List of speakers of the Utah House of Representatives

Speaker of Utah House of Representatives
Incumbent Mike Schultz since November 15, 2023
Status	Presiding officer
Seat	Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City
Appointer	Utah House of Representatives
Inaugural holder	Presley Denny

The following is a list of speakers of the Utah House of Representatives since statehood.

Speakers of the Utah House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Presley Denny	1896–1897		Beaver County		[1]
John M. Perkins	1897–1899		Weber County		[1]
William Roylance	1899–1901	Democratic	Utah County		[1]
William Glasmann	1901–1903	Republican	Weber County		[1]
Thomas Hull	1903–1907		Salt Lake County		[1]
Harry Joseph	1907–1909		Salt Lake County		[1]
Edward Robinson	1909–1913		Cache County		[1]
William J. Seely	1913–1915	Republican	Emery County		[2]
Lewis R. Anderson	1915–1917	Republican	Sanpete County		[2]
John F. Tolton	1917–1919	Democratic	Beaver County		[2]
Charles C. Richards	1919–1921	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[2]
Edward R. Callister	1921–1923	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
William W. Seegmiller	1923–1925	Republican	Kane County		[2]
William E. McKell	1925–1927	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Samuel M. Jorgensen	1927–1929	Republican	Sevier County		[2]
David Lowe Stine	1929–1931	Republican	Weber County		[2]
James C. Hacking	1931–1933	Republican	Uintah County		[2]
Isaac A. Smoot	1933–1935	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[2]
Walter K. Granger	1935–1937	Democratic	Iron County		[2]
Joseph W. Jensen	1937–1939	Democratic	Weber County		[2]
Heber Bennion Jr.	1939–1941	Democratic	Daggett County		[2]
Sheldon R. Brewster	1941–1943	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[2]
William Rulon White	1943–1947	Democratic	Weber County		[2]
Rendell Mabey	1947–1949	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Ed J. McPolin	1949–1951	Democratic	Summit County		[2]
Clifton Kerr	1951–1953	Republican	Box Elder County		[2]
Merrill K. Davis	1953–1955	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Charles Eric Peterson	1955–1957	Republican	Utah County		[2]
Jaren L. Jones	1957–1959	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Sheldon R. Brewster	1959–1961	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[1]
Ernest H. Dean	1961–1963	Democratic	Utah County		[2]
Charles Welch Jr.	1963–1965	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Kay C. Allen	1965–1967	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[2]
Franklin W. Gunnell	1967–1969	Republican	Cache County		[2]
Lorin N. Pace	1969–1971	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Richard C. Howe	1971–1973	Democratic	Salt Lake County		[2]
Howard C. Nielson	1973–1975	Republican	Utah County		[2]
Ronald L. Rencher	1975–1977	Democratic	Weber County		[2]
Glade M. Sowards	1977–1979	Republican	Uintah County		[2]
James V. Hansen	1979–1981	Republican	Davis County		[2]
Norman H. Bangerter	1981–1985	Republican	Salt Lake County		[2]
Robert H. Garff	1985–1987	Republican	Davis County		[2]
Glen E. Brown	1987–1989	Republican	Summit County		[2]
Nolan E. Karras	1989–1991	Republican	Weber County		[2]
Craig Moody	1991–1993	Republican	Salt Lake County		[1]
Rob Bishop	1992–1994	Republican	Box Elder County		[1]
Melvin R. Brown	1994–1998	Republican	Summit County		[1]
Martin Stephens	1998–2005	Republican	Salt Lake County		[3] [1]
Greg Curtis	2005–2009	Republican	Salt Lake County		[1]
David Clark	2008–2011	Republican	Washington County		[1]
Rebecca D. Lockhart	2011–2015	Republican	Utah County		[1]
Greg Hughes	2015–2018	Republican	Salt Lake County		[1]
Brad Wilson	2019–2023	Republican	Davis County
Mike Schultz	2023–	Republican	Weber County

Speakers of the Utah Territorial House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
William Wines Phelps	1851–1852		Great Salt Lake		[4]
Jedediah M. Grant	1852–1854		Great Salt Lake		[4]
Hosea Stout	1856–1857		Great Salt Lake		[4]
John Taylor	1857–1862		Great Salt Lake		[4] [5]
Orson Pratt	1862–1863		Salt Lake		[4]
John Taylor	1863–1868		Great Salt Lake		[4]
Orson Pratt	1869–1880		Salt Lake		[4]
Francis M. Lyman	1881–1882		Tooele		[4]
James Sharp	1884–1886		Salt Lake		[4]
William W. Riter	1886–1890		Salt Lake		[4] [6]
James Sharp	1890–1892		Salt Lake		[4] [7]
William H. Seegmiller	1892–1894		Sevier		[4]
Albion B. Emery	1894–1896		Park City		[4]

References

1. Brown, Adam R. (2018). Utah politics and government: American democracy among a unique electorate. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN   9781496207852.
2. Sharp, James Roger; Sharp, Nancy Weatherly (1999). American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911–1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   9780313302121.
3. "House Speaker Stephens packs up with a smile". Deseret News. December 29, 2004.
4. Utah State Archives (2007). "Territory of Utah Legislative Assembly Rosters 1851-1894" (PDF). Retrieved December 21, 2023.
5. "Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, of the ... annual session, for the years ... 1868". HathiTrust.
6. "Journal 1886". HathiTrust.
7. "House journal of the ... session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Sess. 29 (1890)". HathiTrust.