List of speakers of the New Hampshire House of Representatives

Speaker of New Hampshire House of Representatives
Incumbent Sherman Packard since January 6, 2021
Status	Presiding officer
Seat	New Hampshire State House, Concord
Appointer	New Hampshire House of Representatives
Inaugural holder	Richard Waldron Jr.

The following is a list of speakers of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from colonial period and since statehood in 1788.

Colonial period

Speaker	Term	Party	Residence	Notes
Richard Waldron Jr.	1684–1692		Portsmouth	[1]
Richard Martin	1692		Portsmouth	[1]
John Gilman	1692–1693		Exeter	[1]
John Pickering	1693–1695		Portsmouth	[1]
George Jaffrey	1695–1696		Portsmouth	[1]
John Plaisted	1696–1697		Portsmouth	[1]
John Pickering	1697–1698		Portsmouth	[1]
Henry Dow	1698		Hampton	[1]
John Pickering	1698–1699		Portsmouth	[1]
Samuel Penhallow	1699–1702		Portsmouth	[1]
John Pickering	1702		Portsmouth	[1]
Daniel Tilton	1702–1703		Hampton	[1]
John Pickering	1703–1709		Portsmouth	[1]
Mark Hunking	1709–1710		Portsmouth	[1]
Richard Garrish	1710–1717		Portsmouth	[1]
John Plaisted	1717		Portsmouth	[1]
Thomas Packer	1717–1719		Portsmouth	[1]
Joshua Pierce	1719–1722		Portsmouth	[1]
Peter Weare	1722–1727		Hampton Falls	[1]
Nathaniel Weare	1727–1728		Hampton Falls	[1]
Andrew Wiggin	1728–1745		Stratham	[1]
Nathaniel Rogers	1745		Portsmouth	[1]
Ebenezer Stevens	1745–1749		Kingston	[1]
Richard Waldron	1749–1752		Hampton	[1]
Meshech Weare	1752–1755		Hampton Falls	[1]
Peter Sherburne	1755–1765		Portsmouth	[1]
Peter Gilman	1765–1771		Exeter	[1]
John Wentworth	1771–1776		Somersworth	[1]
Phillips White	1776		South Hampton	[1]
John Langdon	1776–1782		Portsmouth	[1]
John Dudley	1782–1784		Raymond	[1]
George Atkinson	1784–1785		Portsmouth	[1]
John Sullivan	1785–1786		Durham	[1]
John Langdon	1786–1787		Portsmouth	[1]
John Sparhawk	1787		Portsmouth	[1]

