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Line 1: − The '''Speaker of the House''' is a Member of Congress who serves as the leader of the [[United States House of Representatives]]+ − ==Constitutional Role== − The position was created by Article I, Section 2 of the [[Constitution]]. However it is vague on the particularities of the position, as it is on many other positions, leaving it up to the House to flesh it out. Our [[Founding Fathers]] created the position recognizing the need for a leader to run the House. − ==Selection== − Traditionally the majority party has chosen the Speaker after the biannual Congressional Elections. If the majority party does not have its members vote for their candidate, a minority party member could become Speaker. However this has never occurred in the history of the Union. − − ==Speakers== − {|class="wikitable" col length="2" title="Speakers of the House of Representatives" − !Speaker!!Term − |- − |[[Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg]]||1789-1791 − |- − |[[Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.]]||1791-1793 − |- − |[[Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg]]||1793-1795 − |- − |[[Jonathan Dayton]]||1795-1799 − |- − |[[Theodore Sedgwick]]||1799-1801 − |- − |[[Nathaniel Macon]]||1801-1807 − |- − |[[Joseph Bradley Varnum]]||1807-1811 − |- − |[[Henry Clay]]||1811-1814 − |- − |[[Langdon Cheves]]||1814-1815 − |- − |[[Henry Clay]]||1815-1820 − |- − |[[John W. Taylor]]||1820-1821 − |- − |[[Philip Pendleton Barbour]]||1821-1823 − |- − |[[Henry Clay]]||1823-1825 − |- − |[[John W. Taylor]]||1825-1827 − |- − |[[Andrew Stevenson]]||1827-1834 − |- − |[[John Bell]]||1834-1835 − |- − |[[James Knox Polk]]||1835-1839 − |- − |[[Robert M. T. Hunter]]||1839-1841 − |- − |[[John White]]||1841-1843 − |- − |[[John Winston Jones]]||1843-1845 − |- − |[[John Wesley Davis]]||1845-1847 − |- − |[[Robert Charles Winthrop]]||1847-1849 − |- − |[[Howell Cobb]]||1849-1851 − |- − |[[Linn Boyd]]||1851-1855 − |- − |[[Nathaniel Prentice Banks]]||1856-1857 − |- − |[[James Lawrence Orr]]||1857-1859 − |- − |[[William Pennington]]||1860-1861 − |- − |[[Galusha A. Grow]]||1861-1863 − |- − |[[Schuyler Colfax]]||1863-1869 − |- − |[[Theodore Medad Pomeroy]]||1869 − |- − |[[James G. Blaine]]||1869-1875 − |- − |[[Michael Crawford Kerr]]||1875-1876 − |- − |[[Samuel Jackson Randall]]||1876-1881 − |- − |[[Joseph Warren Keifer]]||1881-1883 − |- − |[[John Griffin Carlisle]]||1883-1889 − |- − |[[Thomas Brackett Reed]]||1889-1891 − |- − |[[Charles Frederick Crisp]]||1891-1895 − |- − |[[Thomas Brackett Reed]]||1895-1899 − |- − |[[David B. Henderson]]||1899-1903 − |- − |[[Joseph Gurney Cannon]]||1903-1911 − |- − |[[Champ Clark]]||1911-1919 − |- − |[[Frederick Gillett]]||1919-1925 − |- − |[[Nicholas Longworth]]||1925-1931 − |- − |[[John Nance Garner]]||1931-1933 − |- − |[[Henry T. Rainey]]||1933-1934 − |- − |[[Joseph Wellington Byrns]]||1935-1936 − |- − |[[William Brockman Bankhead]]||1936-1940 − |- − |[[Sam Rayburn]]||1940-1947 − |- − |[[Joseph Martin]]||1947-1949 − |- − |[[Sam Rayburn]]||1949-1953 − |- − |[[Joseph Martin]]||1953-1955 − |- − |[[Sam Rayburn]]||1955-1961 − |- − |[[John McCormack]]||1961-1971 − |- − |[[Carl Bert Albert]]||1971-1977 − |- − |[[Tip O' Neill]]||1977-1987 − |- − |[[James Wright]]||1987-1989 − |- − |[[Thomas Foley]]||1989-1995 − |- − |[[Newt Gingrich]]||1995-1999 − |- − |[[J. Dennis Hastert]]||1999-2007 − |- − |[[Nancy Pelosi]]||2007-Present − |- − |} − − [[category:United States House of Representatives]]
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