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The speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States Business firm of Representatives. The role was established in 1789 past Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House, and is simultaneously the trunk's presiding officer, the de facto leader of the body's majority party, and the institution'southward administrative caput.^[1] Speakers likewise perform various administrative and procedural functions, all in improver to representing their ain congressional commune. Given these several roles and responsibilities, the speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated to members of the House from the majority party. Neither does the speaker regularly participate in floor debates. Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, afterwards the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate.^[2]

The House elects a new speaker by roll phone call vote when it outset convenes after a general election for its 2-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the total membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker.^[i] If no candidate receives a bulk vote, then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected.^[3] The Constitution does not crave the speaker to be an incumbent fellow member of the House, although every speaker thus far has been.^[4]

The electric current speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, was elected to a fourth (second sequent) term in office on January three, 2021, the first day of the 117th Congress. She is the only adult female to have served as speaker. Altogether, 54 individuals, from 23 of the fifty states, have served as speaker of the House. The number from each state are:

• Eight: Massachusetts;
• Four: Kentucky and Virginia;
• Three: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas;
• Two: Maine, New Jersey, New York, and S Carolina;
• One: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin.

One speaker, James Grand. Polk, afterwards served as President of the U.s.a., the only ane to serve in both offices, and two speakers, Schuyler Colfax and John Nance Garner, later became Vice president. The longest serving speaker was Sam Rayburn – 17 years, 53 days. Elected 10 times, he led the House three times: from September 1940 to January 1947; Jan 1949 to January 1953; and January 1955 to November 1961. Tip O'Neill had the longest uninterrupted tenure as speaker – 9 years, 350 days. Elected five times, he led the House from Jan 1977 to January 1987. Theodore One thousand. Pomeroy had the shortest tenure; elected speaker on March iii, 1869, he served one day.

List of speakers [edit]

The Business firm has elected a speaker 126 times since 1789:^[iii] at the first of each of the 117 congresses, plus on ten occasions when a vacancy arose during a Congress via death or resignation. Of the 54 people who accept served equally speaker of the House over the past 232 years, 32 served multiple terms, and vii of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Dirt, John Due west. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph Due west. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi. Birthday, there have been 63 occasions on which a new speaker took role. Every speaker of the House has been a member of a political party or faction; the number affiliated with each is:

 Democratic – 22;^[a]  Republican – 16;  Democratic-Republican – half-dozen;^[b]  Jacksonian – 3;^[a]  Whig – three;  Federalist – two;  Pro-Administration – two;^[c]  Adams Republican – i;^[b]  American – 1;  Anti-Assistants – 1.^[c]

As of February 2022, in that location are four living former speakers of the House: Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan. Nancy Pelosi was also among this group, prior to reassuming the office in Jan 2019.

