List of Speakers of the California State Assembly

Table columns:
Speaker
Portrait
District
Party
Term of service

Table rows:
cells: 1. Thomas J. White
Sacramento
unaffiliated 1
December 1849–February 1850
cells: 2. John Bigler
Sacramento
Democratic
February 1850–May 1851
cells: 3. Richard P. Hammond
7
Democratic
January 1852–May 1852
cells: 4. Isaac B. Wall
6
Democratic
January 1853–May 1853
cells: 5. Charles S. Fairfax
15
Democratic
January 1854–May 1854
cells: 6. William W. Stow
3
Whig
January 1855–May 1855
cells: 7. James T. Farley
19
American
January 1856–April 1856
cells: 8. Elwood T. Beatty
19
Democratic
January 1857–April 1857
cells: 9. Ninian E. Whiteside
15
Democratic
January 1858–April 1858
cells: 10. William C. Stratton
17
Democratic
January 1859–April 1859
cells: 11. Phillip Moore
16
Democratic
January 1860–April 1860
cells: 12. R. Burnell
19
Douglas Democratic
January 1861–May 1861
cells: 13. George Barstow
8
Republican
January 1862–May 1862
cells: 14. Tim N. Machin
National Union
January 1863–April 1863
cells: 15. William H. Sears
21
National Union
December 1863–April 1864
cells: 16. John Yule
20
National Union
December 1865–April 1866
cells: 17. Caius T. Ryland
4
Democratic
December 1867–March 1868
cells: 18. George H. Rogers
8
Democratic
December 1869–April 1870
cells: 19. Thomas Bowles Shannon
8
Republican
December 1871–April 1872
cells: 20. Morris M. Estee
8
Independent 2
December 1873–March 1874
cells: 21. Gideon J. Carpenter
23
Democratic
December 1875–April 1876
cells: 22. Campbell Polson Berry
25
Democratic
December 1877–April 1878
cells: 23. Jabez F. Cowdery
13
Republican
January 1880–April 1880
cells: 24. William H. Parks
25
Republican
January 1881–May 1881
cells: 25. Hugh M. La Rue
18
Democratic
January 1883–May 1884
cells: – William H. Parks
25
Republican
January 1885–September 1886
cells: 26. William H. Jordan
Republican
January 1887–March 1887
cells: 27. Robert Howe
25
Democratic
January 1889–March 1889
cells: 28. Frank Leslie Coombs
Republican
January 1891–March 1891
cells: 29. Frank H. Gould
Democratic
January 1893–March 1893
cells: 30. John C. Lynch
8
Republican
January 1895–March 1895
cells: – Frank Leslie Coombs
Republican
January 1897–March 1897
cells: 31. Howard E. Wright
Republican
January 1899
cells: 32. Alden Anderson
Republican
January 1899–February 1900
cells: 33. Cornelius W. Pendleton
Republican
January 1901–March 1901
cells: 34. Arthur G. Fisk
Republican
January 1903–March 1903
cells: 35. Frank C. Prescott
Republican
January 1905–June 1906
cells: 36. Robert L. Beardslee Sr.
Republican
January 1907–November 1907
cells: 37. Philip A. Stanton
Republican
January 1909–October 1910
cells: 38. Arthur Hathaway Hewitt
Republican
January 1911–December 1911
cells: 39. C. C. Young
Republican, Progressive 3
January 1913–April 1917
cells: 40. Henry W. Wright
Republican
January 1919–April 1921
cells: 41. Frank F. Merriam
Republican
January 1923–October 1926
cells: 42. Edgar C. Levey
Republican
January 1927–May 1931
cells: 43. Walter J. Little
Republican
January 1933–July 1933
cells: 44. Forsythe Charles Clowdsley
Democratic
September 1934 (extraordinary session)
cells: 45. Edward Craig
Republican
January 1935–May 1936
cells: 46. William Moseley Jones
Democratic
January 1937–March 1938
cells: 47. Paul Peek
Democratic
January 1939–June 1939
cells: 48. Gordon Hickman Garland
Democratic
January 1940–January 1942
cells: 49. Charles W. Lyon
59
Republican
January 1943–July 1946
cells: 50. Sam L. Collins
75
Republican
January 1947–August 1952
cells: 51. James W. Silliman
34
Republican
January 1953–April 1954
cells: 52. Luther H. Lincoln
15
Republican
January 1955–April 1958
cells: 53. Ralph M. Brown
30
Democratic
January 1959–September 1961
cells: 54. Jesse M. Unruh
65
Democratic
September 1961–January 1969
cells: 55. Robert T. Monagan
12
Republican
January 1969–September 1970
cells: 56. Bob Moretti
42
Democratic
January 1971–June 1974
cells: 57. Leo T. McCarthy
19/184
Democratic
June 1974–November 1980
cells: 58. Willie Brown
17/135
Democratic
December 2, 1980–June 5, 1995
cells: 59. Doris Allen
67
Republican 6
June 5, 1995–September 14, 1995
cells: 60. Brian Setencich
30
Republican 6
September 14, 1995–January 4, 1996
cells: 61. Curt Pringle
68
Republican
January 4, 1996–November 30, 1996
cells: 62. Cruz M. Bustamante
31
Democratic
December 2, 1996–February 26, 1998
cells: 63. Antonio Villaraigosa
45
Democratic
February 26, 1998–April 13, 2000
cells: 64. Robert M. Hertzberg
40
Democratic
April 13, 2000–February 6, 2002
cells: 65. Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
47
Democratic
February 6, 2002–February 9, 2004
cells: 66. Fabian Núñez
46
Democratic
February 9, 2004–May 13, 2008
cells: 67. Karen Bass
47
Democratic
May 13, 2008–March 1, 2010
cells: 68. John Pérez
46/537
Democratic
March 1, 2010–May 12, 2014
cells: 69. Toni Atkins
78
Democratic
May 12, 2014–March 7, 2016
cells: 70. Anthony Rendon
63
Democratic
March 7, 2016–present

Questions about this table:
originalText: who is the speaker of the house in california
answer: answerTexts: Anthony Rendon