List of speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives

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The speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The speaker is elected by other members of the House for a two-year term. The current Speaker is Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville). Sexton was elected and took over from Acting-Speaker Bill Dunn, who assumed office upon the resignation of Glen Casada, effective August 2, 2019. [1]

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Speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives [2]
NameTermPartyLifeNotes
David Wilson1794–1795c. 1752–1803Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives
Joseph Hardin 1795–17961734–1801Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives
James Stuart1796–1799c. 1751–1816
William Dickson 1799–1803 Democratic-Republican 1770–1816
James Stuart1803–1805c. 1751–1816
Robert Coleman Foster 1805–18071769–1844
John Tipton1807–18091767-1831
Joseph Dickson 1809–1811 Federalist 1745–1825
Thomas Henderson [3] 1811-1812Democratic-Republican1742-c.1827/32
John Cocke 1812–1813Democratic-Republican1772–1854
Thomas Claiborne 1813–1815 Democratic 1780–1856
James Fentress 1815–1817Democratic1763–1843
Thomas Williamson1817–18191767–1825
James Fentress 1819–1825Democratic1763–1843
William Brady1825–1827d. 1835
John H. Camp1827–18291783–1829
Ephraim H. Foster 1829–18311794–1854
Frederick W. Huling1831–1835Democratic
Ephraim H. Foster 1835–1837 Whig 1794–1854
John Cocke 1837–1839Whig1772–1854
Jonas E. Thomas1839–1841Democratic1803–1856
Burchet Douglass1841–1842Whig1793–1849
Franklin Buchanan1842–1843Whigc. 1813–1851
Daniel L. Barringer 1843–1845Whig1788–1852
Brookins Campbell 1845–1847Democratic1808–1853
Franklin Buchanan1847–1849Whigc. 1813–1851
Landon Carter Haynes 1849–1851Democratic1816–1875
Jordan Stokes1851–1853Whig1817–1886
William H. Wisener 1853–1855Whig1812–1882
Neill S. Brown 1855–1857Whig1818–1878
Daniel S. Donelson 1857–1859Democratic1801–1863
Washington C. Whitthorne 1859–1861Democratic1825–1891
Edwin A. Keeble 1861–1862Democratic1807–1868The state government was replaced by a military government in 1862
William Heiskell 1865–1867Conservative Republican1788–1871Confusion over apparent resignation in July 1866 for refusing to sign the 14th Amendment
F.S. Richardson1867–1869 Radical Republican
William O'Neal Perkins1869–1871Conservative Republican1815–1895
James D. Richardson 1871–1873Democratic1843–1914New state constitution adopted in 1870
William S. McGaughey1873–1875Democratic1821–1889
Lewis Bond1875–1877Democratic1839–1878
Edwin T. Taliaferro1877–1879Democratic1849–1919
Henry P. Fowlkes1879–1881Democratic1843–1817
Henry B. Ramsey1881–1883 Republican 1847–1897
Washington L. Ledgerwood1883–1885Democratic1843–1911
James A. Manson1885–1887Democratic1842–1901
Walter L. Clapp1887–1891Democratic1850–1901
Thomas R. Myers1891–1893Democratic1840–1919
Ralph Davis1893Democratic1866–1952
Julius A. Trousdale1893–1895Democratic1840–1899
John A. Tipton1895–1897Democratic1858–1925
Morgan C. Fitzpatrick 1897–1899Democratic1868–1908
Joseph W. Byrns 1899–1901Democratic1869–1936
Edgar B. Wilson 1901–1903Democratic1874–1953
Lawrence Tyson 1903–1905Democratic1861–1929
William K. Abernathy1905–1907Democratic1870–1940
John T. Cunningham1907–1909Democratic1877–1945
Matthew H. Taylor 1909–1911Democratic1884–1965
Albert M. Leach1911–1913Democratic1859–1926
William M. Stanton1913–1915Democratic1890–1957
William P. Cooper 1915–1917Democratic1870–1961
Clyde Shropshire1917–1919Democratic1866–1949
Seth M. Walker1919–1921Democratic1892–1951
Andrew L. Todd Sr. 1921–1923Democratic1872–1945
Frank S. Hall 1923–1925Democratic1890–1958
William F. Barry1925–1927Democratic1900–1967
Selden Maiden1927–1929Democratic1883–1949
Charles H. Love1929–1931Democratic1874–1950
Walter M. Haynes 1931–1933Democratic1897–1967
Frank W. Moore1933–1935Democratic1905–1982
Walter M. Haynes1935–1939Democratic1897–1967
John Ed O'Dell 1939–1943Democratic1906–1956
James J. Broome1943–1945Democratic1884–1952
George Woods1945–1947Democratic1913–1982
William Buford Lewallen 1947–1949Democratic1920–2003
McAllen Foutch 1949–1953Democratic1909–1996
James L. Bomar Jr. 1953–1963Democratic1914–2001
Dick Barry 1963–1967Democratic1926–2013
James H. Cummings 1967–1969Democratic1890–1979
Bill Jenkins 1969–1971Republican1936–
James R. McKinney 1971–1973Democratic1931–1992
Ned McWherter 1973–1987Democratic1930–2011
Ed Murray 1987–1991Democratic1928–2009
Jimmy Naifeh 1991–2009Democratic1939–
Kent Williams 2009–2011Republican1949–
Beth Harwell 2011–2019Republican1957–First woman to serve as Speaker of the House
Glen Casada 2019Republican1959–Resigned
Cameron Sexton 2019–presentRepublican1970–Elected Speaker on August 23, 2019

See also

References

  1. ↑ "After 3 months of scandal, Glen Casada is no longer speaker of the Tennessee House". The Tennessean .
  2. ↑ "Historical Constitutional Officers Of Tennessee 1796 - Present Territory South Of The River Ohio 1790 - 1796" (PDF). tn.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  3. ↑ Cressy-Kent, Rachel (June 15, 2020). Senator Thomas Henderson: A Man Who Helped Make America Great (1742-C. 1827/32). ISBN   9798654105332.
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