Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Appearance
The Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Speakers, 1699-1818
[edit]A list of speakers of the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1699 to 1818 is available at [1]
Speakers since 1818
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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 Republican | 1825, 1826 |
Ebenezer Young | Killingly | National Republican | 1827, 1828 | |
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Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | National Republican | 1829 |
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Henry W. Edwards | New Haven | Jacksonian | 1830 |
Martin Welles | Wethersfield | National Republican | 1831, 1832 | |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Jacksonian | 1833 | |
Roger Huntington | Norwich | National Republican | 1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834) | |
William L. Storrs | Middletown | National Republican | 1834 | |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835) | |
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Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Democratic | 1835, 1836 |
Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1837 | |
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William W. Boardman | New Haven | Whig | 1838, 1839 |
Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1840, 1841 | |
Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1842 | |
Noyes Billings | New London | Democratic | 1843 | |
Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1844 | |
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William W. Boardman | NewHaven | Whig | 1845 |
Cyrus H. Beardslee | Monroe | Democratic | 1846 | |
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Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1847, 1848 |
John C. Lewis | Plymouth | Free Soil Democratic | 1849 | |
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Origen S. Seymour | Litchfield | Democratic | 1850 |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1851 | |
Charles B. Phelps | Woodbury | Democratic | 1852 | |
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William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1853 |
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Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854) |
Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1854 | |
Austin Baldwin | Middletown | American | 1855 | |
Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1856 | |
Eliphalet A. Bulkeley | Hartford | Union | 1857 | |
Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1858 | |
Oliver H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1859, 1860 | |
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Augustus Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1861 |
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Henry C. Deming | Hartford | Democratic | 1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861) |
Josiah M. Carter | Norwalk | Republican | 1862 | |
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Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Republican | 1863 |
John S. Rice | Farmington | Union | 1864 | |
Eleazer K. Foster | New Haven | Republican | 1865 | |
David Gallup | Plainfield | Union | 1866 | |
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John T. Wait | Norwich | Union | 1867 |
Charles Ives | East Haven | Republican | 1868 | |
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Orville H. Platt | Meriden | Republican | 1869 |
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Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Republican | 1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870) |
Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1870 | |
Edwin H. Bugbee | Killingly | Republican | 1871 | |
Amos S. Treat | Woodbridge | Republican | 1872 | |
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William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1873 |
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Tilton E. Doolittle | New Haven | Democratic | 1874 |
Charles Durand | Derby | Republican | 1875 | |
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Thomas M. Waller | New London | Democratic | 1876 |
Lynde Harrison | Guilford | Republican | 1877 | |
Charles H. Briscoe | Enfield | Republican | 1878 | |
Dexter R. Wright | New Haven | Republican | 1879 | |
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Dwight Marcy | Vernon | Republican | 1880 |
William C. Case | Granby | Republican | 1881 | |
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John Manning Hall | Windham | Republican | 1882 |
Charles H. Pine | Derby | Republican | 1883 | |
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Henry B. Harrison | New Haven | Republican | 1884 |
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William Edgar Simonds | Canton | Republican | 1885 |
John A. Tibbits | New London | Republican | 1886 | |
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Heusted W. R. Hoyt | Greenwich | Republican | 1887 |
John H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1889 | |
Allen W. Paige | Huntington | Republican | 1891 | |
Isaac W. Brooks | Torrington | Republican | 1893 | |
Samuel Fessenden | Stamford | Republican | 1895 | |
Joseph L. Barbour | Hartford | Republican | 1897 | |
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Frank B. Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1899 |
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John H. Light | Norwalk | Republican | 1901 |
Michael Kenealy | Stamford | Republican | 1903 | |
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Marcus H. Holcomb | Southington | Republican | 1905 |
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John Q. Tilson | New Haven | Republican | 1907 |
Elmore S. Banks | Fairfield | Republican | 1909 | |
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Frederick A. Scott | Plymouth | Republican | 1911 |
Morris C. Webster | Harwinton | Republican | 1913 | |
Frank E. Healy | Windsor Locks | Republican | 1915 | |
James F. Walsh | Greenwich | Republican | 1917 | |
Frederick W. Huxford | Stamford | Republican | 1921 | |
Leonard J. Nickerson | Cornwall | Republican | 1923 | |
Elbert L. Darbie | Killingly | Republican | 1925 | |
John H. Hill | Shelton | Republican | 1927 | |
Samuel A. Eddy | North Canaan | Republican | 1929 | |
Howard W. Alcorn | Suffield | Republican | 1931 | |
William Hanna | Bethel | Republican | 1933, 1935 | |
J. Mortimer Bell | Salisbury | Republican | 1937 | |
Walter Howe | Litchfield | Republican | 1939 | |
Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr. | Suffield | Republican | 1941 | |
Harold E. Mitchell | West Hartford | Republican | 1943 | |
E. Lea Marsh, Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1945 | |
Frederick H. Holbrook | Madison | Republican | 1947 | |
John R. Thim | Hamden | Republican | 1949 | |
Mansfield D. Sprague | New Canaan | Republican | 1951 | |
Arthur E. B. Tanner | Woodbury | Republican | 1953 | |
W. Sheffield Cowles | Farmington | Republican | 1955 | |
Nelson C. L. Brown, II | Groton | Republican | 1957 | |
William J. O'Brien, Jr. | Portland | Democratic | 1959 | |
Anthony E. Wallace | Simsbury | Republican | 1961 | |
J. Tyler Patterson, Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1963-1965 | |
Robert J. Testo | Bridgeport | Democratic | 1967 | |
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William R. Ratchford | Danbury | Democratic | 1969-1973 |
Francis J. Collins | Brookfield Center | Republican | 1973-1975 | |
James J. Kennelly | Hartford | Democratic | 1975-1979 | |
Ernest N. Abate | Stamford | Democratic | 1979-1983 | |
Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1983-1985 | |
R. E. Van Norstrand | Darien | Republican | 1985-1987 | |
Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1987-1989 | |
Richard J. Balducci | Newington | Democratic | 1989-1993 | |
Thomas D. Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 1993-1999 | |
Moira K. Lyons | Stamford | Democratic | 1999-2005 | |
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James A. Amann | Milford | Democratic | 2005-2009 |
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Christopher G. Donovan | Meriden | Democratic | 2009-2013 |
J. Brendan Sharkey | Hamden | Democratic | 2013-2017 | |
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Joe Aresimowicz | Berlin | Democratic | 2017-2021 |
Matthew Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 2021- |
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- "SOTS: Speakers of the House of Representatives". www.ct.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-13.