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The speaker of the Usa Firm of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The function was established in 1789 by Article I, Section two of the U.S. Constitution. The speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House, and is simultaneously the body's presiding officer, the de facto leader of the body'south majority political party, and the establishment's authoritative head.^[1] Speakers also perform diverse administrative and procedural functions, all in addition to representing their ain congressional district. 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 flooring debates. Additionally, the speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, after the vice president and alee of the president pro tempore of the Senate.^[2]

The House elects a new speaker by roll call vote when information technology offset convenes afterward a general election for its two-year term, or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. A majority of votes bandage (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the Business firm) is necessary to elect a speaker.^[one] If no candidate receives a majority vote, then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected.^[3] The Constitution does non require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the Firm, although every speaker thus far has been.^[iv]

The current speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi of California, was elected to a fourth (second consecutive) term in office on Jan three, 2021, the outset day of the 117th Congress. She is the only woman to have served equally speaker. Birthday, 54 individuals, from 23 of the fifty states, accept 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;
• 2: Maine, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina;
• Ane: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Iowa, Missouri, Due north Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, and Wisconsin.

One speaker, James K. Polk, subsequently served as President of the Usa, the only one to serve in both offices, and two speakers, Schuyler Colfax and John Nance Garner, afterwards became Vice president. The longest serving speaker was Sam Rayburn – 17 years, 53 days. Elected ten times, he led the House 3 times: from September 1940 to January 1947; Jan 1949 to January 1953; and Jan 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 January 1977 to January 1987. Theodore M. Pomeroy had the shortest tenure; elected speaker on March 3, 1869, he served one day.

Listing of speakers [edit]

The House has elected a speaker 126 times since 1789:^[3] at the showtime of each of the 117 congresses, plus on 10 occasions when a vacancy arose during a Congress via death or resignation. Of the 54 people who have served as speaker of the Business firm over the past 232 years, 32 served multiple terms, and 7 of them served nonconsecutive terms: Frederick Muhlenberg, Henry Clay, John Westward. Taylor, Thomas Brackett Reed, Joseph W. Martin Jr., Sam Rayburn, and Nancy Pelosi. Altogether, there have been 63 occasions on which a new speaker took office. 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 – sixteen;  Democratic-Republican – 6;^[b]  Jacksonian – 3;^[a]  Whig – 3;  Federalist – 2;  Pro-Administration – two;^[c]  Adams Republican – i;^[b]  American – 1;  Anti-Administration – 1.^[c]

As of February 2022, at that place are four living former speakers of the Business firm: Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan. Nancy Pelosi was also amidst this group, prior to reassuming the office in January 2019.