Since statehood

Speaker	Term	Party	Residence	Notes
Thomas Bartlett	1787–1791		Nottingham	[1]
William Plumer	1791–1793		Epping	[1]
Nathaniel Peabody	1793–1794		Atkinson	[1]
John Prentice	1794–1795		Langdon	[1]
Russell Freeman	1795–1797		Hanover	[1]
William Plumer	1797–1798		Epping	[1]
John Prentice	1798–1805		Langdon	[1]
Samuel Bell	1805–1807		Chester	[1]
Charles Cutts	1807–1809		Portsmouth	[1]
George B. Upham	1809–1810		Claremont	[1]
Charles Cutts	1810–1811		Portsmouth	[1]
Clement Storer	1811–1813		Portsmouth	[1]
Thomas W. Thompson	1813–1815		Concord	[1]
George B. Upham	1815–1816		Claremont	[1]
David L. Morrill	1816–1817		Concord	[1]
Henry B. Chase	1817–1818		Warner	[1]
Matthew Harvey	1818–1821		Hopkinton	[1]
Ichabod Bartlett	1821–1822		Dover	[1]
Charles Woodman	1822–1823		Bridgwater	[1]
Andrew Pierce	1823	Democratic	Dover	[1]
Edmund Parker	1823–1825	Democratic	Nashua	[1]
Levi Woodbury	1825	Democratic	Portsmouth	[1]
Henry Hubbard	1825–1828	Democratic	Charlestown	[1]
James Wilson Jr.	1828–1829	Democratic	Keene	[1]
James B. Thornton	1827–1829	Democratic	Merrimack	[1]
Samuel Webster	1829–1831	Democratic	Kingston	[1]
Franklin Pierce	1831–1833	Democratic	Hillsborough	[1]
Charles G. Atherton	1835–1837	Democratic	Nashua	[1]
Ira A. Eastman	1837–1839	Democratic	Gilmanton	[1]
Moses Norris Jr.	1839–1841	Democratic	Pittsfield	[1]
John S. Wells	1841–1842	Democratic	Lancaster	[1]
Samuel Swasey	1842–1844	Democratic	Haverhill	[1]
Harry Hibbard	1844–1846	Democratic	Bath	[1]
John P. Hale	1846–1847	Democratic	Dover	[1]
Moses Norris Jr.	1847–1848	Democratic	Pittsfield	[1]
Samuel H. Ayer	1848–1850		Hillsborough	[1]
Nathaniel B. Baker	1850–1852	Democratic	Concord	[1]
George W. Kittredge	1852–1853	Democratic	Newmarket	[1]
Jonathan Everett Sargent	1853–1854	Republican	Wentworth	[1]
Francis R. Chase	1854–1855	Republican	Northfield	[1]
John J. Prentiss	1855–1856	Republican	Claremont	[1]
Edward H. Rollins	1856–1858	Republican	Concord	[1]
Napolean B. Bryant	1858–1860	Republican	Plymouth	[1]
Charles H. Bell	1860–1861	Republican	Exeter	[1]
Edward A. Rollins	1861–1863	Republican	Great Falls	[1]
William E. Chandler	1863–1865	Republican	Concord	[1]
Austin F. Pike	1865–1867	Republican	Franklin	[1]
Simon G. Griffin	1867–1869	Republican	Keene	[1]
Samuel M. Wheeler	1869–1871	Republican	Dover	[1]
William H. Gove	1871–1872	Republican	Weare	[1]
Asa Fowler	1872–1873	Republican	Concord	[1]
James Emery	1873–1874	Republican	Hudson	[1]
Albert R. Hatch	1874–1875	Republican	Portsmouth	[1]
Charles P. Sanborn	1875–1877	Republican	Concord	[1]
Augustus A. Woolson	1877–1879	Republican	Lisbon	[1]
Henry H. Huse	1879–1881	Republican	Manchester	[1]
Chester B. Jordan	1881–1883	Republican	Lancaster	[1]
Samuel C. Eastman	1883–1885	Republican	Concord	[1]
Edgar Aldrich	1885–1887	Republican	Colebrook	[1]
Alvin Burleigh	1887–1889	Republican	Plymouth	[1]
Hiram D. Upton	1889–1891	Republican	Jaffrey	[1]
Frank G. Clarke	1891–1893	Republican	Peterborough	[1]
Robert N. Chamberlain	1893–1895	Republican	Berlin	[1]
Stephen S. Jewett	1895–1897	Republican	Laconia	[1]
James F. Briggs	1897–1899	Republican	Manchester	[1]
Frank D. Currier	1899–1901	Republican	Canaan	[1]
Cyrus H. Little	1901–1903	Republican	Manchester	[1]
Harry N. Cheney	1903–1905	Republican	Lebanon	[1]
Rufus N. Elwell	1905–1907	Republican	Exeter	[1]
Bertram Ellis	1907–1909	Republican	Keene	[1]
Frank A. Musgrove	1911–1913	Republican	Hanover	[1] [2]
William J. Britton	1913–1915	Republican	Wolfeboro	[2]
Olin H. Chase	1915	Republican	Newport	[2] [1]
Edwin C. Bean	1915	Republican	Belmont	[2] [1]
Arthur P. Morrill	1915–1919	Republican	Concord	[2] [1]
Charles W. Tobey	1919–1921	Republican	Temple	[2] [1]
Fred A. Jones	1921–1923	Republican	Lebanon	[2] [1]
William J. Ahern	1923–1925	Democratic	Concord	[2] [1]
George A. Wood	1925–1927	Republican	Portsmouth	[2] [1]
Harold K. Davison	1927–1929	Republican	Haverhill	[2] [1]
George A. Foster	1929–1931	Republican	Concord	[2] [1]
Harold M. Smith	1931–1933	Republican	Portsmouth	[2] [1]
Louis P. Elkins	1933–1935	Republican	Concord	[2] [1]
Amos N. Blandin	1935–1937	Democratic	Bath	[2] [1]
Oren V. Handerson	1937–1939	Republican	Durham	[2] [1]
Ansel N. Sanborn	1939–1941	Republican	Wakefield	[2] [1]
Charles H. Barnard	1941–1943	Republican	Manchester	[2] [1]
Sherman Adams	1943–1945	Republican	Lincoln	[2] [1]
Norris Cotton	1945–1947	Republican	Lebanon	[2] [1]
J. Walker Wiggin	1947–1949	Republican	Manchester	[2] [1]
Richard F. Upton	1949–1951	Republican	Concord	[2] [1]
Lane Dwinell	1951–1953	Republican	Lebanon	[2] [1]
Raymond K. Perkins	1953	Republican	Concord	[2] [1]
Norman A. McMeekin	1954	Republican	Haverhill	[2] [1]
Charles Griffin	1955	Republican	Lincoln	[2] [1]
Doug Scamman Sr.	1957–1958	Republican	Stratham	[2] [1]
Stewart Lamprey	1959–1965	Republican	Moultonborough	[2] [1]
Walter R. Peterson Jr.	1965–1969	Republican	Peterborough	[2]
Marshall W. Cobleigh	1969–1973	Republican	Manchester	[2]
James E. O'Neill	1973–1975	Republican	Chesterfield	[2]
George B. Roberts Jr.	1975–1981	Republican	Alton	[2]
John B. Tucker	1981–1987	Republican	Claremont	[2]
Doug Scamman Jr.	1987–1990	Republican	Stratham	[3]
Harold W. Burns	1990–1996	Republican	Whitefield	[3]
Donna Sytek	1996–2000	Republican	Salem	[3]
Gene Chandler	2000–2004	Republican	Bartlett	[3]
Doug Scamman Jr.	2004–2006	Republican	Stratham	[3]
Terie Norelli	2006–2010	Democratic	Portsmouth
William L. O'Brien	2010–2012	Republican	Mont Vernon
Terie Norelli	2012–2014	Democratic	Portsmouth
Shawn Jasper	2014–2017	Republican	Hudson
Gene Chandler	2017–2018	Republican	Bartlett
Steve Shurtleff	2018–2020	Democratic	Concord
Dick Hinch	2020	Republican	Merrimack
Sherman Packard	2021–	Republican	Londonderry

See also

• List of New Hampshire General Courts

References

1. Stark, Robert L. (1965). State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court No. 39 (PDF). Concord, New Hampshire: Department of State of New Hampshire. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
2. Sharp, Nancy Weatherly; Sharp, James Roger (August 30, 2000). American Legislative Leaders in the Northeast, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   9780313032080 – via Google Books.
3. Gardner, William M. (2005). State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court No. 59. Concord, New Hampshire: Department of State of New Hampshire. Retrieved December 15, 2023.