The speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Speakers, 1699-1818
A list of speakers of the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1699 to 1818 is available at
Speakers since 1818 PictureNameTownPolitical partyTerm of serviceDavid PlantStratfordToleration Republican1819, 1820 Elisha PhelpsSimsburyToleration Republican1821 Seth P. BeersLitchfieldToleration Republican1822, 1823 Ralph I. IngersollNew HavenToleration Republican1824 Samuel A. FootCheshireNational Republican1825, 1826 Ebenezer YoungKillinglyNational Republican1827, 1828 Elisha PhelpsSimsburyNational Republican1829 Henry W. EdwardsNew HavenJacksonian1830 Martin WellesWethersfieldNational Republican1831, 1832 Samuel InghamSaybrookJacksonian1833 Roger HuntingtonNorwichNational Republican1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834) William L. StorrsMiddletownNational Republican1834 Samuel InghamSaybrookDemocratic1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835) Chauncey F. ClevelandHamptonDemocratic1835, 1836 Stillman K. WightmanMiddletownDemocratic1837 William W. BoardmanNew HavenWhig1838, 1839 Charles J. McCurdyLymeWhig1840, 1841 Stillman K. WightmanMiddletownDemocratic1842 Noyes BillingsNew LondonDemocratic1843 Charles J. McCurdyLymeWhig1844 William W. BoardmanNewHavenWhig1845 Cyrus H. BeardsleeMonroeDemocratic1846 Lafayette S. FosterNorwichWhig1847, 1848 John C. LewisPlymouthFree Soil Democratic1849 Origen S. SeymourLitchfieldDemocratic1850 Samuel InghamSaybrookDemocratic1851 Charles B. PhelpsWoodburyDemocratic1852 William W. EatonHartfordDemocratic1853 Lafayette S. FosterNorwichWhig1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854) Green KendrickWaterburyWhig1854 Austin BaldwinMiddletownAmerican1855 Green KendrickWaterburyWhig1856Eliphalet A. BulkeleyHartfordRepublican1857 Alfred A. BurnhamWindhamRepublican1858 Oliver H. PerryFairfieldRepublican1859, 1860 Augustus BrandegeeNew LondonRepublican1861 Henry C. DemingHartfordDemocratic1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861) Josiah M. CarterNorwalkRepublican1862 Chauncey F. ClevelandHamptonRepublican1863John S. RiceFarmingtonUnion1864 Eleazer K. FosterNew HavenRepublican1865David GallupPlainfieldUnion1866John T. WaitNorwichUnion1867 Charles IvesEast HavenRepublican1868 Orville H. PlattMeridenRepublican1869 Lafayette S. FosterNorwichRepublican1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870) Alfred A. BurnhamWindhamRepublican1870 Edwin H. BugbeeKillinglyRepublican1871 Amos S. TreatWoodbridgeRepublican1872 William W. EatonHartfordDemocratic1873 Tilton E. DoolittleNew HavenDemocratic1874 Charles DurandDerbyRepublican1875 Thomas M. WallerNew LondonDemocratic1876 Lynde HarrisonGuilfordRepublican1877 Charles H. BriscoeEnfieldRepublican1878 Dexter R. WrightNew HavenRepublican1879 Dwight MarcyVernonRepublican1880 William C. CaseGranbyRepublican1881John Manning HallWindhamRepublican1882 Charles H. PineDerbyRepublican1883 Henry B. HarrisonNew HavenRepublican1884 William Edgar SimondsCantonRepublican1885 John A. TibbitsNew LondonRepublican1886 Heusted W. R. HoytGreenwichRepublican1887 John H. PerryFairfieldRepublican1889 Allen W. PaigeHuntingtonRepublican1891 Isaac W. BrooksTorringtonRepublican 1893 Samuel FessendenStamfordRepublican1895 Joseph L. BarbourHartfordRepublican1897 Frank B. BrandegeeNew LondonRepublican1899 John H. LightNorwalkRepublican 1901 Michael KenealyStamfordRepublican 1903 Marcus H. HolcombSouthingtonRepublican1905 John Q. TilsonNew HavenRepublican1907 Elmore S. BanksFairfieldRepublican1909 Frederick A. ScottPlymouthRepublican1911 Morris C. WebsterHarwintonRepublican1913 Frank E. HealyWindsor LocksRepublican1915 James F. WalshGreenwichRepublican1917 Frederick W. HuxfordStamfordRepublican1921 Leonard J. NickersonCornwallRepublican1923 Elbert L. DarbieKillinglyRepublican1925 John H. HillSheltonRepublican1927 Samuel A. EddyNorth CanaanRepublican1929 Howard W. AlcornSuffieldRepublican1931 William HannaBethelRepublican1933, 1935 J. Mortimer BellSalisburyRepublican1937 Walter HoweLitchfieldRepublican1939 Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr.SuffieldRepublican1941 Harold E. MitchellWest HartfordRepublican1943 E. Lea Marsh Jr.Old LymeRepublican1945 Frederick H. HolbrookMadisonRepublican1947 John R. ThimHamdenRepublican1949 Mansfield D. SpragueNew CanaanRepublican1951 Arthur E. B. TannerWoodburyRepublican1953 W. Sheffield CowlesFarmingtonRepublican1955 Nelson C. L. Brown, IIGrotonRepublican1957 William J. O'Brien Jr.PortlandDemocratic1959 Anthony E. WallaceSimsburyRepublican1961 J. Tyler Patterson Jr.Old LymeRepublican1963-1965 Robert J. TestoBridgeportDemocratic1967 William R. RatchfordDanburyDemocratic1969-1973 Francis J. CollinsBrookfield CenterRepublican1973-1975 James J. KennellyHartfordDemocratic1975-1979 Ernest N. AbateStamfordDemocratic1979-1983 Irving J. StolbergNew HavenDemocratic1983-1985 R. E. Van NorstrandDarienRepublican1985-1987 Irving J. StolbergNew HavenDemocratic1987-1989 Richard J. BalducciNewingtonDemocratic1989-1993 Thomas D. RitterHartfordDemocratic1993-1999 Moira K. LyonsStamfordDemocratic1999-2005 James A. AmannMilfordDemocratic2005-2009 Christopher G. DonovanMeridenDemocratic2009-2013 J. Brendan SharkeyHamdenDemocratic2013-2017 Joe AresimowiczBerlinDemocratic2017-2021 Matthew RitterHartfordDemocratic2021-
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