List of speakers of the Usa House of Representatives

Congress	Term	Portrait	Proper name	Party		District[d]
1st	April 1, 1789 – March 4, 1791		Frederick Muhlenberg		Pro-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large
2nd	October 24, 1791 – March four, 1793		Jonathan Trumbull Jr.		Pro-Administration	Connecticut at-large
3rd	December 2, 1793[e] – March 4, 1795		Frederick Muhlenberg		Anti-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large
4th	December vii, 1795 – March iv, 1797		Jonathan Dayton		Federalist	New Bailiwick of jersey at-large
fifth	May 15, 1797 – March 4, 1799
6th	December 2, 1799[e] – March four, 1801		Theodore Sedgwick		Federalist	Massachusetts 1
7th	December 7, 1801 – March four, 1803		Nathaniel Macon		Democratic- Republican	North Carolina five
8th	October 17, 1803 – March 4, 1805					North Carolina 6
9th	Dec 2, 1805[e] – March four, 1807
10th	Oct 26, 1807 – March four, 1809		Joseph Bradley Varnum		Democratic- Republican	Massachusetts 4
11th	May 22, 1809[eastward] – March iv, 1811
12th	November 4, 1811 – March four, 1813		Henry Clay		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky 5
13th	May 24, 1813 – January 19, 1814[f]					Kentucky 2
13th [thousand]	January xix, 1814 – March four, 1815		Langdon Cheves		Autonomous- Republican	Due south Carolina 1
14th	December 4, 1815 – March four, 1817		Henry Clay		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky 2
15th	December 1, 1817 – March four, 1819
16th	December 6, 1819 – October 28, 1820[f]
16th [chiliad]	November 15, 1820[east] – March four, 1821		John West. Taylor		Democratic- Republican	New York 11
17th	December 4, 1821[due east] – March iv, 1823		Philip P. Barbour		Democratic- Republican	Virginia eleven
18th	Dec ane, 1823 – March 6, 1825[f]		Henry Clay		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky three
19th	December 5, 1825[e] – March 4, 1827		John W. Taylor		Adams Republican	New York 17
20th	December 3, 1827 – March four, 1829		Andrew Stevenson		Jacksonian	Virginia ix
21st	Dec 7, 1829 – March iv, 1831
22nd	Dec five, 1831 – March 4, 1833
23rd	Dec ii, 1833 – June 2, 1834[f]					Virginia 11
23rd [yard]	June 2, 1834[e] – March iv, 1835		John Bell		Jacksonian	Tennessee vii
24th	December 7, 1835 – March 4, 1837		James K. Polk		Jacksonian	Tennessee 9
25th	September 4, 1837 – March iv, 1839				Democratic
26th	December 16, 1839[e] – March four, 1841		Robert Thousand. T. Hunter		Whig	Virginia 9
27th	May 31, 1841 – March four, 1843		John White		Whig	Kentucky ix
28th	December iv, 1843 – March 4, 1845		John Winston Jones		Autonomous	Virginia vi
29th	December ane, 1845 – March 4, 1847		John Wesley Davis		Democratic	Indiana half dozen
30th	December half dozen, 1847[due east] – March iv, 1849		Robert Charles Winthrop		Whig	Massachusetts 1
31st	December 22, 1849[eastward] – March 4, 1851		Howell Cobb		Democratic	Georgia 6
32nd	December 1, 1851 – March iv, 1853		Linn Boyd		Democratic	Kentucky 1
33rd	Dec 5, 1853 – March 4, 1855
34th	February 2, 1856[e] – March 4, 1857		Nathaniel P. Banks		American	Massachusetts 7
35th	December seven, 1857 – March four, 1859		James Lawrence Orr		Democratic	South Carolina five
36th	February 1, 1860[e] – March iv, 1861		William Pennington		Republican	New Bailiwick of jersey 5
