List of Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives
State of Texas
Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas.

List of Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives

Section Title: State of Texas
Table Section Text: Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas.

Name	Party	Term in Office	Legislative Sessions

William Crump	Democratic	16 February 1846 – 3 March 1846	1st

John Brown	Democratic	3 March 1846 – 9 March 1846

Edward Thomas Branch	Democratic	9 March 1846 – 16 March 1846

William Crump	Democratic	16 March 1846 – 1 May 1846

William H. Bourland	Democratic	1 May 1846–before 13 May 1846

Stephen W. Perkins	Democratic	before 13 May 1846 – 13 December 1847

J. W. Henderson	Democratic	13 December 1847 – 5 November 1849	2nd

Charles G. Keenan	Democratic	5 November 1849 – 3 November 1851	3rd

David Catchings Dickson	Democratic	3 November 1851 – 7 November 1853	4th

Hardin Richard Runnels	Democratic	7 November 1853 – 5 November 1855	5th

Hamilton Prioleau Bee	Democratic	5 November 1855 – 2 November 1857	6th

William S. Taylor	Democratic	2 November 1857 – 18 January 1858	7th

Matthew Fielding Locke	Democratic	18 January 1858 – 7 November 1859

M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	7 November 1859 – 4 November 1861	8th

Constantine W. Buckley	Democratic	4 November 1861 – 7 December 1861	9th

Nicholas Henry Darnell	Democratic	7 December 1861 – 1862

Vacant	1862–2 February 1863

Constantine W. Buckley	Democratic	2 February 1863 – 2 November 1863

M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	2 November 1863 – 6 August 1866	10th

Nathaniel Macon Burford	Unionist	6 August 1866 – 25 April 1869	11th

Vacant	25 April 1869 – 8 February 1870

Ira Hobart Evans	Republican	8 February 1870 – 1871	12th

William Henry Sinclair	Republican	1871–14 January 1873

M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	14 January 1873 – 13 January 1874	13th

Guy Morrison Bryan	Democratic	13 January 1874 – 1876	14th

Thomas Reuben Bonner	Democratic	1876–1879	15th

John Hughes Cochran	Democratic	1879–1881	16th

George Robertson Reeves	Democratic	1881–September 5, 1882	17th

Charles Reese Gibson	Democratic	1883–1885	18th

Lafayette Lumpkin Foster	Democratic	1885–1887	19th

George Cassety Pendleton	Democratic	1887–1889	20th

Frank P. Alexander	Democratic	1889–1891	21st

Robert Teague Milner	Democratic	1891–1893	22nd

John Hughes Cochran	Democratic	1893–1895	23rd

Thomas Slater Smith	Democratic	1895–1897	24th

L. Travis Dashiell	Democratic	1897–1899	25th

James S. Sherrill	Democratic	1899–1901	26th

Robert E. Prince	Democratic	1901–1903	27th

Pat Morris Neff	Democratic	1903–1905	28th

Francis William Seabury	Democratic	1905–1907	29th

Thomas Bell Love	Democratic	1907–1909	30th

Austin Milton Kennedy	Democratic	1909	31st

John Wesley Marshall	Democratic	1909–1911

Sam Rayburn	Democratic	1911–1913	32nd

Chester H. Terrell	Democratic	1913–1915	33rd

John William Woods	Democratic	1915–1917	34th

Franklin Oliver Fuller	Democratic	1917–1919	35th

Robert Ewing Thomason	Democratic	1919–1921	36th

Charles Graham Thomas	Democratic	1921–1923	37th

Richard Ernest Seagler	Democratic	1923–1925	38th

Lee Satterwhite	Democratic	1925–1927	39th

Robert Lee Bobbitt	Democratic	1927–1929	40th

Wingate S. Barron	Democratic	1929–1931	41st

Fred Hawthorne Minor	Democratic	1931–1933	42nd

Coke R. Stevenson	Democratic	1933–1937	43rd

44th

Robert Wilburn Calvert	Democratic	1937–1939	45th

Robert Emmett Morse	Democratic	1939–1941	46th

Homer Lakerby Leonard	Democratic	1941–1943	47th

Price Daniel	Democratic	1943–1945	48th

Claud H. Gilmer	Democratic	1945–1947	49th

William O. Reed	Democratic	1947–1949	50th

Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr.	Democratic	1949–1951	51st

Reuben E. Senterfitt	Democratic	1951–1955	52nd

53rd

Jim T. Lindsey	Democratic	1955–1957	54th

Waggoner Carr	Democratic	1957–1961	55th

56th

Jimmy Turman	Democratic	1961	57th

Byron M. Tunnell	Democratic	1963	58th

Ben F. Barnes	Democratic	1965–1969	59th

60th

Gus Franklin Mutscher	Democratic	1969–1972	61st

62nd

Rayford Price	Democratic	1972–1973	62nd

Price Daniel Jr.	Democratic	1973–1975	63rd

Bill W. Clayton	Democratic	1975–1983	64th

65th

66th

67th

Gib Lewis	Democratic	1983–1993	68th

69th

70th

71st

72nd

Pete Laney	Democratic	1993–2003	73rd

74th

75th

76th

77th

Tom Craddick	Republican	2003–2009	78th

79th

80th

Joe Straus	Republican	2009–2019

82nd

83rd

84th

85th

Dennis Bonnen	Republican	2019-	86th

Sentence(s)

In 1881, George R. Reeves became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Texas.
In 1881, George R. Reeves became the speaker of the House of Representatives for the state of Texas.
In 1881, George R. Reeves became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Texas.

final_sentence: In 1881, George R. Reeves became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Texas.
final_sentence: In 1881, George R. Reeves became the speaker of the House of Representatives for the state of Texas.
final_sentence: In 1881, George R. Reeves became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Texas.