List of Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives
The Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives is the Speaker or presiding officer of the Vermont House of Representatives, the lower house of the Vermont Legislature.

List of Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives

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Table Section Text: The Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives is the Speaker or presiding officer of the Vermont House of Representatives, the lower house of the Vermont Legislature.

Speaker	Term	Party

Joseph Bowker	1778

Nathan Clark	1778

Thomas Chandler, Jr.	1778–1780

Samuel Robinson	1780

Thomas Porter	1780–1782

Increase Moseley	1782–1783

Isaac Tichenor	1783–1784	Federalist

Nathaniel Niles	1784–1785	Democratic-Republican

Stephen R. Bradley	1785–1786	Democratic-Republican

John Strong	1786	Democratic-Republican

Gideon Olin	1786–1793	Democratic-Republican

Daniel Buck	1793–1795	Federalist

Lewis R. Morris	1795–1797	Federalist

Abel Spencer	1797–1798	Federalist

Daniel Farrand	1798–1799	Federalist

Amos Marsh	1799–1802	Federalist

Abel Spencer	1802–1803	Federalist

Theophilus Harrington	1803–1804	Democratic-Republican

Aaron Leland	1804–1804	Democratic-Republican

Dudley Chase	1808–1813	Democratic-Republican

Daniel Chipman	1813–1815	Federalist

William A. Griswold	1815–1818	Democratic-Republican

Richard Skinner	1818–1819	Democratic-Republican

William A. Griswold	1819–1820	Democratic-Republican

D. Azro A. Buck	1820–1822	Adams-Clay Republican

George E. Wales	1822–1824	Adams-Clay Republican

Isaac Fletcher	1824	Democratic-Republican

D. Azro A. Buck	1825–1826	Adams-Clay Republican

Robert B. Bates	1826–1829	Democratic-Republican

D. Azro A. Buck	1829–1830	Adams-Clay Republican

Robert B. Bates	1830–1831	Democratic-Republican

John Smith	1831–1834	Democratic-Republican

Ebenezer N. Briggs	1834–1836	Whig

Carlos Coolidge	1836–1837	Whig

Solomon Foot	1837–1839	Whig

Carlos Coolidge	1839–1842	Whig

Andrew Tracy	1842–1845	Whig

Ebenezer N. Briggs	1845–1847	Whig

Solomon Foot	1847–1848	Whig

William C. Kittredge	1848–1850	Whig

Thomas E. Powers	1850–1853	Whig

Horatio Needham	1853–1854	Free Soil Democratic

George W. Grandey	1854–1857	Republican

George F. Edmunds	1857–1860	Republican

Augustus P. Hunton	1860–1862	Republican

J. Gregory Smith	1862–1863	Republican

Abraham B. Gardner	1863–1865	Republican

John W. Stewart	1865–1868	Republican

George W. Grandey	1868–1870	Republican

Charles Herbert Joyce	1870–1872	Republican

Franklin Fairbanks	1872–1874	Republican

Horace Henry Powers	1874	Republican

Josiah Grout	1874–1876	Republican

John W. Stewart	1876–1878	Republican

James Loren Martin	1878–1884	Republican

James K. Batchelder	1884–1886	Republican

Josiah Grout	1886–1890	Republican

Henry R. Start	1890	Republican

Hosea A. Mann, Jr.	1890–1892	Republican

William Wallace Stickney	1892–1896	Republican

William A. Lord	1896–1898	Republican

Kittredge Haskins	1898–1900	Republican

Fletcher Dutton Proctor	1900–1902	Republican

John H. Merrifield	1902–1906	Republican

Thomas Charles Cheney	1906–1910	Republican

Frank E. Howe	1910–1912	Republican

Charles Albert Plumley	1912–1915	Republican

John E. Weeks	1915–1917	Republican

Stanley C. Wilson	1917	Republican

Charles S. Dana	1917–1921	Republican

Franklin S. Billings	1921–1923	Republican

Orlando L. Martin	1923–1925	Republican

Roswell M. Austin	1925–1927	Republican

Loren R. Pierce	1927–1929	Republican

Benjamin Williams	1929–1931	Republican

Edward H. Deavitt	1931–1933	Republican

George David Aiken	1933–1935	Republican

Ernest E. Moore	1935–1937	Republican

Mortimer R. Proctor	1937–1939	Republican

Oscar L. Shepard	1939–1941	Republican

Lee Earl Emerson	1941–1943	Republican

Asa S. Bloomer	1943–1945	Republican

Joseph H. Denny	1945–1947	Republican

Winston L. Prouty	1947–1949	Republican

J. Harold Stacey	1949–1951	Republican

Wallace M. Fay	1951–1953	Republican

Consuelo N. Bailey	1953–1955	Republican

John E. Hancock	1955–1957	Republican

Charles H. Brown	1957–1959	Republican

F. Ray Keyser, Jr.	1959–1961	Republican

Leroy Lawrence	1961–1963	Republican

Franklin S. Billings, Jr.	1963–1965	Republican

Richard Walker Mallary	1965–1969	Republican

John S. Burgess	1969–1971	Republican

Walter L. Kennedy	1971–1975	Republican

Timothy J. O'Connor, Jr.	1975–1981	Democratic

Stephan A. Morse	1981–1985	Republican

Ralph G. Wright	1985–1995	Democratic

Michael J. Obuchowski	1995–2001	Democratic

Walter E. Freed	2001–2005	Republican

Gaye Randolph Symington	2005–2009	Democratic

Shapleigh "Shap" Smith, Jr.	2009–2017	Democratic

Mitzi Johnson	2017–present	Democratic

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Joseph Bowker was the first Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.

final_sentence: Joseph Bowker was the first Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.