# List of speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives
## List of speakers

| 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 Session |
| 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 |
| Frederick Barrow 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) | 2022 |
| Jan Jones | Republican | 2022 (November 16) | 2023 |
| Jon G. Burns | Republican | 2023 (January 9) | |