List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives
List of Speakers
The House has elected a new Speaker 126 times since 1789. Of the 54 people who have served as Speaker of the House over the past 230 years, 32 served multiple terms (of which seven served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John W.

List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives

Section Title: List of Speakers
Table Section Text: The House has elected a new Speaker 126 times since 1789. Of the 54 people who have served as Speaker of the House over the past 230 years, 32 served multiple terms (of which seven served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John W.

Cong.	Name	Party	District	Term of service

1st	-	Frederick Muhlenberg	Pro-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large	April 1, 1789 – March 4, 1791

2nd	-	Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	Pro-Administration	Connecticut at-large	October 24, 1791 – March 4, 1793

3rd	-	Frederick Muhlenberg	Anti-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large	December 2, 1793 – March 4, 1795

4th	-	Jonathan Dayton	Federalist	New Jersey at-large	December 7, 1795 – March 4, 1797

5th	May 15, 1797 – March 4, 1799

6th	-	Theodore Sedgwick	Federalist	Massachusetts 1	December 2, 1799 – March 4, 1801

7th	-	Nathaniel Macon	Democratic- Republican	North Carolina 5	December 7, 1801 – March 4, 1803

8th	North Carolina 6	October 17, 1803 – March 4, 1805

9th	December 2, 1805 – March 4, 1807

10th	-	Joseph Bradley Varnum	Democratic- Republican	Massachusetts 4	October 26, 1807 – March 4, 1809

11th	May 22, 1809 – March 4, 1811

12th	Henry Clay.JPG	Henry Clay	Democratic- Republican	Kentucky 5	November 4, 1811 – March 4, 1813

13th	Kentucky 2	May 24, 1813 – January 19, 1814

13th	-	Langdon Cheves	Democratic- Republican	South Carolina 1	January 19, 1814 – March 4, 1815

14th	Henry Clay.JPG	Henry Clay	Democratic- Republican	Kentucky 2	December 4, 1815 – March 4, 1817

15th	December 1, 1817 – March 4, 1819

16th	December 6, 1819 – October 28, 1820

16th	-	John W. Taylor	Democratic- Republican	New York 11	November 15, 1820 – March 4, 1821

17th	-	Philip Pendleton Barbour	Democratic- Republican	Virginia 11	December 4, 1821 – March 4, 1823

18th	Henry Clay.JPG	Henry Clay	Democratic- Republican	Kentucky 3	December 1, 1823 – March 6, 1825

19th	-	John W. Taylor	Adams Republican	New York 17	December 5, 1825 – March 4, 1827

20th	-	Andrew Stevenson	Jacksonian	Virginia 9	December 3, 1827 – March 4, 1829

21st	December 7, 1829 – March 4, 1831

22nd	December 5, 1831 – March 4, 1833

23rd	Virginia 11	December 2, 1833 – June 2, 1834

23rd	-	John Bell	Jacksonian	Tennessee 7	June 2, 1834 – March 4, 1835

24th	-	James K. Polk	Jacksonian	Tennessee 9	December 7, 1835 – March 4, 1837

25th	Democratic	September 4, 1837 – March 4, 1839

26th	-	Robert M. T. Hunter	Whig	Virginia 9	December 16, 1839 – March 4, 1841

27th	-	John White	Whig	Kentucky 9	May 31, 1841 – March 4, 1843

28th	-	John Winston Jones	Democratic	Virginia 6	December 4, 1843 – March 4, 1845

29th	-	John Wesley Davis	Democratic	Indiana 6	December 1, 1845 – March 4, 1847

30th	-	Robert Charles Winthrop	Whig	Massachusetts 1	December 6, 1847 – March 4, 1849

31st	-	Howell Cobb	Democratic	Georgia 6	December 22, 1849 – March 4, 1851

32nd	-	Linn Boyd	Democratic	Kentucky 1	December 1, 1851 – March 4, 1853

33rd	December 5, 1853 – March 4, 1855

34th	-	Nathaniel P. Banks	American	Massachusetts 7	February 2, 1856 – March 4, 1857

35th	-	James Lawrence Orr	Democratic	South Carolina 5	December 7, 1857 – March 4, 1859

36th	-	William Pennington	Republican	New Jersey 5	February 1, 1860 – March 4, 1861

37th	-	Galusha A. Grow	Republican	Pennsylvania 14	July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863

38th	-	Schuyler Colfax	Republican	Indiana 9	December 7, 1863 – March 4, 1865

39th	December 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867

40th	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869

40th	-	Theodore M. Pomeroy	Republican	New York 24	March 3–4, 1869

41st	-	James G. Blaine	Republican	Maine 3	March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1871

42nd	March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1873

43rd	March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1875

44th	-	Michael C. Kerr	Democratic	Indiana 3	December 6, 1875 – August 19, 1876

44th	-	Samuel J. Randall	Democratic	Pennsylvania 3	December 4, 1876 – March 4, 1877

