List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
House of Representatives under the Massachusetts Constitution

List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Section Title: House of Representatives under the Massachusetts Constitution
Table Section Text: None

Speaker	Party	Years ↑	City or Town (District)	Electoral history

Caleb Davis	None	1780–1782	Boston	Resigned

Nathaniel Gorham	None	1782–1783	Charlestown	[Data unknown/missing.]

Tristram Dalton	None	1783–1784	Newbury	Elected to State Senate

Samuel Allyne Otis	None	1784–1785	Barnstable	[Data unknown/missing.]

Nathaniel Gorham	None	1785–1786	Charlestown	[Data unknown/missing.]

Artemas Ward	None	1786–1787	Shrewsbury	[Data unknown/missing.]

James Warren	None	1787–1788	Plymouth	[Data unknown/missing.]

Theodore Sedgwick	Pro-Administration	1788–1789	Sheffield	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

David Cobb	Pro-Administration	1789–1793	Taunton	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Edward Robbins	Democratic-Republican	1793–1802	Boston	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

John Coffin Jones	Federalist	1802–1803	Boston	[Data unknown/missing.]

Harrison Gray Otis	Federalist	1803–1805	Boston	Elected to the State Senate

Timothy Bigelow	Federalist	1805–1806	Worcester	Party lost majority

Perez Morton	Democratic-Republican	1806–1808	Dorchester	Party lost majority

Timothy Bigelow	Federalist	1808–1810	Worcester	Party lost majority

Perez Morton	Democratic-Republican	1810–1811	Dorchester	Resigned

Joseph Story	Democratic-Republican	1811–1812	Salem	Resigned when appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Eleazer Ripley	Democratic-Republican	1812	Waterville	Joined United States Army

Timothy Bigelow	Federalist	1812–1820	Worcester	[Data unknown/missing.]

Elijah H. Mills	Federalist	1820–1821	Northampton	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Josiah Quincy III	Federalist	1821–1822	Boston	Resigned to become Judge of Boston Municipal Court

Luther Lawrence	Federalist	1822	Lowell	Party lost majority

Levi Lincoln, Jr.	National Republican	1822–1823	Worcester	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

William C. Jarvis	National Republican	1823–1825	Woburn	Party lost majority

Timothy Fuller	Democratic-Republican	1825–1826	Cambridgeport	Party lost majority

William C. Jarvis	National Republican	1826–1828	Woburn	[Data unknown/missing.]

William B. Calhoun	National Republican	1828–1834	Springfield	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Julius Rockwell	Whig	1835–1837	Pittsfield	Resigned when appointed commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts

Robert Charles Winthrop	Whig	1838–1840	Boston	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

George Ashmun	Whig	1841	Blandford	[Data unknown/missing.]

Thomas H. Kinnicutt	Whig	1842	Worcester	[Data unknown/missing.]

Daniel P. King	Whig	1843	South Danvers	[Data unknown/missing.]

Thomas H. Kinnicutt	Whig	1844	Worcester	Resigned

Samuel H. Walley, Jr.	Whig	1844–1846	Boston	[Data unknown/missing.]

Ebenezer Bradbury	Whig	1847	Newburyport	[Data unknown/missing.]

Francis Crowninshield	Whig	1848–1849	Boston	[Data unknown/missing.]

Ensign H. Kellogg	Whig	1850	Pittsfield	[Data unknown/missing.]

Nathaniel Prentice Banks	Democratic/Free Soil Coalition	1851–1852	Waltham	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

George Bliss	Whig	1853	Springfield	[Data unknown/missing.]

Otis P. Lord	Whig	1854	Salem	Party lost majority

Daniel C. Eddy	Know Nothing	1855	Lowell	[Data unknown/missing.]

Charles A. Phelps	Know Nothing	1856–1857	Boston	Elected to the Massachusetts Senate; Party Lost election

Julius Rockwell	Republican	1858	Pittsfield	Resigned when appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court

Charles Hale	Republican	1859	Boston	[Data unknown/missing.]

John A. Goodwin	Republican	1860–1861	Lowell	[Data unknown/missing.]

Alexander Hamilton Bullock	Republican	1862–1865	Worcester	Elected Governor of Massachusetts

James M. Stone	Republican	1866–1867	Charlestown	[Data unknown/missing.]

