State of Texas
Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas.
Name | Party | Term in Office | Legislative Sessions |
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William Crump | Democratic | 16 February 1846–3 March 1846 | 1st |
John Brown | Democratic | 3 March 1846–9 March 1846 | |
Edward Thomas Branch | Democratic | 9 March 1846–16 March 1846 | |
William Crump | Democratic | 16 March 1846–1 May 1846 | |
William H. Bourland | Democratic | 1 May 1846–before 13 May 1846 | |
Stephen W. Perkins | Democratic | before 13 May 1846–13 December 1847 | |
J. W. Henderson | Democratic | 13 December 1847–5 November 1849 | 2nd |
Charles G. Keenan | Democratic | 5 November 1849–3 November 1851 | 3rd |
David Catchings Dickson | Democratic | 3 November 1851–7 November 1853 | 4th |
Hardin Richard Runnels | Democratic | 7 November 1853–5 November 1855 | 5th |
Hamilton Prioleau Bee | Democratic | 5 November 1855–2 November 1857 | 6th |
William S. Taylor | Democratic | 2 November 1857–18 January 1858 | 7th |
Matthew Fielding Locke | Democratic | 18 January 1858–7 November 1859 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 7 November 1859–4 November 1861 | 8th |
Constantine W. Buckley | Democratic | 4 November 1861–7 December 1861 | 9th |
Nicholas Henry Darnell | Democratic | 7 December 1861–1862 | |
Vacant | 1862–2 February 1863 | ||
Constantine W. Buckley | Democratic | 2 February 1863–2 November 1863 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 2 November 1863–6 August 1866 | 10th |
Nathaniel Macon Burford | Unionist | 6 August 1866–25 April 1869 | 11th |
Vacant | 25 April 1869–8 February 1870 | ||
Ira Hobart Evans | Republican | 8 February 1870–1871 | 12th |
William Henry Sinclair | Republican | 1871–14 January 1873 | |
M. D. K. Taylor | Democratic | 14 January 1873–13 January 1874 | 13th |
Guy Morrison Bryan | Democratic | 13 January 1874–1876 | 14th |
Thomas Reuben Bonner | Democratic | 1876–1879 | 15th |
John Hughes Cochran | Democratic | 1879–1881 | 16th |
George Robertson Reeves | Democratic | 1881–1883 | 17th |
Charles Reese Gibson | Democratic | 1883–1885 | 18th |
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster | Democratic | 1885–1887 | 19th |
George Cassety Pendleton | Democratic | 1887–1889 | 20th |
Frank P. Alexander | Democratic | 1889–1891 | 21st |
Robert Teague Milner | Democratic | 1891–1893 | 22nd |
John Hughes Cochran | Democratic | 1893–1895 | 23rd |
Thomas Slater Smith | Democratic | 1895–1897 | 24th |
L. Travis Dashiell | Democratic | 1897–1899 | 25th |
James S. Sherrill | Democratic | 1899–1901 | 26th |
Robert E. Prince | Democratic | 1901–1903 | 27th |
Pat Morris Neff | Democratic | 1903–1905 | 28th |
Francis William Seabury | Democratic | 1905–1907 | 29th |
Thomas Bell Love | Democratic | 1907–1909 | 30th |
Austin Milton Kennedy | Democratic | 1909 | 31st |
John Wesley Marshall | Democratic | 1909–1911 | |
Sam Rayburn | Democratic | 1911–1913 | 32nd |
Chester H. Terrell | Democratic | 1913–1915 | 33rd |
John William Woods | Democratic | 1915–1917 | 34th |
Franklin Oliver Fuller | Democratic | 1917–1919 | 35th |
Robert Ewing Thomason | Democratic | 1919–1921 | 36th |
Charles Graham Thomas | Democratic | 1921–1923 | 37th |
Richard Ernest Seagler | Democratic | 1923–1925 | 38th |
Lee Satterwhite | Democratic | 1925–1927 | 39th |
Robert Lee Bobbitt | Democratic | 1927–1929 | 40th |
Wingate S. Barron | Democratic | 1929–1931 | 41st |
Fred Hawthorne Minor | Democratic | 1931–1933 | 42nd |
Coke R. Stevenson | Democratic | 1933–1937 | 43rd |
44th | |||
Robert Wilburn Calvert | Democratic | 1937–1939 | 45th |
Robert Emmett Morse | Democratic | 1939–1941 | 46th |
Homer Lakerby Leonard | Democratic | 1941–1943 | 47th |
Price Daniel | Democratic | 1943–1945 | 48th |
Claud H. Gilmer | Democratic | 1945–1947 | 49th |
William O. Reed | Democratic | 1947–1949 | 50th |
Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr. | Democratic | 1949–1951 | 51st |
Reuben E. Senterfitt | Democratic | 1951–1955 | 52nd |
53rd | |||
Jim T. Lindsey | Democratic | 1955–1957 | 54th |
Waggoner Carr | Democratic | 1957–1961 | 55th |
56th | |||
Jimmy Turman | Democratic | 1961 | 57th |
Byron M. Tunnell | Democratic | 1963 | 58th |
Ben F. Barnes | Democratic | 1965–1969 | 59th |
60th | |||
Gus Franklin Mutscher | Democratic | 1969–1972 | 61st |
62nd | |||
Rayford Price | Democratic | 1972–1973 | |
Price Daniel, Jr. | Democratic | 1973–1975 | 63rd |
Bill W. Clayton | Democratic | 1975–1983 | 64th |
65th | |||
66th | |||
67th | |||
Gib Lewis | Democratic | 1983–1993 | 68th |
69th | |||
70th | |||
71st | |||
72nd | |||
Pete Laney | Democratic | 1993–2003 | 73rd |
74th | |||
75th | |||
76th | |||
77th | |||
Tom Craddick | Republican | 2003–2009 | 78th |
79th | |||
80th | |||
Joe Straus | Republican | 2009–present | 81st |
82nd |
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