The speaker of the United States House of Representatives,commonly known as the speaker of the House,is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I,Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer,de facto leader of the body's majority party,and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities,the speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party. Nor does the speaker regularly participate in floor debates.
Richard Keith Armey is an American economist and politician. He was a U.S. Representative from Texas's 26th congressional district (1985–2003) and House Majority Leader (1995–2003). He was one of the engineers of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s,in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades. Armey was one of the chief authors of the Contract with America. Armey is also an author and former economics professor. After his retirement from Congress,he has worked as a consultant,advisor,and lobbyist.
John Andrew Boehner is an American retired politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 8th congressional district from 1991 to 2015. The district included several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton.
Robert D. "Bob" McEwen is an American politician of the Republican Party,who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District,from January 3,1981 to January 3,1993. Tom Deimer of Cleveland's Plain Dealer described him as a "textbook Republican" who is opposed to abortion,gun control and high taxes. In the House,he criticized government incompetence and charged corruption by the Democratic majority that ran the House in the 1980s. McEwen,who had easily won three terms in the Ohio House,was elected to Congress at the age of thirty to replace a retiring representative in 1980 and easily won re-election five times.
Clarence Ellsworth Miller,Jr. was a Republican Congressman from Ohio,serving January 3,1967,to January 3,1993.
James Louis Chapman is an American business and political leader. From 1985 to 1997,he served as Democratic Congressman representing the Texas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. His home town was Sulphur Springs.
Leon William Paxon is an American lobbyist and former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
Elmer Greinert "Bud" Shuster is an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1973 to 2001. He is best known for his advocacy of transportation projects,including Interstate 99.
Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon was an American businessman and politician most notable for his long service as a member of the United States House of Representatives in New York.
Gregory Haines Laughlin is a politician from Texas. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
Eugene Vincent Atkinson was an American politician who served two-terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania,serving from 1979 to 1983.
Thomas J. Manton was an American politician who represented the 9th and 7th Congressional District of New York in the United States House of Representatives
The 48th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government,consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington,D.C. from March 4,1883,to March 4,1885,during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Tenth Census of the United States in 1880. The Senate had a Republican majority,and the House had a Democratic majority.
The United States House of Representatives,commonly known as the lower chamber of the United States Congress,along with the United States Senate,commonly known as the upper chamber,are the two parts of the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. Like its counterpart,the House was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on March 4,1789,at Federal Hall in New York City. The history of this institution begins several years prior to that date,at the dawn of the American Revolutionary War.
Thomas W. "Tom" Ewing is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the Illinois State House of Representatives. Ewing was a state representative from 1974 to 1991,and a U.S. Congressman representing the 15th district of Illinois from July 2,1991 until his retirement on January 3,2001. In January 1995 he was named a Deputy Republican House Whip. While a U.S. Congressman,Thomas Ewing was considered to be a Conservative,favoring a smaller,less intrusive government,but more on economic issues than on social ones.
Ohio's 6th congressional district is represented by Representative Bill Johnson (R-OH). This district runs along the southeast side of the state,bordering Kentucky,West Virginia,and Pennsylvania. It stretches from rural Lucasville through Athens and several older Ohio River industrial towns all the way to the Youngstown city limits.
William Franklin Goodling was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. At the time of his death,he was the Chairman of the Board of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy.
Gary Arthur Myers is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 25th congressional district from 1975 to 1979.
The United States House of Representatives,usually referred to as the House,is the lower chamber of the United States Congress,with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election took place on October 29,2015,during the 114th United States Congress. This unusual intra-term election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives was necessitated by the impending resignation of John Boehner from the speakership and the House,set for October 30. Boehner was the first speaker to resign in the middle of a Congressional term since Jim Wright in 1989.