Harvey Jewell	Republican	1868–1871	Boston	[Data unknown/missing.]

John E. Sanford	Republican	1872–1875	Taunton	[Data unknown/missing.]

John Davis Long	Republican	1876–1878	Hingham	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Levi C. Wade	Republican	1879	Newton	[Data unknown/missing.]

Charles J. Noyes	Republican	1880–1882	Boston (14th Suffolk)	[Data unknown/missing.]

George Augustus Marden	Republican	1883–1884	Lowell	[Data unknown/missing.]

John Q. A. Brackett	Republican	January 7, 1885 – 1886	Boston (17th Suffolk)	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Charles J. Noyes	Republican	1887–1888	Boston (14th Suffolk)	[Data unknown/missing.]

William Emerson Barrett	Republican	1889–1893	Melrose (11th Middlesex)	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

George von Lengerke Meyer	Republican	1894–1896	Boston (9th Suffolk)	[Data unknown/missing.]

John Lewis Bates	Republican	1897–1899	Boston (1st Suffolk)	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

James J. Myers	Republican	1900–1903	Cambridge (1st Middlesex)	Retired

Louis A. Frothingham	Republican	1904–1905	Boston (11th Suffolk)	Left House to run for governor

John N. Cole	Republican	1906–1908	Andover (8th Essex)	Left House to run for Lieutenant Governor

Joseph H. Walker	Republican	1909–1911	Brookline (2nd Norfolk)	Left House to run for governor

Grafton D. Cushing	Republican	1912–1914	Boston (11th Suffolk)	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Channing H. Cox	Republican	1915–1918	Boston (10th Suffolk)	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Joseph E. Warner	Republican	1919–1920	Taunton (4th Bristol)	Lost primary for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts to Alvan Fuller

Benjamin Loring Young	Republican	1921–1924	Weston (13th Middlesex)	[Data unknown/missing.]

John C. Hull	Republican	1925–1929	Leominster (11th Worcester)	Retired

Leverett Saltonstall	Republican	1929–1936	Chestnut Hill (5th Middlesex)	Defeated for election as Lieutenant Governor by Francis E. Kelly

Horace T. Cahill	Republican	1937–1938	Braintree (6th Norfolk)	Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Christian Herter	Republican	1939–1942	Boston (5th Suffolk)	Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Rudolph King	Republican	1943–1944	Millis (8th Norfolk)	Resigned to run become Registrar of Motor Vehicles

Frederick Willis	Republican	1945–1948	Saugus (10th Essex)	Party lost majority

Thomas P. O'Neill	Democratic	1949–1952	Cambridge (3rd Middlesex)	Party lost majority; O'Neill elected to U.S. House of Representatives

Charles Gibbons	Republican	1953–1954	Stoneham (22nd Middlesex)	Party lost majority

Michael F. Skerry	Democratic	1955–1957	Medford (27th Middlesex)	Resigned when appointed Clerk of the Malden District Court

John F. Thompson	Democratic	1958–1964	Ludlow (2nd Hampden)	Resigned after being indicted on charges of conspiracy and bribery

John Davoren	Democratic	1965–1967	Milford (9th Worcester)	Resigned when appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth

Robert H. Quinn	Democratic	1967–1969	Boston (9th Suffolk)	Elected Massachusetts Attorney General

David M. Bartley	Democratic	1969–1975	Holyoke (7th Hampden)	Resigned to become President of Holyoke Community College

Thomas W. McGee	Democratic	1975–1984	Lynn (20th Essex)	Defeated by Keverian in leadership challenge

George Keverian	Democratic	1985–1990	Everett (39th Middlesex)	Retired to run for State Treasurer

Charles Flaherty	Democratic	1991 – April 9, 1996	Cambridge (27th Middlesex)	Resigned: pleaded guilty to tax evasion

Thomas Finneran	Democratic	April 9, 1996 – September 28, 2004	Mattapan (12th Suffolk)	Resigned due to allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice

Salvatore DiMasi	Democratic	September 28, 2004 – January 27, 2009	Boston (3rd Suffolk)	Resigned: convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and extortion

Robert DeLeo	Democratic	January 27, 2009 – present	Winthrop (19th Suffolk)	Current Speaker

Sentence(s)

Hale was elected as Speaker of Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1859.

final_sentence: Hale was elected as Speaker of Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1859.