# Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives

The Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.

## Speakers, 1699-1818

A list of speakers of the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1699 to 1818 is available at

## Speakers since 1818

| Name | Town | Political party | Term of service |
| David Plant | Stratford | Toleration Republican | 1819, 1820 |
| Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | Toleration Republican | 1821 |
| Seth P. Beers | Litchfield | Toleration Republican | 1822, 1823 |
| Ralph I. Ingersoll | New Haven | Toleration Republican | 1824 |
| Samuel A. Foot | Cheshire | National Republican | 1825, 1826 |
| Ebenezer Young | Killingly | National Republican | 1827, 1828 |
| Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | National Republican | 1829 |
| Henry W. Edwards | New Haven | Jacksonian | 1830 |
| Martin Welles | Wethersfield | National Republican | 1831, 1832 |
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Jacksonian | 1833 |
| Roger Huntington | Norwich | National Republican | 1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834) |
| William L. Storrs | Middletown | National Republican | 1834 |
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835) |
| Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Democratic | 1835, 1836 |
| Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1837 |
| William W. Boardman | New Haven | Whig | 1838, 1839 |
| Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1840, 1841 |
| Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1842 |
| Noyes Billings | New London | Democratic | 1843 |
| Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1844 |
| William W. Boardman | NewHaven | Whig | 1845 |
| Cyrus H. Beardslee | Monroe | Democratic | 1846 |
| Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1847, 1848 |
| John C. Lewis | Plymouth | Free Soil Democratic | 1849 |
| Origen S. Seymour | Litchfield | Democratic | 1850 |
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1851 |
| Charles B. Phelps | Woodbury | Democratic | 1852 |
| William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1853 |
| Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854) |
| Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1854 |
| Austin Baldwin | Middletown | American | 1855 |
| Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1856 |
| Eliphalet A. Bulkeley | Hartford | Republican | 1857 |
| Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1858 |
| Oliver H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1859, 1860 |
| Augustus Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1861 |
| Henry C. Deming | Hartford | Democratic | 1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861) |
| Josiah M. Carter | Norwalk | Republican | 1862 |
| Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Republican | 1863 |
| John S. Rice | Farmington | Union | 1864 |
| Eleazer K. Foster | New Haven | Republican | 1865 |
| David Gallup | Plainfield | Union | 1866 |
| John T. Wait | Norwich | Union | 1867 |
| Charles Ives | East Haven | Republican | 1868 |
| Orville H. Platt | Meriden | Republican | 1869 |
| Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Republican | 1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870) |
| Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1870 |
| Edwin H. Bugbee | Killingly | Republican | 1871 |
| Amos S. Treat | Woodbridge | Republican | 1872 |
| William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1873 |
| Tilton E. Doolittle | New Haven | Democratic | 1874 |
| Charles Durand | Derby | Republican | 1875 |
| Thomas M. Waller | New London | Democratic | 1876 |
| Lynde Harrison | Guilford | Republican | 1877 |
| Charles H. Briscoe | Enfield | Republican | 1878 |
| Dexter R. Wright | New Haven | Republican | 1879 |
| Dwight Marcy | Vernon | Republican | 1880 |
| William C. Case | Granby | Republican | 1881 |
| John Manning Hall | Windham | Republican | 1882 |
| Charles H. Pine | Derby | Republican | 1883 |
| Henry B. Harrison | New Haven | Republican | 1884 |
| William Edgar Simonds | Canton | Republican | 1885 |
| John A. Tibbits | New London | Republican | 1886 |
| Heusted W. R. Hoyt | Greenwich | Republican | 1887 |
| John H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1889 |
| Allen W. Paige | Huntington | Republican | 1891 |
| Isaac W. Brooks | Torrington | Republican | 1893 |
| Samuel Fessenden | Stamford | Republican | 1895 |
| Joseph L. Barbour | Hartford | Republican | 1897 |
| Frank B. Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1899 |
| John H. Light | Norwalk | Republican | 1901 |
| Michael Kenealy | Stamford | Republican | 1903 |
| Marcus H. Holcomb | Southington | Republican | 1905 |
| John Q. Tilson | New Haven | Republican | 1907 |
| Elmore S. Banks | Fairfield | Republican | 1909 |
| Frederick A. Scott | Plymouth | Republican | 1911 |
| Morris C. Webster | Harwinton | Republican | 1913 |
| Frank E. Healy | Windsor Locks | Republican | 1915 |
| James F. Walsh | Greenwich | Republican | 1917 |
| Frederick W. Huxford | Stamford | Republican | 1921 |
| Leonard J. Nickerson | Cornwall | Republican | 1923 |
| Elbert L. Darbie | Killingly | Republican | 1925 |
| John H. Hill | Shelton | Republican | 1927 |
| Samuel A. Eddy | North Canaan | Republican | 1929 |
| Howard W. Alcorn | Suffield | Republican | 1931 |
| William Hanna | Bethel | Republican | 1933, 1935 |
| J. Mortimer Bell | Salisbury | Republican | 1937 |
| Walter Howe | Litchfield | Republican | 1939 |
| Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr. | Suffield | Republican | 1941 |
| Harold E. Mitchell | West Hartford | Republican | 1943 |
| E. Lea Marsh Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1945 |
| Frederick H. Holbrook | Madison | Republican | 1947 |
| John R. Thim | Hamden | Republican | 1949 |
| Mansfield D. Sprague | New Canaan | Republican | 1951 |
| Arthur E. B. Tanner | Woodbury | Republican | 1953 |
| W. Sheffield Cowles | Farmington | Republican | 1955 |
| Nelson C. L. Brown, II | Groton | Republican | 1957 |
| William J. O'Brien Jr. | Portland | Democratic | 1959 |
| Anthony E. Wallace | Simsbury | Republican | 1961 |
| J. Tyler Patterson Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1963-1965 |
| Robert J. Testo | Bridgeport | Democratic | 1967 |
| William R. Ratchford | Danbury | Democratic | 1969-1973 |
| Francis J. Collins | Brookfield Center | Republican | 1973-1975 |
| James J. Kennelly | Hartford | Democratic | 1975-1979 |
| Ernest N. Abate | Stamford | Democratic | 1979-1983 |
| Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1983-1985 |
| R. E. Van Norstrand | Darien | Republican | 1985-1987 |
| Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1987-1989 |
| Richard J. Balducci | Newington | Democratic | 1989-1993 |
| Thomas D. Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 1993-1999 |
| Moira K. Lyons | Stamford | Democratic | 1999-2005 |
| James A. Amann | Milford | Democratic | 2005-2009 |
| Christopher G. Donovan | Meriden | Democratic | 2009-2013 |
| J. Brendan Sharkey | Hamden | Democratic | 2013-2017 |
| Joe Aresimowicz | Berlin | Democratic | 2017-2021 |
| Matthew Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 2021- |