Speaker of the Legislature of Nebraska | |
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since January 4, 2023 | |
Type | Speaker |
Member of | Nebraska Legislature |
Term length | Two years |
Formation | 1937 |
First holder | Charles J. Warner |
The speaker of the Nebraska Legislature is the highest-ranking officer elected from among the membership of the Nebraska Legislature. The speaker presides over the body in the absence of the lieutenant governor. [1] The speaker is generally recognized to be the parliamentary leader of the Nebraska Legislature and, with the approval of the executive board, determines the legislative agenda (the order in which bills and resolutions are considered). [2] The speaker has the privilege of speaking at any stage of the legislature's proceedings in accordance with his or her responsibilities as speaker. [3]
The speaker is second in line to become the Governor of Nebraska if both the offices of governor and lieutenant governor become simultaneously vacant. [4]
Before the creation of this office, Nebraska had a bicameral legislature, and the leaders of the upper and lower houses were, respectively, the president pro tempore of the Nebraska Senate and the speaker of the Nebraska House of Representatives. [5]
The following is a list of the speakers of the Nebraska Legislature since it became a unicameral body in 1937. [5]
# | Image | Name | Party [lower-alpha 1] | Tenure | District [lower-alpha 2] | City of residence | Notes |
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1 | Charles J. Warner | Rep | 1937–1938 | 25 (18) | Waverly | Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska; Father of Jerome Warner, the 18th Speaker; Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from June 26 to Nov. 8, 1938 | |
2 | William H. Diers | Dem | 1939–1940 | 24 | Gresham | ||
3 | Rufus M. Howard | Rep | 1941–1942 | 44 (39) | Sutherland | ||
4 | Robert B. Crosby | Rep | 1943–1944 | 45 (38) | North Platte | Later served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Nebraska | |
5 | C. Petrus Peterson | Rep | 1945–1946 | 29 (20) | Lincoln | ||
6 | Walter R. Raecke | Dem | 1947–1948 | 35 (30) | Central City | ||
7 | Earl J. Lee | Rep | 1949–1950 | 15 (11) | Fremont | ||
8 | C. Edward Hoyt | Rep | 1951–1952 | 38 (33) | McCook | Resigned as senator to accept appointment of Gov. Robert Crosby as assistant agriculture director [6] | |
9 | Otto Julius Prohs | Rep | 1952 | 48 (42) | Gering | Selected to finish the term of Speaker Hoyt | |
10 | Charles F. Tvrdik | Dem | 1953–1954 | 7 | Omaha | ||
11 | Dwight W. Burney | Rep | 1955–1956 | 19 (14) | Hartington | Later served as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Nebraska; Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Sep. 24, 1955, to Jan. 1, 1957 | |
12 | John E. Beaver | Rep | 1957–1958 | 16 (12) | Beemer | ||
13 | Harry L. Pizer | Rep | 1959–1960 | 45 (38) | North Platte | Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Sep. 9, 1960, to Jan. 3, 1961 | |
14 | Donald L. Thompson | Rep | 1961–1962 | 38 (33) | McCook | ||
15 | William S. Moulton | Rep | 1963–1964 | 8 (10) | Omaha | ||
16 | Kenneth L. Bowen | Rep | 1965–1966 | 37 | Red Cloud | ||
17 | Elvin Adamson | Rep | 1967–1968 | 43 | Valentine | ||
18 | Jerome Warner | Rep | 1969–1970 | 25 | Waverly | Son of Charles J. Warner, the first speaker | |
19 | William H. Hasebroock | Rep | 1971–1972 | 18 | West Point | ||
20 | Richard Proud | Rep | 1973–1974 | 12 | Omaha | ||
21 | Julius W. Burbach | Dem | 1975–1976 | 19 | Hartington | ||
22 | Roland A. Luedtke | Rep | 1977–1978 | 28 | Lincoln | Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska | |
23 | Richard D. Marvel | Rep | 1979–1982 | 33 | Hastings | ||
24 | William E. Nichol | Rep | 1983–1986 | 48 | Scottsbluff | Later served as Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska | |
25 | William E. Barrett | Rep | 1987–1990 | 39 | Lexington | Later served as a US Representative | |
26 | Dennis G. Baack | Rep | 1991–1992 | 47 | Kimball | ||
27 | Ron Withem | Dem | 1993–1996 | 14 | Papillion | ||
28 | Douglas A. Kristensen | Rep | 1997–2002 | 37 | Minden | Later became chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Kearney [7] | |
29 | Curt Bromm | Rep | 2003–2004 | 23 | Wahoo | ||
30 | Kermit Brashear | Rep | 2005–2006 | 4 | Omaha | Served during a vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor from Jan. 20 to Jan. 24, 2005 | |
31 | Mike Flood | Rep | 2007–2012 | 19 | Norfolk | Later served as a US Representative | |
32 | Greg L. Adams | Rep | 2013–2014 | 24 | York | Served during two vacancies in the office of lieutenant governor from Feb. 2 to Feb. 13, 2013, and from Sep. 9 to Sep. 29, 2014 | |
33 | Galen Hadley | Rep | 2015–2016 | 37 | Kearney | ||
34 | Jim Scheer | Rep | 2017–2020 | 19 | Norfolk | ||
35 | Mike Hilgers | Rep | 2021–2022 | 21 | Lincoln | Later became the Nebraska Attorney General | |
36 | John Arch | Rep | 2023–Present | 14 | La Vista |
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[T]he Legislature... shall choose its own officers, including a Speaker to preside when the Lieutenant Governor shall be absent, incapacitated, or shall act as Governor.
The Speaker, with the approval of the Executive Board, shall report to the Legislature the order in which bills and resolutions shall be considered.... The Speaker shall prepare a daily legislative agenda.
The Speaker ...shall be privileged to speak at any stage of proceedings at any time incident to the duties and responsibilities of his or her office.
In case of the conviction of the Governor on impeachment, his removal from office, his resignation or his death, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the Legislature and such other persons designated by law shall in that order be Governor for the remainder of the Governor's term.