List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives

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Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives
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Alaskan state seal
Incumbent
Cathy Tilton
since January 18, 2023
Formation1913
First holderEarnest B. Collins
Mike Chenault is the longest-serving speaker, holding the office for four terms from 2009 to 2017. He is shown seated at the speaker's chair at the start of the 29th Legislature in January 2015. A large wood carving depicting the state seal hangs on the wall behind him. Mike Chenault at Speaker's Chair.jpg
Mike Chenault is the longest-serving speaker, holding the office for four terms from 2009 to 2017. He is shown seated at the speaker's chair at the start of the 29th Legislature in January 2015. A large wood carving depicting the state seal hangs on the wall behind him.
The front entrance to the Speaker's chambers in the Alaska State Capitol. AlaskaHouseOfRepresentativesSpeakersChambers.jpg
The front entrance to the Speaker's chambers in the Alaska State Capitol.

This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).

Contents

Speakers

Territorial House

No.NameImagePartyHometownDivisionTermLegislatures
1 Earnest B. Collins Republican Fox 4th1913 – 1917 First, Second
2 Luther C. Hess Democratic Fairbanks 4th1917 – 1919 Third
3 E. J. White Democratic Juneau 1st1919 – 1921 Fourth
4 Andrew Nerland RepublicanFairbanks4th1921 – 1923 Fifth
5 Cash Cole RepublicanJuneau1st1923 – 1925 Sixth
6 C. H. Wilcox Democratic Valdez 3rd1925 – 1927 Seventh
7 Sumner S. Smith Republican Anchorage 3rd1927 – 1929 Eighth
8 R. C. Rothenburg Independent Republican Fairbanks4th1929 – 1931 Ninth
9 Grover C. Winn RepublicanJuneau1st1931 – 1933 Tenth
10 Joe McDonald Democratic Ester Creek 4th1933 – 1935 Eleventh
11 Joseph S. Hofman Democratic Seward 3rd1935 – 1937 Twelfth
12 Joe Green Democratic Hyder 1st1937 – 1939 Thirteenth
13 Howard Lyng Democratic Nome 2nd1939 – 1941 Fourteenth
14 Herbert H. McCutcheon DemocraticAnchorage3rd1941 – 1943 Fifteenth
15 James V. Davis DemocraticJuneau1st1943 – 1945 Sixteenth
16 Jesse D. Lander DemocraticFairbanks4th1945 – 1947 Seventeenth
17 Oscar S. Gill RepublicanAnchorage3rd1947 – 1949 Eighteenth
18 Stanley McCutcheon DemocraticAnchorage3rd1949 – 1951 Nineteenth
19 William A. Egan William A. Egan.jpg DemocraticValdez3rd1951 – 1953 Twentieth
20 George Miscovich RepublicanFairbanks4th1953 – 1955 Twenty-First
21 Wendell P. Kay Wendell P. Kay.jpg DemocraticAnchorage3rd1955 – 1957 Twenty-Second
22 Richard J. Greuel DemocraticFairbanks4th1957 – 1959 Twenty-Third

State House

No.NameImagePartyHometownDistrictTermLegislatures
1 Warren A. Taylor Democratic Fairbanks 191959 – 1963 First, Second
2 Bruce Kendall Republican Anchorage 81963 – 1965 Third
3 Mike Gravel Mike Gravel 1973.jpg DemocraticAnchorage81965 – 1967 Fourth
4 William K. Boardman Republican Ketchikan 11967 – 1969 Fifth
5 Jalmar M. Kerttula Jay Kerttula.jpg Democratic Palmer 71969 – 1971 Sixth
6 Gene Guess GuessGene.jpg DemocraticAnchorage81971 – 1973 Seventh
7 Tom Fink Tom Fink.jpg RepublicanAnchorage81973 – 1975 Eighth
8 Mike Bradner Mike Bradner.jpg DemocraticFairbanks201975 – 1977 Ninth
9 Hugh Malone Hugh Malone 1977.jpg Democratic Kenai 131977 – 1979 Tenth
10 Terry Gardiner Terry Gardiner 1977.jpg DemocraticKetchikan11979 – 1981 Eleventh
11 Jim Duncan Jim Duncan 1977.jpg Democratic Juneau 41981 – 1981 Twelfth
12 Joseph L. Hayes Joe L. Hayes.jpg Republican
(Tri-Partisan Coalition)
Anchorage12, 91981 – 1985 Twelfth, Thirteenth
13 Ben F. Grussendorf Democratic Sitka 31985 – 1989 Fourteenth, Fifteenth
14 Samuel R. Cotten Sam Cotten.jpg Democratic Eagle River 151989 – 1991 Sixteenth
15 Ben F. Grussendorf DemocraticSitka31991 – 1993 Seventeenth
16 Ramona L. Barnes Ramona Barnes.jpg Republican
(Republican majority coalition)
Anchorage221993 – 1995 Eighteenth
17 Gail Phillips Republican Homer 71995 – 1999 Nineteenth, Twentieth
18 Brian Porter RepublicanAnchorage201999 – 2003 Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
19 Pete Kott RepublicanEagle River172003 – 2005 Twenty-Third
20 John Harris RepublicanValdez122005 – 2009 Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth
21 Mike Chenault Mike Chenault crop.jpg Republican Nikiski 342009 – 2017 Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth
22 Bryce Edgmon 2013 edgmon portrait.jpg Democratic Dillingham 372017 – 2021 Thirtieth, Thirty-first
Independent
(Democratic majority coalition)
23 Louise Stutes Republican
(Democratic majority coalition)
Kodiak322021 – 2023 Thirty-second
23 Cathy Tilton Republican
(Republican majority coalition)
Wasilla262023 – 2025 Thirty-third
24 Bryce Edgmon 2013 edgmon portrait.jpg Independent
(Democratic majority coalition)
Dillingham 372025 – present Thirty-fourth

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