Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives

The Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives is elected by fellow members of the Alabama House of Representatives. Several Speakers have held more than one term including non-consecutive terms. Republican Speakers held office during some of the Reconstruction era and then Democrats held the office until the 21st century.

Former Speakers

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Territorial Assembly

• Gabriel Moore (1818) Madison County
• John W. Walker (1818) Madison County

After statehood

• James Dellett (1819) Monroe County Whig
• George W. Owen 1820–1821) Monroe County
• James Dellett (1821)
• Arthur P. Bagby (1822–1823) Monroe County
• Samuel W. Oliver (1823) Conecuh Country, resigned
• William I. Adair (1824) Madison County
• Samuel Walker (1824) Madison County
• William Kelly (1825–1826) Madison County
• Samuel W. Oliver ((1826–1828) Conecuh County
• Clement C. Clay (1828–1829) Madison County
• John Gayle (Alabama politician) (1829–1830) Green County
• James Penn (1830–1832) Madison County
• Samuel W. Oliver (1832–1835), second stint
• James W. McClung (1835–1836) Madison County
• Arthur P. Bagby (1836–1837), second stint
• James W. McClung (1837–1839)
• John Dennis Phelan (1839–1840)
• Samuel Walker (Alabama politician)
• Robert A. Baker (1841), special session
• David Moore (1841) Madison County
• John Erwin (1842–1843) Greene County
• Andrew B. Moore (1843–1845)
• LeRoy Pope Walker (1847–1850) Lauderdale County
• John D. Rather (1851–1853) Morgan County
• William Garrett (1853–1854) Coosa County
• Richard W. Walker (1855–1856) Lauderdale County
• Crawford M. Jackson (1857–1858) Autauga County
• Alexander B. Meek (1859-1860 Mobile County
• Walter H. Crenshaw (1861–1865), Mobile County, also served as President of the Alabama Senate
• Thomas B. Cooper (1865–1867) ^[1] Cherokee County
• B. B. McCraw Chambers County - Republican Party
• George F. Harrington (1868–1870) Mobile County - Republican
• John P. Hubbard (1870–1872) Pike County - Democrat
• Lewis M. Stone (1872–1873) Pickens County - Democrat
• Lewis E. Parsons (1872–1873) Coosa County - Republican
• Decatur C. Anderson (1874–1876) Mobile County - Democrat
• Newton Clements (1876–1877) Tuscaloosa County - Democrat
• David Clopton (1878–1879) Montgomery County - Democrat
• Nathaniel H. R. Dawson (1880–1881)
• Wilbur F. Foster (1882–1883) Macon County - Democrat, helped found Tuskegee Institute as a Normal School to train black teachers
• Henry Clay Armstrong (1884–1885) Lee County, Democrat
• Thomas G. Jones (1886–1887) Montgomery County - Democrat
• Clement Clay Shorter (1888–1889) Barbour County - Democrat
• Newton Clemonts (1890–1891)
• Francis L. Pettus (1892–1893) Dallas County
• Thomas H. Clark (1894–1895) Montgomery County
• Newtown Coemonts (1896–1897), second stint
• Charles E. Waller (1898–1899) Hale County - Democrat
• Francis L. Pettus
• Alfred M. Tunstall (1903) Hale County - Democrat
• Charles C. Adams (Alabama politician)
• Roberts H. Brown
• William L. Martin
• Archibald H. Carmichael (February 26, 1907 – January 10, 1911)
• Edward B. Almon (1911)
• Archibald H. Carmichael, second term as speaker (January 12, 1915 – January 14, 1919)
• Henry P. Merritt (1919) Macon County - Democrat
• Seybourn A. Lynne (1920–1921) Morgan County - Democrat
• Hugh D. Merrill (1923–1927) Calhoun County - Democrat
• J. Lee Long (1927) Butler County - Democrat
• Alfred M. Tunstall (1931–1935)
• Robert H. Walker (1935–1937) Limestone County
• Hugh Davis Merrill (1939), second stint
• George O. Miller (1942–1943) Sumpter County - Democrat
• Charles D. Norman (1945) Bullock County - Democrat
• William M. Beck (1947–1949) DeKalb County - Democrat
• Roberts H. Brown (1951–1953) Lee County - Democrat
• Rankin Fite (1955–1957) Marion County - Democrat
• Charles C. Adams (Alabama politician) Tallapoosa County - Democrat
• Virgis M. Ashworth (1961) Bibb County - Democrat
• Albert Brewer (1963–1967) Morgan County - Democrat
• Rankin Fite (1967–1971), second stint
• G. Sage Lyons (1971–1975) Mobile County - Democrat
• Joe McCorquodale (1975–1983) Clarke County - Democrat
• Tom Drake Cullman County - Democrat
• James S. Clark (1987–1999) Barber County - Democrat
• Seth Hammett (1999 – November 3, 2010) Covington County - Democrat
• Mike Hubbard (November 3, 2010 – June 10, 2016) Lee County - Republican
• Victor Gaston (June 10, 2016 – August 15, 2016) Acting Speaker - Republican
• Mac McCutcheon (August 15, 2016 – November 9, 2022) Madison County - Republican
• Nathaniel Ledbetter, current, DeKalb County - Republican ^[2]

See also

• President of the Alabama Senate

References

1. Garrett, William (March 7, 1872). "Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama: For Thirty Years, with an Appendix". Plantation Publishing Company's Press – via Google Books.
2. "Alabama Legislature". alison.legislature.state.al.us.