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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (view source)
Revision as of 17:26, January 24, 2010
, 17:26, January 24, 2010Reverted edits by CourageWolf (Talk) to last version by Chippeterson
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]]