37th	July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863		Galusha A. Grow		Republican	Pennsylvania 14
38th	December 7, 1863 – March 4, 1865		Schuyler Colfax		Republican	Indiana 9
39th	Dec 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867
40th	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869[f]
40th [g]	March 3–4, 1869		Theodore M. Pomeroy		Republican	New York 24
41st	March four, 1869 – March 4, 1871		James Thou. Blaine		Republican	Maine iii
42nd	March four, 1871 – March 4, 1873
43rd	March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1875
44th	December 6, 1875 – Baronial 19, 1876[h]		Michael C. Kerr		Democratic	Indiana three
44th [g]	December 4, 1876 – March 4, 1877		Samuel J. Randall		Democratic	Pennsylvania iii
45th	October 15, 1877 – March 4, 1879
46th	March 18, 1879 – March 4, 1881
47th	December v, 1881 – March 4, 1883		J. Warren Keifer		Republican	Ohio 8
48th	December 3, 1883 – March 4, 1885		John Chiliad. Carlisle		Autonomous	Kentucky half dozen
49th	December 7, 1885 – March 4, 1887
50th	December v, 1887 – March 4, 1889
51st	December 2, 1889 – March iv, 1891		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine 1
52nd	December 8, 1891 – March 4, 1893		Charles Frederick Well-baked		Democratic	Georgia 3
53rd	August vii, 1893 – March iv, 1895
54th	December 2, 1895 – March 4, 1897		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine 1
55th	March 15, 1897 – March four, 1899
56th	December 4, 1899 – March 4, 1901		David B. Henderson		Republican	Iowa 3
57th	Dec two, 1901 – March iv, 1903
58th	Nov nine, 1903 – March 4, 1905		Joseph Gurney Cannon		Republican	Illinois 18
59th	Dec 4, 1905 – March 4, 1907
60th	Dec ii, 1907 – March 4, 1909
61st	March 15, 1909 – March four, 1911
62nd	April iv, 1911 – March 4, 1913		Gnaw Clark		Democratic	Missouri ix
63rd	Apr 7, 1913 – March 4, 1915
64th	December six, 1915 – March 4, 1917
65th	April 2, 1917 – March iv, 1919
66th	May 19, 1919 – March 4, 1921		Frederick H. Gillett		Republican	Massachusetts 2
67th	April 11, 1921 – March 4, 1923
68th	December v, 1923[e] – March four, 1925
69th	December vii, 1925 – March 4, 1927		Nicholas Longworth		Republican	Ohio 1
70th	December 5, 1927 – March 4, 1929
71st	April xv, 1929 – March 4, 1931
72nd	Dec 7, 1931 – March 4, 1933		John Nance Garner		Autonomous	Texas xv
73rd	March 9, 1933 – August 19, 1934[h]		Henry Thomas Rainey		Autonomous	Illinois 20
74th	Jan 3, 1935 – June 4, 1936[h]		Jo Byrns		Democratic	Tennessee 5
74th [g]	June iv, 1936 – January 3, 1937		William B. Bankhead		Democratic	Alabama 7
75th	January five, 1937 – January 3, 1939
76th	January three, 1939 – September xv, 1940[h]
76th [thou]	September 16, 1940 – January 3, 1941		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas 4
77th	January 3, 1941 – January 3, 1943
78th	January vi, 1943 – January three, 1945
79th	January 3, 1945 – January iii, 1947
80th	Jan 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949		Joseph Due west. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts xiv
81st	January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1951		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas iv
82nd	January iii, 1951 – January iii, 1953
83rd	January iii, 1953 – January 3, 1955		Joseph West. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts 14
