The following is a list of speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives, a position that was created with the state's constitution in 1889.North Dakota Blue Book, 1989 The term indicated is the year of the legislative session in which the individual served as speaker. It is customary for the Speaker to serve for only one session. The Speaker is chosen from the party that has the majority in the given session.
# Name Term Party District1 David B. Wellman 1889 Republican 2 William B. Allen 1891 Republican 3 George H. Walsh 1893 Republican 4 James C. Gill 1895 Republican 5 Erastus A. Williams 1897 Republican 6 Thomas Baker, Jr. 1899 Republican 7 Robert M. Pollock 1901 Republican 8 Thomas Baker, Jr. 1903 Republican 9 George Piercy 1905 Republican 10 Treadwell Twichell 1907 Republican 11 Usher L. Burdick 1909 Republican 12 James M. Hanley 1911 Republican 13 John H. Fraine 1913 Republican 14 Alfred P. Hanson 1915 Republican 15 Howard R. Wood 1917 Republican 16 L. L. Stair 1919 Republican 17 Luther L. Twichell 1921 Republican 18 Roy Johnson 1923 Republican 19 Ben C. Larkin 1925 Republican 20 John W. Carr 1927 Republican 21 Edwin Traynor 1929 Republican 22 Charles V. Freeman 1931 Republican 23 Minnie D. CraigMinnie Craig was the first female head of any legislative body in American history 1933 Republican-NPL 24 William Crockett 1935 Republican-NPL 25 Math Dahl 1937 Republican-NPL 26 Oscar W. Hagen 1939 Republican-NPL 27 Earl D. Symington 1941 Republican 28 Ralph Beede 1943 Republican 29 A. R. Bergesen 1945 Republican 30 Vernon M. Johnson 1947 Republican 31 Palmer Levin 1949 Republican 32 Leo Sticka 1951 Republican 33 Walter Bubel 1953 Republican 34 Kenneth A. Fitch 1955 Republican 35 Ben J. Wolf 1957 Republican 36 Hjalmar C. Nygaard 1959 Republican 37 R. Fay Brown 1961 Republican 38 Stanley Saugstad 1963 Republican 39 Arthur A. Link 1965 Democratic-NPL 40 Gordon S. Aamoth 1967 Republican 41 Ernest Norman Johnson 1969 Republican 42 Howard Bier 1971 Republican 43 Art Bunker 1973 Republican 44 Robert F. Reimers 1975 Republican 45 Oscar Solberg 1977 Democratic-NPL 46 Vernon E. Wagner 1979 Republican 47 James A. Peterson 1981 Republican 48 Patricia Kelly 1983 Democratic-NPL 49 LeRoy Hausauer 1985 Republican 50 Richard W. Kloubec 1987 Republican 51 William Kretschmar 1989 Republican 52 Ronald A. Anderson 1991 Republican 53 Rick Berg 1993 Republican 54 Clarence Martin 1995 Republican 55 Mike Timm 1997 Republican 56 Francis J. Wald 1999 Republican 57 LeRoy G. Bernstein 2001 Republican 58 Janet Wentz 2003 Republican 59 Matthew Klein 2005 Republican 60 Jeff Delzer 2007 Republican 61 David Monson 2009 Republican 62 David Drovdal 2011 Republican 63 Bill Devlin 2013 Republican 64 Wesley Belter 2015 Republican 65 Larry Bellew 2017 Republican 66 Lawrence Klemin 2019 Republican 67 Kim Koppelman 2021 Republican 68 Dennis Johnson 2023 Republican 69 Robin Weisz 2025 Republican
See also List of North Dakota Legislative Assemblies
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External links State of North Dakota official website