List of speakers of the U.s. Business firm of Representatives

Congress	Term	Portrait	Name	Party		Commune[d]
1st	April ane, 1789 – March 4, 1791		Frederick Muhlenberg		Pro-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large
2nd	October 24, 1791 – March 4, 1793		Jonathan Trumbull Jr.		Pro-Assistants	Connecticut at-large
third	December 2, 1793[e] – March 4, 1795		Frederick Muhlenberg		Anti-Administration	Pennsylvania at-large
4th	December 7, 1795 – March 4, 1797		Jonathan Dayton		Federalist	New Bailiwick of jersey at-large
5th	May 15, 1797 – March 4, 1799
6th	December 2, 1799[e] – March iv, 1801		Theodore Sedgwick		Federalist	Massachusetts one
7th	December 7, 1801 – March 4, 1803		Nathaniel Macon		Autonomous- Republican	Northward Carolina 5
8th	October 17, 1803 – March 4, 1805					North Carolina vi
ninth	December ii, 1805[e] – March 4, 1807
10th	Oct 26, 1807 – March 4, 1809		Joseph Bradley Varnum		Democratic- Republican	Massachusetts four
11th	May 22, 1809[e] – March 4, 1811
12th	November four, 1811 – March 4, 1813		Henry Dirt		Autonomous- Republican	Kentucky 5
13th	May 24, 1813 – January 19, 1814[f]					Kentucky 2
13th [chiliad]	January 19, 1814 – March iv, 1815		Langdon Cheves		Democratic- Republican	S Carolina ane
14th	December four, 1815 – March four, 1817		Henry Dirt		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky ii
15th	Dec 1, 1817 – March 4, 1819
16th	December 6, 1819 – October 28, 1820[f]
16th [g]	Nov xv, 1820[e] – March four, 1821		John W. Taylor		Autonomous- Republican	New York 11
17th	December 4, 1821[e] – March 4, 1823		Philip P. Barbour		Democratic- Republican	Virginia 11
18th	December 1, 1823 – March half dozen, 1825[f]		Henry Clay		Democratic- Republican	Kentucky iii
19th	December five, 1825[eastward] – March 4, 1827		John W. Taylor		Adams Republican	New York 17
20th	December three, 1827 – March 4, 1829		Andrew Stevenson		Jacksonian	Virginia nine
21st	Dec seven, 1829 – March 4, 1831
22nd	December 5, 1831 – March 4, 1833
23rd	December ii, 1833 – June ii, 1834[f]					Virginia xi
23rd [thousand]	June ii, 1834[e] – March four, 1835		John Bong		Jacksonian	Tennessee seven
24th	December vii, 1835 – March iv, 1837		James Chiliad. Polk		Jacksonian	Tennessee 9
25th	September iv, 1837 – March 4, 1839				Democratic
26th	December xvi, 1839[e] – March 4, 1841		Robert M. T. Hunter		Whig	Virginia 9
27th	May 31, 1841 – March 4, 1843		John White		Whig	Kentucky 9
28th	December 4, 1843 – March four, 1845		John Winston Jones		Democratic	Virginia vi
29th	Dec 1, 1845 – March 4, 1847		John Wesley Davis		Democratic	Indiana 6
30th	December six, 1847[east] – March iv, 1849		Robert Charles Winthrop		Whig	Massachusetts 1
31st	December 22, 1849[e] – March iv, 1851		Howell Cobb		Democratic	Georgia six
32nd	Dec 1, 1851 – March 4, 1853		Linn Boyd		Democratic	Kentucky 1
33rd	December five, 1853 – March 4, 1855
34th	February 2, 1856[e] – March 4, 1857		Nathaniel P. Banks		American	Massachusetts vii
35th	December vii, 1857 – March iv, 1859		James Lawrence Orr		Democratic	South Carolina five
36th	February 1, 1860[e] – March 4, 1861		William Pennington		Republican	New Jersey 5
37th	July 4, 1861 – March 4, 1863		Galusha A. Abound		Republican	Pennsylvania 14
38th	December vii, 1863 – March 4, 1865		Schuyler Colfax		Republican	Indiana nine
39th	December 4, 1865 – March 4, 1867
40th	March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1869[f]
40th [yard]	March 3–4, 1869		Theodore Chiliad. Pomeroy		Republican	New York 24
41st	March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1871		James Yard. Blaine		Republican	Maine 3
42nd	March four, 1871 – March 4, 1873
43rd	March four, 1873 – March iv, 1875
44th	Dec half-dozen, 1875 – August 19, 1876[h]		Michael C. Kerr		Democratic	Indiana three
44th [thousand]	December 4, 1876 – March 4, 1877		Samuel J. Randall		Autonomous	Pennsylvania 3
45th	October 15, 1877 – March 4, 1879
46th	March 18, 1879 – March 4, 1881
47th	December five, 1881 – March 4, 1883		J. Warren Keifer		Republican	Ohio 8
48th	December 3, 1883 – March 4, 1885		John G. Carlisle		Autonomous	Kentucky vi
49th	December 7, 1885 – March 4, 1887