45th	October 15, 1877 – March 4, 1879

46th	March 18, 1879 – March 4, 1881

47th	-	J. Warren Keifer	Republican	Ohio 8	December 5, 1881 – March 4, 1883

48th	-	John G. Carlisle	Democratic	Kentucky 6	December 3, 1883 – March 4, 1885

49th	December 7, 1885 – March 4, 1887

50th	December 5, 1887 – March 4, 1889

51st	-	Thomas Brackett Reed	Republican	Maine 1	December 2, 1889 – March 4, 1891

52nd	-	Charles Frederick Crisp	Democratic	Georgia 3	December 8, 1891 – March 4, 1893

53rd	August 7, 1893 – March 4, 1895

54th	-	Thomas Brackett Reed	Republican	Maine 1	December 2, 1895 – March 4, 1897

55th	March 15, 1897 – March 4, 1899

56th	-	David B. Henderson	Republican	Iowa 3	December 4, 1899 – March 4, 1901

57th	December 2, 1901 – March 4, 1903

58th	-	Joseph Gurney Cannon	Republican	Illinois 18	November 9, 1903 – March 4, 1905

59th	December 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907

60th	December 2, 1907 – March 4, 1909

61st	March 15, 1909 – March 4, 1911

62nd	-	Champ Clark	Democratic	Missouri 9	April 4, 1911 – March 4, 1913

63rd	April 7, 1913 – March 4, 1915

64th	December 6, 1915 – March 4, 1917

65th	April 2, 1917 – March 4, 1919

66th	-	Frederick H. Gillett	Republican	Massachusetts 2	May 19, 1919 – March 4, 1921

67th	April 11, 1921 – March 4, 1923

68th	December 5, 1923 – March 4, 1925

69th	Nick Longworth Portrait.JPG	Nicholas Longworth	Republican	Ohio 1	December 7, 1925 – March 4, 1927

70th	December 5, 1927 – March 4, 1929

71st	April 15, 1929 – March 4, 1931

72nd	-	John Nance Garner	Democratic	Texas 15	December 7, 1931 – March 4, 1933

73rd	-	Henry Thomas Rainey	Democratic	Illinois 20	March 9, 1933 – August 19, 1934

74th	-	Joseph W. Byrns Sr.	Democratic	Tennessee 5	January 3, 1935 – June 4, 1936

74th	-	William B. Bankhead	Democratic	Alabama 7	June 4, 1936 – January 3, 1937

75th	January 5, 1937 – January 3, 1939

76th	January 3, 1939 – September 15, 1940

76th	-	Sam Rayburn	Democratic	Texas 4	September 16, 1940 – January 3, 1941

77th	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943

78th	January 6, 1943 – January 3, 1945

79th	January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947

80th	-	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	Republican	Massachusetts 14	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949

81st	-	Sam Rayburn	Democratic	Texas 4	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951

82nd	January 3, 1951 – January 3, 1953

83rd	-	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	Republican	Massachusetts 14	January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1955

84th	-	Sam Rayburn	Democratic	Texas 4	January 3, 1955 – January 3, 1957

85th	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959

86th	January 7, 1959 – January 3, 1961

87th	January 3, 1961 – November 16, 1961

87th	-	John W. McCormack	Democratic	Massachusetts 12	January 10, 1962 – January 3, 1963

88th	Massachusetts 9	January 9, 1963 – January 3, 1965

89th	January 4, 1965 – January 3, 1967

90th	January 10, 1967 – January 3, 1969

91st	January 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971

92nd	-	Carl Albert	Democratic	Oklahoma 3	January 21, 1971 – January 3, 1973

93rd	January 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975

94th	January 14, 1975 – January 3, 1977

95th	-	Tip O'Neill	Democratic	Massachusetts 8	January 4, 1977 – January 3, 1979

96th	January 15, 1979 – January 3, 1981

97th	January 5, 1981 – January 3, 1983

98th	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985

99th	January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1987

100th	-	Jim Wright	Democratic	Texas 12	January 6, 1987 – January 3, 1989

101st	January 3, 1989 – June 6, 1989

101st	-	Tom Foley	Democratic	Washington 5	June 6, 1989 – January 3, 1991

102nd	January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1993

103rd	January 5, 1993 – January 3, 1995

104th	-	Newt Gingrich	Republican	Georgia 6	January 4, 1995 – January 3, 1997

105th	January 7, 1997 – January 3, 1999

106th	-	Dennis Hastert	Republican	Illinois 14	January 6, 1999 – January 3, 2001

107th	January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2003

108th	January 7, 2003 – January 3, 2005

109th	January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007

110th	-	Nancy Pelosi	Democratic	California 8	January 4, 2007 – January 3, 2009

111th	January 6, 2009 – January 3, 2011

112th	Speaker Boehner.tif	John Boehner	Republican	Ohio 8	January 5, 2011 – January 3, 2013

113th	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015

114th	January 6, 2015 – October 29, 2015

114th	-	Paul Ryan	Republican	Wisconsin 1	October 29, 2015 – January 3, 2017

115th	January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2019

116th	-	Nancy Pelosi	Democratic	California 12	January 3, 2019 – Incumbent

Pro-Administration (2) • Anti-Administration (1) • Federalist (2) • Democratic-Republican (6) • Adams Republican (1) • Jacksonian (3) • Democratic (22) • Whig (3) • American (1) • Republican (16)

Sentence(s)

Wright served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989.

final_sentence: Wright served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989.