List of Speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives
List of Speakers

List of Speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives

Section Title: List of Speakers
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Speaker	Party	Start of service	End of service

Noble Wimberly Jones	Whig	1777	May 2, 1778

James Whitefield	Whig	May 2, 1778	October 30, 1778

Noble Wimberly Jones	Whig	October 30, 1778	November 15, 1778

**no quorum**	1779	1779

William Glascock	Whig	1780	1780

Nathan Brownson	1781	1781

William Gibbons, Sr.	1782	1782

Samuel Saltus	1782	1782

Joseph Clay	Federalist	1782 1st Adjournment	1782 1st Adjournment

Joseph Habersham	Independent	1782 2nd Adjournment	1782 3rd Adjournment

John Houstoun	Whig	1783	1783 retired after "several days"

Noble Wimberly Jones	Whig	1783	1783 1st Session

William Gibbons, Sr.	1783 2nd Session	1783 2nd Session

James Habersham, Jr.	1784	1784

Joseph Habersham	Independent	1785	1785

William Gibbons, Sr.	1786	1787

Nathan Brownson	1788	1788 2nd Session

John Powell	1789	1789

Seaborn Jones	1789	1790

William Gibbons	1791	1793

Thomas Napier	1794	1795

Thomas Stevens	1796	1796

David Meriwether	Democratic-Republican	1797	1801

Abraham Jackson	1802	1805

Benjamin Whitaker	1806	1810

Robert Iverson	1811	1811

Benjamin Whitaker	1812	1818

David Adams|	1819	1820

David Witt	1821	1821

David Adams	1821	1821

Allen Daniel, Jr.	1822	1822

David Adams	1823	1823

John Abercrombie	1824	1825

Thomas W. Murray	Democratic-Republican	1825	1825

Irby Hudson	1826	1828

Warren Jourdan	1829	1829

Asbury Hull	Democratic	1830	1832

Thomas Glascock	1833	1834

Joseph Day	Democratic	1836	1839

Charles J. Jenkins	Democrat	1840	1840

William B. Wofford	1841	1842

Charles J. Jenkins	Whig	1843	1848

John W. Anderson	Democrat	1849	1850

James Archibald Meriwether	Democrat	1851	1852

John Elliott Ward	Democrat	1853	1854

William Henry Stiles	Democrat	1855	1856

John H.W. Underwood	Democrat	1857	1858

Isaiah Tucker Irvin	Democrat	1859	1859

Charles J. Williams	Democrat	1860	1860

Warren Akin Sr.	Democrat	1861	1863 Extraordinary Session

Thomas Hardeman, Jr.	Democrat	1863	1866 Extraordinary Session

Robert McWhorter	Republican	1868	1870 Extraordinary Session

James Milton Smith	Democrat	1871	1871

Joseph B. Cumming	Democrat	1872	1873 Late Adjournment

Augustus Octavius Bacon	Democrat	1873	1874

Thomas Hardeman, Jr.	Democrat	1875	1876

Augustus Octavius Bacon	Democrat	1877	1881 Late Adjournment

Louis F. Garrard	Democrat	1882	1883 Extraordinary Session

William A. Little	Democrat	1884	1887 Late Adjournment

Alexander S. Clay	Democratic	1888	1889 Late Adjournment

Clark Howell	Democratic	1890	1891 Late Adjournment

William Yates Atkinson	Democratic	1892	1893

William H. Fleming	Democratic	1894	1895

Hudson A. Jenkins	Democrat	1896	1897 Late Adjournment

John D. Little	Democrat	1898	1901

Newton Morris	Democratic	1902	1904

John M. Slaton	Democratic	1905	1908 Extraordinary Seession

John N. Holder	Democratic	1909	1912 Extraordinary Session

William H. Burwell	Democratic	1913	1917 Extraordinary Session

John N. Holder	Democratic	1917	1920

William Cecil Neill	Democrat	1921	1926 2nd Extraordinary Session

Richard Russell Jr.	Democratic	1927	1931 Extraordinary Session

Arlie Daniel Tucker	Democratic	1931	1932

Eurith Dickerson Rivers	Democratic	1933	1936

Roy V. Harris	Democratic	1937	1940 Extraordinary Session

Randall Evans, Jr.	Democratic	1941 Extraordinary Session	1942

Roy V. Harris	Democratic	1943	1946 Extraordinary Session

Fred Hand	Democratic	1947	1954

Marvin E. Moate	Democratic	1955	1958

George L. Smith	Democratic	1959	1962 Extraordinary Session

George T. Smith	Democratic	1963	1966

George L. Smith	Democratic	1967	1972

Thomas B. Murphy	Democratic	1973	2002

Terry Coleman	Democratic	2003	2005

Glenn Richardson	Republican	2005	2010 (January 1)

Mark Burkhalter	Republican	2010 Interim Speaker	2010

David Ralston	Republican	2010 (January 11)	present

Sentence(s)

Daniel was elected as the Speaker of Georgia House of Representatives in 1822.

final_sentence: Daniel was elected as the Speaker of Georgia House of Representatives in 1822.