Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives

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The Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.

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Speakers, 1699-1818

A list of speakers of the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1699 to 1818 is available at [1]

Speakers since 1818

PictureNameTownPolitical partyTerm of service
David Plant Stratford Toleration Republican 1819, 1820
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Elisha Phelps Simsbury Toleration Republican 1821
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Seth P. Beers Litchfield Toleration Republican 1822, 1823
Ralph I. Ingersoll New Haven Toleration Republican 1824
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Samuel A. Foot Cheshire National Republican1825, 1826
Ebenezer Young Killingly National Republican1827, 1828
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Elisha Phelps SimsburyNational Republican1829
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Henry W. Edwards New HavenJacksonian1830
Martin Welles Wethersfield National Republican1831, 1832
Samuel Ingham Saybrook Jacksonian1833
Roger Huntington Norwich National Republican1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834)
William L. Storrs Middletown National Republican1834
Samuel Ingham Saybrook Democratic 1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835)
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Chauncey F. Cleveland Hampton Democratic1835, 1836
Stillman K. Wightman MiddletownDemocratic1837
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William W. Boardman New Haven Whig 1838, 1839
Charles J. McCurdy Lyme Whig1840, 1841
Stillman K. Wightman MiddletownDemocratic1842
Noyes Billings New London Democratic1843
Charles J. McCurdy LymeWhig1844
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William W. Boardman NewHavenWhig1845
Cyrus H. Beardslee Monroe Democratic1846
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Lafayette S. Foster Norwich Whig1847, 1848
John C. Lewis Plymouth Free Soil Democratic 1849
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Origen S. Seymour LitchfieldDemocratic1850
Samuel Ingham SaybrookDemocratic1851
Charles B. Phelps Woodbury Democratic1852
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William W. Eaton Hartford Democratic1853
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Lafayette S. Foster NorwichWhig1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854)
Green Kendrick Waterbury Whig1854
Austin Baldwin Middletown American 1855
Green Kendrick WaterburyWhig1856
Eliphalet A. Bulkeley Hartford Union 1857
Alfred A. Burnham Windham Republican 1858
Oliver H. Perry Fairfield Republican1859, 1860
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Augustus Brandegee New LondonRepublican1861
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Henry C. Deming HartfordDemocratic1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861)
Josiah M. Carter Norwalk Republican1862
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Chauncey F. Cleveland HamptonRepublican1863
John S. Rice Farmington Union1864
Eleazer K. Foster New HavenRepublican1865
David Gallup Plainfield Union1866
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John T. Wait NorwichUnion1867
Charles Ives East Haven Republican1868
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Orville H. Platt MeridenRepublican1869
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Lafayette S. Foster NorwichRepublican1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870)
Alfred A. Burnham WindhamRepublican1870
Edwin H. Bugbee Killingly Republican1871
Amos S. Treat Woodbridge Republican1872
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William W. Eaton HartfordDemocratic1873
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Tilton E. Doolittle New HavenDemocratic1874
Charles Durand Derby Republican1875
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Thomas M. Waller New London Democratic1876
Lynde Harrison Guilford Republican1877
Charles H. Briscoe Enfield Republican1878
Dexter R. Wright New HavenRepublican1879
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Dwight Marcy Vernon Republican1880
William C. Case Granby Republican1881
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John Manning Hall Windham Republican1882
Charles H. Pine DerbyRepublican1883
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Henry B. Harrison New HavenRepublican1884
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William Edgar Simonds Canton Republican1885
John A. Tibbits New London Republican1886
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Heusted W. R. Hoyt Greenwich Republican1887
John H. Perry Fairfield Republican1889
Allen W. Paige Huntington Republican1891
Isaac W. Brooks Torrington Republican1893
Samuel Fessenden Stamford Republican1895
Joseph L. Barbour HartfordRepublican1897
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Frank B. Brandegee New LondonRepublican1899
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John H. Light NorwalkRepublican1901
Michael Kenealy StamfordRepublican1903
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Marcus H. Holcomb Southington Republican1905
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John Q. Tilson New HavenRepublican1907
Elmore S. Banks FairfieldRepublican1909
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Morris C. Webster Harwinton Republican1913
Frank E. Healy Windsor Locks Republican1915
James F. Walsh Greenwich Republican1917
Frederick W. Huxford StamfordRepublican1921
Leonard J. Nickerson Cornwall Republican1923
Elbert L. Darbie KillinglyRepublican1925
John H. Hill Shelton Republican1927
Samuel A. Eddy North Canaan Republican1929
Howard W. Alcorn Suffield Republican1931
William Hanna Bethel Republican1933, 1935
J. Mortimer Bell Salisbury Republican1937
Walter Howe LitchfieldRepublican1939
Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr. Suffield Republican1941
Harold E. Mitchell West Hartford Republican1943
E. Lea Marsh Jr. Old Lyme Republican1945
Frederick H. Holbrook Madison Republican1947
John R. Thim Hamden Republican1949
Mansfield D. Sprague New Canaan Republican1951
Arthur E. B. Tanner Woodbury Republican1953
W. Sheffield Cowles Farmington Republican1955
Nelson C. L. Brown, II Groton Republican1957
William J. O'Brien Jr. Portland Democratic1959
Anthony E. Wallace Simsbury Republican1961
J. Tyler Patterson Jr. Old LymeRepublican1963-1965
Robert J. Testo Bridgeport Democratic1967
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William R. Ratchford Danbury Democratic1969-1973
Francis J. Collins Brookfield Center Republican1973-1975
James J. Kennelly HartfordDemocratic1975-1979
Ernest N. Abate StamfordDemocratic1979-1983
Irving J. Stolberg New HavenDemocratic1983-1985
R. E. Van Norstrand Darien Republican1985-1987
Irving J. Stolberg New HavenDemocratic1987-1989
Richard J. Balducci Newington Democratic1989-1993
Thomas D. Ritter HartfordDemocratic1993-1999
Moira K. Lyons StamfordDemocratic1999-2005
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James A. Amann Milford Democratic2005-2009
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Christopher G. Donovan MeridenDemocratic2009-2013
J. Brendan Sharkey HamdenDemocratic2013-2017
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Joe Aresimowicz Berlin Democratic2017-2021
Matthew Ritter HartfordDemocratic2021-

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References

  1. Janicki, Mary M. (14 September 1995). "Two-Term Precedent for Speakers of the House of Representatives of Connecticut". The Office of the House Clerk - Connecticut General Assembly. Retrieved 14 October 2023.