List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives

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 Territorial House No.NameImagePartyHometownDivisionTermLegislatures1Earnest B. Collins RepublicanFox4th1913–19171st, 2nd2Luther C. Hess DemocraticFairbanks4th1917–19193rd3E. J. White DemocraticJuneau1st1919–19214th4Andrew Nerland RepublicanFairbanks4th1921–19235th5Cash Cole RepublicanJuneau1st1923–19256th6C. H. Wilcox DemocraticValdez3rd1925–19277th7Sumner S. Smith RepublicanAnchorage3rd1927–19298th8R. C. Rothenburg Independent RepublicanFairbanks4th1929–19319th9Grover C. Winn RepublicanJuneau1st1931–193310th10Joe McDonald DemocraticEster Creek4th1933–193511th11Joseph S. Hofman DemocraticSeward3rd1935–193712th12Joe Green DemocraticHyder1st1937–193913th13Howard Lyng DemocraticNome2nd1939–194114th14Herbert H. McCutcheon DemocraticAnchorage3rd1941–194315th15James V. Davis DemocraticJuneau1st1943–194516th16Jesse D. Lander DemocraticFairbanks4th1945–194717th17Oscar S. Gill RepublicanAnchorage3rd1947–194918th18Stanley McCutcheon DemocraticAnchorage3rd1949–195119th19William A. Egan DemocraticValdez3rd1951–195320th20George Miscovich RepublicanFairbanks4th1953–195521st21Wendell P. Kay DemocraticAnchorage3rd1955–195722nd22Richard J. Greuel DemocraticFairbanks4th1957–195923rd

State House No.NameImagePartyHometownDistrictTermLegislatures1Warren A. Taylor DemocraticFairbanks191959–19631st, 2nd2Bruce Kendall RepublicanAnchorage81963–19653rd3Mike Gravel DemocraticAnchorage81965–19674th4William K. Boardman RepublicanKetchikan11967–19695th5Jalmar M. Kerttula DemocraticPalmer71969–19716th6Gene Guess DemocraticAnchorage81971–19737th7Tom Fink Republican(coalition)Anchorage81973–19758th8Mike Bradner DemocraticFairbanks201975–19779th9Hugh Malone DemocraticKenai131977–197910th10Terry Gardiner DemocraticKetchikan11979–198111th11Jim Duncan DemocraticJuneau41981–198112th12Joseph L. Hayes RepublicanAnchorage12, 91981–198512th, 13th13Ben F. Grussendorf DemocraticSitka31985–198914th, 15th14Samuel R. Cotten DemocraticEagle River151989–199116th15Ben F. Grussendorf DemocraticSitka31991–199317th16Ramona L. Barnes RepublicanAnchorage221993–199518th17Gail Phillips RepublicanHomer71995–199919th, 20th18Brian Porter RepublicanAnchorage201999–200321st, 22nd19Pete Kott RepublicanEagle River172003–200523rd20John Harris RepublicanValdez122005–200924th, 25th21Mike Chenault RepublicanNikiski342009–201726th, 27th, 28th, 29th22Bryce Edgmon DemocraticDillingham372017–202130th, 31st Independent23Louise Stutes RepublicanKodiak322021–202332nd23Cathy Tilton RepublicanWasilla262023–202533rd24Bryce Edgmon IndependentDillingham372025–present34th

See also List of Alaska state legislatures

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