List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
Appearance
Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives | |
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since January 18, 2023 | |
Formation | 1913 |
First holder | Earnest B. Collins |
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This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).
Speakers
[edit]Territorial House
[edit]No. | Name | Image | Party | Hometown | Division | Term | Legislatures |
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1 | Earnest B. Collins | Republican | Fox | 4th | 1913 – 1917 | First, Second | |
2 | Luther C. Hess | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1917 – 1919 | Third | |
3 | E. J. White | Democratic | Juneau | 1st | 1919 – 1921 | Fourth | |
4 | Andrew Nerland | Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1921 – 1923 | Fifth | |
5 | Cash Cole | Republican | Juneau | 1st | 1923 – 1925 | Sixth | |
6 | C. H. Wilcox | Democratic | Valdez | 3rd | 1925 – 1927 | Seventh | |
7 | Sumner S. Smith | Republican | Anchorage | 3rd | 1927 – 1929 | Eighth | |
8 | R. C. Rothenburg | Independent Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1929 – 1931 | Ninth | |
9 | Grover C. Winn | Republican | Juneau | 1st | 1931 – 1933 | Tenth | |
10 | Joe McDonald | Democratic | Ester Creek | 4th | 1933 – 1935 | Eleventh | |
11 | Joseph S. Hofman | Democratic | Seward | 3rd | 1935 – 1937 | Twelfth | |
12 | Joe Green | Democratic | Hyder | 1st | 1937 – 1939 | Thirteenth | |
13 | Howard Lyng | Democratic | Nome | 2nd | 1939 – 1941 | Fourteenth | |
14 | Herbert H. McCutcheon | Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1941 – 1943 | Fifteenth | |
15 | James V. Davis | Democratic | Juneau | 1st | 1943 – 1945 | Sixteenth | |
16 | Jesse D. Lander | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1945 – 1947 | Seventeenth | |
17 | Oscar S. Gill | Republican | Anchorage | 3rd | 1947 – 1949 | Eighteenth | |
18 | Stanley McCutcheon | Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1949 – 1951 | Nineteenth | |
19 | William A. Egan | ![]() |
Democratic | Valdez | 3rd | 1951 – 1953 | Twentieth |
20 | George Miscovich | Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1953 – 1955 | Twenty-First | |
21 | Wendell P. Kay | ![]() |
Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1955 – 1957 | Twenty-Second |
22 | Richard J. Greuel | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1957 – 1959 | Twenty-Third |
State House
[edit]No. | Name | Image | Party | Hometown | District | Term | Legislatures |
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1 | Warren A. Taylor | Democratic | Fairbanks | 19 | 1959 – 1963 | First, Second | |
2 | Bruce Kendall | Republican | Anchorage | 8 | 1963 – 1965 | Third | |
3 | Mike Gravel | ![]() |
Democratic | Anchorage | 8 | 1965 – 1967 | Fourth |
4 | William K. Boardman | Republican | Ketchikan | 1 | 1967 – 1969 | Fifth | |
5 | Jalmar M. Kerttula | ![]() |
Democratic | Palmer | 7 | 1969 – 1971 | Sixth |
6 | Gene Guess | ![]() |
Democratic | Anchorage | 8 | 1971 – 1973 | Seventh |
7 | Tom Fink | ![]() |
Republican | Anchorage | 8 | 1973 – 1975 | Eighth |
8 | Mike Bradner | ![]() |
Democratic | Fairbanks | 20 | 1975 – 1977 | Ninth |
9 | Hugh Malone | ![]() |
Democratic | Kenai | 13 | 1977 – 1979 | Tenth |
10 | Terry Gardiner | ![]() |
Democratic | Ketchikan | 1 | 1979 – 1981 | Eleventh |
11 | Jim Duncan | ![]() |
Democratic | Juneau | 4 | 1981 – 1981 | Twelfth |
12 | Joseph L. Hayes | ![]() |
Republican (Tri-Partisan Coalition) |
Anchorage | 12, 9 | 1981 – 1985 | Twelfth, Thirteenth |
13 | Ben F. Grussendorf | Democratic | Sitka | 3 | 1985 – 1989 | Fourteenth, Fifteenth | |
14 | Samuel R. Cotten | ![]() |
Democratic | Eagle River | 15 | 1989 – 1991 | Sixteenth |
15 | Ben F. Grussendorf | Democratic | Sitka | 3 | 1991 – 1993 | Seventeenth | |
16 | Ramona L. Barnes | ![]() |
Republican (Republican majority coalition) |
Anchorage | 22 | 1993 – 1995 | Eighteenth |
17 | Gail Phillips | Republican | Homer | 7 | 1995 – 1999 | Nineteenth, Twentieth | |
18 | Brian Porter | Republican | Anchorage | 20 | 1999 – 2003 | Twenty-First, Twenty-Second | |
19 | Pete Kott | Republican | Eagle River | 17 | 2003 – 2005 | Twenty-Third | |
20 | John Harris | Republican | Valdez | 12 | 2005 – 2009 | Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth | |
21 | Mike Chenault | ![]() |
Republican | Nikiski | 34 | 2009 – 2017 | Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth |
22 | Bryce Edgmon | ![]() |
Democratic | Dillingham | 37 | 2017 – 2021 | Thirtieth, Thirty-first |
Independent (Democratic majority coalition) | |||||||
23 | Louise Stutes | Republican (Democratic majority coalition) |
Kodiak | 32 | 2021 – 2023 | Thirty-second | |
23 | Cathy Tilton | Republican (Republican majority coalition) |
Wasilla | 26 | 2023 – present | Thirty-third |
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2013 (PDF) (Centennial ed.). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2013. — contains photos of most speakers