84th	Jan 3, 1955 – January iii, 1957		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas 4
85th	January 3, 1957 – Jan iii, 1959
86th	January seven, 1959 – January 3, 1961
87th	January iii, 1961 – November 16, 1961[h]
87th [g]	January x, 1962 – Jan three, 1963		John W. McCormack		Democratic	Massachusetts 12
88th	January 9, 1963 – January 3, 1965					Massachusetts nine
89th	Jan four, 1965 – January 3, 1967
90th	January 10, 1967 – January 3, 1969
91st	Jan 3, 1969 – January 3, 1971
92nd	January 21, 1971 – January 3, 1973		Carl Albert		Autonomous	Oklahoma 3
93rd	Jan 3, 1973 – January 3, 1975
94th	Jan 14, 1975 – January 3, 1977
95th	January 4, 1977 – January three, 1979		Tip O'Neill		Democratic	Massachusetts 8
96th	January 15, 1979 – January 3, 1981
97th	January 5, 1981 – January iii, 1983
98th	January 3, 1983 – Jan 3, 1985
99th	January 3, 1985 – January three, 1987
100th	Jan 6, 1987 – Jan three, 1989		Jim Wright		Autonomous	Texas 12
101st	Jan 3, 1989 – June 6, 1989[f]
101st [yard]	June vi, 1989 – January 3, 1991		Tom Foley		Democratic	Washington five
102nd	January 3, 1991 – Jan 3, 1993
103rd	January 5, 1993 – January 3, 1995
104th	Jan iv, 1995 – Jan iii, 1997		Newt Gingrich		Republican	Georgia half dozen
105th	January 7, 1997 – January 3, 1999[f]
106th	Jan 6, 1999 – January iii, 2001		Dennis Hastert		Republican	Illinois xiv
107th	January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2003
108th	January seven, 2003 – Jan iii, 2005
109th	January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007
110th	January 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009		Nancy Pelosi		Democratic	California eight
111th	January half dozen, 2009 – January 3, 2011
112th	January v, 2011 – January 3, 2013		John Boehner		Republican	Ohio 8
113th	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015
114th	January 6, 2015 – October 29, 2015[f]
114th [g]	October 29, 2015 – January 3, 2017		Paul Ryan		Republican	Wisconsin 1
115th	January iii, 2017 – January three, 2019
116th	January 3, 2019 – January iii, 2021		Nancy Pelosi		Democratic	California 12
117th	Jan 3, 2021 – present
References:[five] [6]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} During James K. Polk's tenure as speaker the Jacksonian bloc confederate into the modern Autonomous Party.
2. ^ ^{a b} John Taylor served as speaker twice in the 1820s; initially he was as a member of the Democratic–Republican Political party, and later, when the party began to fracture, he sided with its pro–Adams faction.
3. ^ ^{a b} Frederick Muhlenberg served as speaker twice in the 1790s, earlier political factions coalesced into formal parties; initially he identified with the pro–administration faction, but later he aligned himself with the anti–assistants faction.
4. ^ The district listed is the district the speaker represented at the time they were in office, which may exist dissimilar in different Congresses due to redistricting.
5. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f one thousand h i j grand l thousand northward} Multi-election election.
6. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f g h} Resigned from function and from Congress.
7. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f chiliad h i j} Intra-term special election.
8. ^ ^{a b c d east} Died in office.

