thomas J. White	Sacramento	Unaffiliated	December 1849–February 1850

2. John Bigler	John Bigler, 2nd Speaker (1850–1851)	Sacramento	Democratic	February 1850–May 1851

3. Richard P. Hammond	7	Democratic	January 1852–May 1852

4. Isaac B. Wall	6	Democratic	January 1853–May 1853

5. Charles S. Fairfax	15	Democratic	January 1854–May 1854

6. William W. Stow	3	Whig	January 1855–May 1855

7. James T. Farley	James Farley, 7th Speaker (1856)	19	American	January 1856–April 1856

8. Elwood T. Beatty	19	Democratic	January 1857–April 1857

9. Ninian E. Whiteside	15	Democratic	January 1858–April 1858

10. William C. Stratton	17	Democratic	January 1859–April 1859

11. Phillip Moore	16	Democratic	January 1860–April 1860

12. R. Burnell	19	Douglas Democratic	January 1861–May 1861

13. George Barstow	8	Republican	January 1862–May 1862

14. Tim N. Machin	National Union	January 1863–April 1863

15. William H. Sears	21	National Union	December 1863–April 1864

16. John Yule	20	National Union	December 1865–April 1866

17. Caius T. Ryland	4	Democratic	December 1867–March 1868

18. George H. Rogers	8	Democratic	December 1869–April 1870

19. Thomas Bowles Shannon	8	Republican	December 1871–April 1872

20. Morris M. Estee	8	Independent	December 1873–March 1874

21. Gideon J. Carpenter	23	Democratic	December 1875–April 1876

22. Campbell Polson Berry	Campbell Berry, 22nd Speaker (1877–1878)	25	Democratic	December 1877–April 1878

23. Jabez F. Cowdery	13	Republican	January 1880–April 1880

24. William H. Parks	25	Republican	January 1881–May 1881

25. Hugh M. La Rue	18	Democratic	January 1883–May 1884

– William H. Parks	25	Republican	January 1885–September 1886

26. William H. Jordan	Republican	January 1887–March 1887

27. Robert Howe	25	Democratic	January 1889–March 1889

28. Frank Leslie Coombs	-	Republican	January 1891–March 1891

29. Frank H. Gould	Democratic	January 1893–March 1893

30. John C. Lynch	8	Republican	January 1895–March 1895

– Frank Leslie Coombs	-	Republican	January 1897–March 1897

31. Howard E. Wright	Republican	January 1899

32. Alden Anderson	-	Republican	January 1899–February 1900

33. Cornelius W. Pendleton	Republican	January 1901–March 1901

34. Arthur G. Fisk	Arthur Fisk, 34th Speaker (1903)	Republican	January 1903–March 1903

35. Frank C. Prescott	Republican	January 1905–June 1906

36. Robert L. Beardslee Sr.	Republican	January 1907–November 1907

37. Philip A. Stanton	Republican	January 1909–October 1910

38. Arthur Hathaway Hewitt	Republican	January 1911–December 1911

39. C. C. Young	Republican, Progressive	January 1913–April 1917

40. Henry W. Wright	Republican	January 1919–April 1921

41. Frank F. Merriam	Republican	January 1923–October 1926

42. Edgar C. Levey	Edgar Levey, 42nd Speaker (1927–1931)	Republican	January 1927–May 1931

43. Walter J. Little	Republican	January 1933–July 1933

44. Forsythe Charles Clowdsley	Democratic	September 1934 (extraordinary session)

45. Edward Craig	Republican	January 1935–May 1936

46. William Moseley Jones	William Jones, 46th Speaker (1937–1938)	Democratic	January 1937–March 1938

47. Paul Peek	Democratic	January 1939–June 1939

48. Gordon Hickman Garland	Gordon Garland, 48th Speaker (1940–1942)	Democratic	January 1940–January 1942

49. Charles W. Lyon	Charles Lyon, 49th Speaker (1943–1946)	59	Republican	January 1943–July 1946

50. Sam L. Collins	Sam L. Collins, 50th Speaker (1947-1952)	75	Republican	January 1947–August 1952

51. James W. Silliman	34	Republican	January 1953–April 1954

52. Luther H. Lincoln	15	Republican	January 1955–April 1958

53. Ralph M. Brown	30	Democratic	January 1959–September 1961

54. Jesse M. Unruh	Jesse M. Unruh, 54th Speaker (1961–1969)	65	Democratic	September 1961–January 1969

55. Robert T. Monagan	12	Republican	January 1969–September 1970

56. Bob Moretti	42	Democratic	January 1971–June 1974

57. Leo T. McCarthy	19/18	Democratic	June 1974–November 1980

58. Willie Brown	Willie Brown, 58th Speaker (1980–1995)	17/13	Democratic	December 2, 1980–June 5, 1995

59. Doris Allen	67	Republican	June 5, 1995–September 14, 1995

60. Brian Setencich	30	Republican	September 14, 1995–January 4, 1996

61. Curt Pringle	Curt Pringle, 61st Speaker (1996)	68	Republican	January 4, 1996–November 30, 1996

62. Cruz M. Bustamante	Cruz Bustamante, 62nd Speaker (1996–1998)	31	Democratic	December 2, 1996–February 26, 1998

63. Antonio Villaraigosa	-	45	Democratic	February 26, 1998–April 13, 2000

64. Robert M. Hertzberg	-	40	Democratic	April 13, 2000–February 6, 2002

65. Herb J. Wesson, Jr.	-	47	Democratic	February 6, 2002–February 9, 2004

66. Fabian Núñez	Fabian Núñez, 66th Speaker (2004–2008)	46	Democratic	February 9, 2004–May 13, 2008

67. Karen Bass	-	47	Democratic	May 13, 2008–March 1, 2010

68. John Pérez	-	46/53	Democratic	March 1, 2010–May 12, 2014

69. Toni Atkins	-	78	Democratic	May 12, 2014–March 7, 2016

70. Anthony Rendon	-	63	Democratic	March 7, 2016–present

Sentence(s)

Frank Merriam, of the Republican party, was elected as the Speaker of Assembly in 1923.

final_sentence: Frank Merriam, of the Republican party, was elected as the Speaker of Assembly in 1923.