50th	Dec five, 1887 – March 4, 1889
51st	December two, 1889 – March 4, 1891		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine one
52nd	Dec 8, 1891 – March 4, 1893		Charles Frederick Crisp		Democratic	Georgia 3
53rd	August seven, 1893 – March 4, 1895
54th	December 2, 1895 – March 4, 1897		Thomas Brackett Reed		Republican	Maine 1
55th	March 15, 1897 – March iv, 1899
56th	Dec four, 1899 – March 4, 1901		David B. Henderson		Republican	Iowa 3
57th	December ii, 1901 – March 4, 1903
58th	November nine, 1903 – March 4, 1905		Joseph Gurney Cannon		Republican	Illinois xviii
59th	December iv, 1905 – March 4, 1907
60th	December 2, 1907 – March four, 1909
61st	March fifteen, 1909 – March 4, 1911
62nd	April 4, 1911 – March 4, 1913		Gnaw Clark		Democratic	Missouri nine
63rd	April vii, 1913 – March 4, 1915
64th	Dec six, 1915 – March 4, 1917
65th	April 2, 1917 – March four, 1919
66th	May 19, 1919 – March iv, 1921		Frederick H. Gillett		Republican	Massachusetts two
67th	April 11, 1921 – March 4, 1923
68th	Dec 5, 1923[e] – March 4, 1925
69th	December 7, 1925 – March 4, 1927		Nicholas Longworth		Republican	Ohio one
70th	December v, 1927 – March four, 1929
71st	April fifteen, 1929 – March 4, 1931
72nd	December 7, 1931 – March four, 1933		John Nance Garner		Democratic	Texas 15
73rd	March ix, 1933 – August nineteen, 1934[h]		Henry Thomas Rainey		Autonomous	Illinois 20
74th	January 3, 1935 – June 4, 1936[h]		Jo Byrns		Autonomous	Tennessee v
74th [g]	June iv, 1936 – Jan three, 1937		William B. Bankhead		Democratic	Alabama vii
75th	January five, 1937 – Jan iii, 1939
76th	January iii, 1939 – September 15, 1940[h]
76th [1000]	September 16, 1940 – January iii, 1941		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas iv
77th	January 3, 1941 – January iii, 1943
78th	January half-dozen, 1943 – Jan 3, 1945
79th	Jan 3, 1945 – Jan 3, 1947
80th	January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1949		Joseph W. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts 14
81st	January 3, 1949 – January iii, 1951		Sam Rayburn		Democratic	Texas 4
82nd	January 3, 1951 – Jan iii, 1953
83rd	January iii, 1953 – Jan 3, 1955		Joseph W. Martin Jr.		Republican	Massachusetts 14
84th	Jan 3, 1955 – Jan 3, 1957		Sam Rayburn		Autonomous	Texas 4
85th	January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959
86th	January vii, 1959 – January iii, 1961
87th	Jan iii, 1961 – November 16, 1961[h]
87th [g]	Jan 10, 1962 – January iii, 1963		John Westward. McCormack		Democratic	Massachusetts 12
88th	Jan 9, 1963 – January 3, 1965					Massachusetts 9
89th	January iv, 1965 – January iii, 1967
90th	January x, 1967 – January 3, 1969
91st	January 3, 1969 – Jan 3, 1971
92nd	Jan 21, 1971 – January 3, 1973		Carl Albert		Democratic	Oklahoma 3
93rd	January 3, 1973 – January three, 1975
94th	January 14, 1975 – Jan 3, 1977
95th	January 4, 1977 – January iii, 1979		Tip O'Neill		Democratic	Massachusetts 8
96th	Jan 15, 1979 – Jan 3, 1981
97th	January 5, 1981 – January 3, 1983
98th	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1985
99th	January 3, 1985 – January iii, 1987
100th	January vi, 1987 – Jan 3, 1989		Jim Wright		Democratic	Texas 12
101st	January iii, 1989 – June six, 1989[f]
101st [one thousand]	June 6, 1989 – January 3, 1991		Tom Foley		Democratic	Washington v
102nd	January 3, 1991 – January 3, 1993
103rd	January 5, 1993 – January three, 1995
104th	Jan 4, 1995 – Jan 3, 1997		Newt Gingrich		Republican	Georgia 6
105th	Jan 7, 1997 – January three, 1999[f]
106th	Jan 6, 1999 – January 3, 2001		Dennis Hastert		Republican	Illinois 14
107th	January 3, 2001 – Jan three, 2003
108th	January 7, 2003 – January iii, 2005
109th	January 3, 2005 – January three, 2007
110th	January 4, 2007 – Jan iii, 2009		Nancy Pelosi		Autonomous	California 8
111th	Jan 6, 2009 – January 3, 2011
112th	January 5, 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 [one thousand]	Oct 29, 2015 – January 3, 2017		Paul Ryan		Republican	Wisconsin 1
115th	Jan iii, 2017 – Jan iii, 2019
116th	January three, 2019 – January three, 2021		Nancy Pelosi		Autonomous	California 12
117th	January iii, 2021 – present
References:[5] [half dozen]