Timeline [edit]

Speakers by time in office [edit]

The length of time given beneath is based on the deviation between dates; if counted past number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater. Also, as many speakers were elected multiple times, and to terms that were, in several instances, non consecutive, the length of time given for each speaker measures their cumulative length of incumbency as speaker. Further, fourth dimension after banishment of one Congress just before the convening of the next Congress is not counted. For example, Nathaniel Macon was speaker in both the 8th and 9th Congresses, merely the eight-month gap between the 2 Congresses is non counted toward his service. The exact dates of service for each individual speaker is shown in the Term of service column of the above table.

Official seal of the Speaker of the Usa House of Representatives

Sam Rayburn, longest serving speaker of the House,
17 years, 53 days (cumulative)

Tip O'Neill, longest uninterrupted tenure of office,
9 years, 350 days

Rank	Name	Time in function	TE	Twelvemonth(s) in which elected
ane	Sam Rayburn	17 years, 53 days	10	1940; 1941; 1943; 1945; 1949; 1951; 1955; 1957; 1959; 1961
2	Henry Clay	x years, 196 days	6	1811; 1813; 1815; 1817; 1819; 1823
3	Tip O'Neill	9 years, 350 days	5	1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985
4	John W. McCormack	8 years, 344 days	v	1962; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1969
5	Dennis Hastert	vii years, 359 days	iv	1999; 2001; 2003; 2005
6	Nancy Pelosi	7 years, 48 days	iv	2007; 2009; 2019; 2021
7	Champ Clark	half-dozen years, 357 days	4	1911; 1913; 1915; 1917
8	Carl Albert	5 years, 337 days	three	1971; 1973; 1975
9	Joseph Gurney Cannon	v years, 285 days	4	1903; 1905; 1907; 1909
ten	Tom Foley	v years, 209 days	iii	1989; 1991; 1993
11	James Thousand. Blaine	five years, 93 days	3	1869; 1871; 1873
12	Frederick H. Gillett	four years, 341 days	3	1919; 1921; 1923
13	John Boehner	four years, 297 days	3	2011; 2013; 2015
14	Schuyler Colfax	four years, 176 days	3	1863; 1865; 1867
fifteen	Thomas Brackett Reed	4 years, 172 days	3	1889; 1895; 1897
sixteen	Nicholas Longworth	4 years, 133 days	3	1925; 1927; 1929
17	William B. Bankhead	iv years, 102 days	3	1936; 1937; 1939
18	Andrew Stevenson	4 years, 83 days	4	1827; 1829; 1831; 1833
19	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	4 years	ii	1947; 1953
20	Newt Gingrich	3 years, 361 days	2	1995; 1997
21	Nathaniel Macon	iii years, 317 days	3	1801; 1803; 1805
22	John G. Carlisle	3 years, 267 days	3	1883; 1885; 1887
23	Samuel J. Randall	three years, 215 days	three	1876; 1877; 1879
24	Paul Ryan	three years, 66 days	2	2015; 2017
25	Frederick Muhlenberg	3 years, 64 days	2	1789; 1793
26	Joseph Bradley Varnum	iii years, 49 days	2	1807; 1809
27	Jonathan Dayton	3 years, 14 days	ii	1795; 1797
28	Charles Frederick Well-baked	two years, 295 days	2	1891; 1893
29	James Grand. Polk	2 years, 268 days	two	1835; 1837
30 (necktie)	Linn Boyd	two years, 182 days	ii	1851; 1853
	David B. Henderson	2 years, 182 days	2	1899; 1901
32	Jim Wright	two years, 151 days	2	1987; 1989
33	John White	1 yr, 277 days	1	1841
34	Galusha A. Grow	1 year, 243 days	1	1861
35	John W. Taylor	i year, 198 days	2	1820; 1825
36	Henry Thomas Rainey	1 year, 163 days	1	1933
37	Joseph W. Byrns Sr.	1 twelvemonth, 153 days	1	1935
38	Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	1 year, 131 days	1	1791
39	John Wesley Davis	i twelvemonth, 93 days	one	1845
40	Theodore Sedgwick	one twelvemonth, 92 days	ane	1799
41 (tie)	Philip P. Barbour	1 year, 90 days	1	1821
	John Winston Jones	1 year, 90 days	one	1843
43	J. Warren Keifer	1 year, 89 days	1	1881
44	Robert Charles Winthrop	1 yr, 88 days	1	1847
45 (tie)	James Lawrence Orr	1 twelvemonth, 87 days	1	1857
	John Nance Garner	one twelvemonth, 87 days	ane	1931
47	Robert Chiliad. T. Hunter	ane yr, 78 days	1	1839
48	Howell Cobb	1 year, 72 days	1	1849
49	Langdon Cheves	1 year, 44 days	ane	1814
l	William Pennington	1 year, 31 days	1	1860
51	Nathaniel P. Banks	1 year, 30 days	i	1856
52	John Bong	275 days	1	1834
53	Michael C. Kerr	257 days	1	1875
54	Theodore Chiliad. Pomeroy	1 day	1	1869

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Forte, David F. "Essays on Article I: Speaker of the Firm". Heritage Guide to The Constitution. Heritage Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
2. ^ Relyea, Harold C. (August 5, 2005). "Continuity of Government: Electric current Federal Arrangements and the Future" (PDF). CRS Report for Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Inquiry Service, the Library of Congress. pp. two–iv. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Speaker Elections Decided by Multiple Ballots". history.house.gov. U.s.a. House of Representatives. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
4. ^ Heitshusen, Valerie; Beth, Richard S. (January 4, 2019). "Speakers of the Business firm: Elections, 1913–2019" (PDF). RL30857. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
5. ^ "List of Speakers of the Firm". Washington, D.C.: Function of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved Jan 24, 2022.
6. ^ Speakers of the Business firm of Representatives, 1789-2021. Amenia, New York: Grey House Publishing. 2021. ISBN978-1-64265-834-7.

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the U.S. federal government.

• "A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875". retentiveness.loc.gov. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
• "Congressional Record (Spring Edition)". govinfo.gov. Washington, D.C.: United states Government Publishing Role.
• "List of Speakers of the Business firm". Washington, D.C.: Office of the Historian, The states House of Representatives.

Further reading [edit]

• Follett, Mary Parker (1909) [Starting time edition, 1896]. The speaker of the House of Representatives. New York, New York: Longmans, Greene, and Company. Retrieved March 18, 2019 – via Internet Archive, digitized in 2007.
• House Document 108–204 – The Cannon Centenary Briefing: The Changing Nature of the Speakership

External links [edit]

• Official website

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