List of Speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives
The Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S.

List of Speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives

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Table Section Text: The Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S.

Speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives

Name	Term	Party	Life	Notes

David Wilson	1794–1795	c. 1752–1803	Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives

Joseph Hardin	1795–1796	1734–1801	Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives

James Stuart	1796–1799	c. 1751–1816

William Dickson	1799–1803	Democratic-Republican	1770–1816

James Stuart	1803–1805	c. 1751–1816

Robert Coleman Foster	1805–1807	1769–1844

John Tipton	1807–1809	c. 1741–1827

Joseph Dickson	1809–1811	Federalist	1745–1825

John Cocke	1811–1813	Democratic-Republican	1772–1854

Thomas Claiborne	1813–1815	Democratic	1780–1856

James Fentress	1815–1817	Democratic	1763–1843

Thomas Williamson	1817–1819	1767–1825

James Fentress	1819–1825	Democratic	1763–1843

William Brady	1825–1827	d. 1835

John H. Camp	1827–1829	1783–1829

Ephraim H. Foster	1829–1831	1794–1854

Frederick W. Huling	1831–1835	Democratic

Ephraim H. Foster	1835–1837	Whig	1794–1854

John Cocke	1837–1839	Whig	1772–1854

Jonas E. Thomas	1839–1841	Democratic	1803–1856

Burchet Douglass	1841–1842	Whig	1793–1849

Franklin Buchanan	1842–1843	Whig	c. 1813–1851

Daniel L. Barringer	1843–1845	Whig	1788–1852

Brookins Campbell	1845–1847	Democratic	1808–1853

Franklin Buchanan	1847–1849	Whig	c. 1813–1851

Landon Carter Haynes	1849–1851	Democratic	1816–1875

Jordan Stokes	1851–1853	Whig	1817–1886

William H. Wisener	1853–1855	Whig	1812–1882

Neill S. Brown	1855–1857	Whig	1818–1878

Daniel S. Donelson	1857–1859	Democratic	1801–1863

Washington C. Whitthorne	1859–1861	Democratic	1825–1891

Edwin A. Keeble	1861–1862	Democratic	1807–1868	The state government was replaced by a military government in 1862

William Heiskell	1865–1867	Conservative Republican	1788–1871	Confusion over apparent resignation in July 1866 for refusing to sign the 14th Amendment

F.S. Richardson	1867–1869	Radical Republican

William O'Neal Perkins	1869–1871	Conservative Republican	1815–1895

James D. Richardson	1871–1873	Democratic	1843–1914	New state constitution adopted in 1870

William S. McGaughey	1873–1875	Democratic	1821–1889

Lewis Bond	1875–1877	Democratic	1839–1878

Edwin T. Taliaferro	1877–1879	Democratic	1849–1919

Henry P. Fowlkes	1879–1881	Democratic	1843–1817

Henry B. Ramsey	1881–1883	Republican	1847–1897

Washington L. Ledgerwood	1883–1885	Democratic	1843–1911

James A. Manson	1885–1887	Democratic	1842–1901

Walter L. Clapp	1887–1891	Democratic	1850–1901

Thomas R. Myers	1891–1893	Democratic	1840–1919

Ralph Davis	1893	Democratic	1866–1952

Julius A. Trousdale	1893–1895	Democratic	1840–1899

John A. Tipton	1895–1897	Democratic	1858–1925

Morgan C. Fitzpatrick	1897–1899	Democratic	1868–1908

Joseph W. Byrns	1899–1901	Democratic	1869–1936

Edgar B. Wilson	1901–1903	Democratic	1874–1953

Lawrence Tyson	1903–1905	Democratic	1861–1929

William K. Abernathy	1905–1907	Democratic	1870–1940

John T. Cunningham	1907–1909	Democratic	1877–1945

Matthew H. Taylor	1909–1911	Democratic	1884–1965

Albert M. Leach	1911–1913	Democratic	1859–1926

William M. Stanton	1913–1915	Democratic	1890–1957

William P. Cooper	1915–1917	Democratic	1870–1961

Clyde Shropshire	1917–1919	Democratic	1866–1949

Seth M. Walker	1919–1921	Democratic	1892–1951

Andrew L. Todd Sr.	1921–1923	Democratic	1872–1945

Frank S. Hall	1923–1925	Democratic	1890–1958

William F. Barry	1925–1927	Democratic	1900–1967

Selden Maiden	1927–1929	Democratic	1883–1949

Charles H. Love	1929–1931	Democratic	1874–1950

Walter M. Haynes	1931–1933	Democratic	1897–1967

Frank W. Moore	1933–1935	Democratic	1905–1982

Walter M. Haynes	1935–1939	Democratic	1897–1967

John Ed O'Dell	1939–1943	Democratic	1906–1956

James J. Broome	1943–1945	Democratic	1884–1952

George Woods	1945–1947	Democratic	1913–1982

William Buford Lewallen	1947–1949	Democratic	1920–2003

McAllen Foutch	1949–1953	Democratic	1909–1996

James L. Bomar	1953–1963	Democratic	1914–2001

William L. Barry	1963–1967	Democratic	1926–2013

James H. Cummings	1967–1969	Democratic	1890–1979

Bill Jenkins	1969–1971	Republican	1936–

James R. McKinney	1971–1973	Democratic	1931–1992

Ned McWherter	1973–1987	Democratic	1930–2011

Ed Murray	1987–1991	Democratic	1928–2009

Jimmy Naifeh	1991–2009	Democratic	1939–

Kent Williams	2009–2011	Republican	1949–

Beth Harwell	2011–2019	Republican	1957–	First woman to serve as Speaker of the House

Glen Casada	2019-	Republican	1959-

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Ned McWherter served as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1973 to 1987.

final_sentence: Ned McWherter served as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1973 to 1987.