Notes [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} During James K. Polk's tenure as speaker the Jacksonian bloc amalgamated into the modern Democratic Party.
2. ^ ^{a b} John Taylor served as speaker twice in the 1820s; initially he was as a member of the Democratic–Republican Party, and afterwards, 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, before political factions coalesced into formal parties; initially he identified with the pro–administration faction, just afterward he aligned himself with the anti–administration faction.
4. ^ The district listed is the commune the speaker represented at the fourth dimension they were in office, which may exist unlike in dissimilar Congresses due to redistricting.
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l g due north} Multi-election election.
6. ^ ^{a b c d eastward f yard h} Resigned from office and from Congress.
7. ^ ^{a b c d east f yard h i j} Intra-term special election.
8. ^ ^{a b c d e} Died in office.

Timeline [edit]

Speakers by time in role [edit]

The length of fourth dimension given below is based on the difference betwixt dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would exist 1 greater. Likewise, equally many speakers were elected multiple times, and to terms that were, in several instances, not consecutive, the length of fourth dimension given for each speaker measures their cumulative length of incumbency as speaker. Further, time after adjournment of one Congress but before the convening of the next Congress is not counted. For instance, Nathaniel Macon was speaker in both the eighth and 9th Congresses, but the viii-month gap between the two Congresses is not counted toward his service. The exact dates of service for each individual speaker is shown in the Term of service column of the to a higher place table.

Official seal of the Speaker of the United States Business firm of Representatives

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

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

Rank	Name	Time in office	TE	Year(s) in which elected
i	Sam Rayburn	17 years, 53 days	ten	1940; 1941; 1943; 1945; 1949; 1951; 1955; 1957; 1959; 1961
two	Henry Dirt	ten years, 196 days	half dozen	1811; 1813; 1815; 1817; 1819; 1823
iii	Tip O'Neill	9 years, 350 days	five	1977; 1979; 1981; 1983; 1985
four	John Westward. McCormack	8 years, 344 days	5	1962; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1969
5	Dennis Hastert	7 years, 359 days	4	1999; 2001; 2003; 2005
6	Nancy Pelosi	7 years, 48 days	iv	2007; 2009; 2019; 2021
7	Champ Clark	6 years, 357 days	4	1911; 1913; 1915; 1917
eight	Carl Albert	5 years, 337 days	3	1971; 1973; 1975
nine	Joseph Gurney Cannon	5 years, 285 days	4	1903; 1905; 1907; 1909
10	Tom Foley	5 years, 209 days	three	1989; 1991; 1993
xi	James G. Blaine	5 years, 93 days	3	1869; 1871; 1873
12	Frederick H. Gillett	four years, 341 days	iii	1919; 1921; 1923
13	John Boehner	4 years, 297 days	three	2011; 2013; 2015
14	Schuyler Colfax	iv years, 176 days	3	1863; 1865; 1867
15	Thomas Brackett Reed	4 years, 172 days	iii	1889; 1895; 1897
xvi	Nicholas Longworth	4 years, 133 days	3	1925; 1927; 1929
17	William B. Bankhead	iv years, 102 days	3	1936; 1937; 1939
eighteen	Andrew Stevenson	4 years, 83 days	four	1827; 1829; 1831; 1833
19	Joseph W. Martin Jr.	4 years	2	1947; 1953
20	Newt Gingrich	3 years, 361 days	ii	1995; 1997
21	Nathaniel Macon	3 years, 317 days	three	1801; 1803; 1805
22	John G. Carlisle	3 years, 267 days	iii	1883; 1885; 1887
23	Samuel J. Randall	three years, 215 days	iii	1876; 1877; 1879
24	Paul Ryan	iii years, 66 days	2	2015; 2017
25	Frederick Muhlenberg	iii years, 64 days	ii	1789; 1793
26	Joseph Bradley Varnum	iii years, 49 days	2	1807; 1809
27	Jonathan Dayton	three years, 14 days	2	1795; 1797
28	Charles Frederick Crisp	two years, 295 days	2	1891; 1893
29	James Thou. Polk	2 years, 268 days	2	1835; 1837
xxx (necktie)	Linn Boyd	ii years, 182 days	2	1851; 1853
	David B. Henderson	ii years, 182 days	2	1899; 1901
32	Jim Wright	2 years, 151 days	2	1987; 1989
33	John White	1 year, 277 days	1	1841
34	Galusha A. Grow	1 year, 243 days	ane	1861
35	John Westward. Taylor	1 year, 198 days	2	1820; 1825
36	Henry Thomas Rainey	ane twelvemonth, 163 days	i	1933
37	Joseph W. Byrns Sr.	i yr, 153 days	1	1935
38	Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	one year, 131 days	1	1791
39	John Wesley Davis	1 year, 93 days	1	1845
forty	Theodore Sedgwick	1 year, 92 days	1	1799
41 (necktie)	Philip P. Barbour	1 year, 90 days	ane	1821
	John Winston Jones	1 year, 90 days	1	1843
43	J. Warren Keifer	i year, 89 days	one	1881
44	Robert Charles Winthrop	1 yr, 88 days	1	1847
45 (necktie)	James Lawrence Orr	1 year, 87 days	1	1857
	John Nance Garner	1 yr, 87 days	ane	1931
47	Robert M. T. Hunter	i year, 78 days	1	1839
48	Howell Cobb	i yr, 72 days	1	1849
49	Langdon Cheves	i year, 44 days	1	1814
50	William Pennington	ane year, 31 days	one	1860
51	Nathaniel P. Banks	1 year, 30 days	i	1856
52	John Bell	275 days	1	1834
53	Michael C. Kerr	257 days	1	1875
54	Theodore 1000. Pomeroy	ane day	1	1869

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} Forte, David F. "Essays on Article I: Speaker of the House". Heritage Guide to The Constitution. Heritage Foundation. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
2. ^ Relyea, Harold C. (August v, 2005). "Continuity of Government: Current Federal Arrangements and the Future" (PDF). CRS Written report for Congress. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Inquiry Service, the Library of Congress. pp. ii–4. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Speaker Elections Decided by Multiple Ballots". history.business firm.gov. United States Business firm of Representatives. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
4. ^ Heitshusen, Valerie; Beth, Richard Southward. (January 4, 2019). "Speakers of the House: Elections, 1913–2019" (PDF). RL30857. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
5. ^ "List of Speakers of the House". Washington, D.C.: Function of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved Jan 24, 2022.
6. ^ Speakers of the House 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". memory.loc.gov. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress.
• "Congressional Record (Bound Edition)". govinfo.gov. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Publishing Part.
• "Listing of Speakers of the Business firm". Washington, D.C.: Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives.

Further reading [edit]

• Follett, Mary Parker (1909) [Start 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 Certificate 108–204 – The Cannon Centenary Conference: The Changing Nature of the Speakership

External links [edit]

• Official website

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