List of Speakers of the Indiana House of Representatives
The Speaker of the Indiana State House of Representatives is the highest official in the Indiana House of Representatives, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party. As in most Anglophone countries and provinces, the speaker presides over the lower house of the legislature.
The current Speaker is Brian C. Bosma.
List of Speakers (Since Statehood, 1816-)
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| Speaker | Party | City/County | Start of service | End of service | Birthyear-Death | Notes |
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| Isaac Newton Blackford | No Party 1 | Vincennes, Knox County | November 4, 1816 | January 3, 1817 | (1786–1859) | First Speaker of the House after Statehood; State Supreme Court Justice (1817–53); Candidate for Governor & U.S. Senate |
| Amos Lane | No Party | Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County | December 1, 1817 | January 29, 1818 | (1778–1849) | Later U.S. Congressman (1833–37) |
| Williamson Dunn | No Party | Jefferson County | December 7, 1818 | January 22, 1820 | (1781–1854) | First Speaker to serve two terms; Father of three future State Representatives; Brother-in-law of Speaker David Hervey Maxwell |
| William Graham | No Party | Jackson County | November 27, 1820 | January 9, 1821 | (1782–1858) | Later U.S. Congressman (1837–39) |
| Samuel Milroy | No Party | Washington County | November 19, 1821 | January 3, 1822 | (1780–1845) | Father of two future State Representatives; founded town of Delphi, Indiana |
| General Washington Johnston | No Party | Vincennes, Knox County | December 2, 1822 | January 11, 1823 | (1776–1833) | Territorial Attorney-General (1811–14); Territorial Auditor (1813); Adjutant-General (1813); Territorial Treasurer (1813–14) |
| David Hervey Maxwell | Adams-Clay Republican | Bloomington, Monroe County | December 1, 1823 | January 31, 1824 | (1786–1854) | Later Mayor of Bloomington (1848); Brother-in-law of Speaker Williamson Dunn |
| Stephen C. Stevens | Adams Supporter | Franklin County | January 10 | February 12, 1825 | (c1793-1870) | Later Supreme Court Justice (1831–36); 1846 Gubernatorial Candidate |
| Robert Morgan Evans | Adams Supporter | Princeton, Gibson County | December 5, 1825 | January 21, 1826 | (1783–1844) | 1833 Congressional Candidate; Brother of Speaker Thomas Jefferson Evans |
| Harbin H. Moore | Adams Supporter | Harrison County | December 4, 1826 | January 24, 1828 | (c1791-1834) | First Speaker to serve three terms (non-consecutive); Attorney-General (1822); 1828 Gubernatorial Candidate; 1833 Congressional Candidate |
| Isaac Howk | Adams Supporter | Clark County | December 1, 1828 | January 24, 1829 | (1793–1833) | 1831 Congressional Candidate |
| Ross Smiley | Jacksonian | Dunlapsville, Union County | December 7, 1829 | January 30, 1830 | (1788–1878) | 1828 Presidential Elector; Lived to age of 90 |
| Isaac Howk | Anti-Jacksonian | Clark County | December 6, 1830 | February 10, 1831 | (1793–1833) | (See note above) 2nd Term |
| Harbin H. Moore | Anti-Jacksonian | Floyd County | December 5, 1831 | February 3, 1832 | (c1791-1834) | (See note above) 3rd Term |
| John Wesley Davis | Jacksonian | Carlisle, Sullivan County | December 3, 1832 | February 4, 1833 | (1799–1859) | Served in US Congress (1835–41; 1843–47); Speaker of the US House of Representatives (1845–47); US Commissioner to China (1848–50); Oregon Governor (1853–54) |
| Nathan B. Palmer | Jacksonian | Jefferson County | December 2, 1833 | February 3, 1834 | (1790–1875) | 1832 Presidential Elector; State Treasurer (1834–41); 1841 Congressional Candidate |
| James Gregory | Anti-Jacksonian | Warren County | December 1, 1834 | February 9, 1835 | (1785–1843) | Father of three future state legislators; 1835 Congressional Candidate; Died in Yucatán, Mexico |
| Caleb Blood Smith | Anti-Jacksonian | Connersville, Fayette County | December 7, 1835 | February 6, 1837 | (1808–1864) | 1840 & 1856 Presidential Elector; Served in US Congress (1843–49); 1848 U.S. Senate Candidate; US Secretary of the Interior (1861–62) |
| Thomas Jefferson Evans | Whig | Covington, Fountain County | December 4, 1837 | February 18, 1839 | (c1795-1841) | 1839 Congressional Candidate; Brother of Speaker Robert Morgan Evans |
| James Gray Read | Democrat | Jeffersonville, Clark County | December 2, 1839 | February 24, 1840 | (1793–1869) | 1831 Gubernatorial Candidate; 1832 U.S. Senate Candidate; 1844 Presidential Elector |
| Samuel Judah | Whig | Vincennes, Knox County | December 7, 1840 | February 15, 1841 | (1798–1869) | US Attorney for Indiana (1829–33); 1831 U.S. Senate Candidate |
| John Wesley Davis | Democrat | Carlisle, Sullivan County | December 6, 1841 | January 31, 1842 | (1799–1859) | (See note above) 2nd Term |
| Thomas Jefferson Henley | Democrat | Clark County | December 5, 1842 | February 13, 1843 | (1808–1875) | First native-born Speaker. Later US Congressman (1843–49); Moved to California during the '49 Gold Rush; 1852 Presidential Elector from California |
| Andrew L. Robinson | Democrat | Carroll County | December 4, 1843 | January 15, 1844 | (1807–1883) | 1852 Gubernatorial Candidate |
| Alexander Campbell Stevenson | Whig | Putnam County | December 2, 1844 | January 13, 1845 | (1802–1889) | |
| John Smith Simonson | Democrat | Charlestown, Clark County | December 1, 1845 | January 20, 1846 | (1796–1881) | 1837 Congressional Candidate |
| Robert N. Carnan | Whig | Vincennes, Knox County | December 7, 1846 | January 28, 1847 | (1805–1887) | |
| William Anderson Porter | Whig | Corydon, Harrison County | December 6, 1847 | February 17, 1848 | (1800–1884) | Last Whig Speaker |
| Thomas A. Hendricks | Democrat | East Fultonham, Muskingum County | February 17, 1848 | December 4, 1848 | (1819–1885) | U.S. Congressman (1851–55), U.S. Senator (1863–69), Governor of Indiana (1873–77), U.S. Vice President (1885) |
| George Whitfield Carr | Democrat | Leesville, Lawrence County | December 4, 1848 | January 21, 1850 | (1807–1892) | 1848 Presidential Elector; President of the Constitutional Convention (1850–51); 1858 & 1872 Congressional Candidate |
| Ebenezer Dumont | Democrat | Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County | December 30, 1850 | February 14, 1851 | (1814–1871) | 1852 Presidential Elector; US Congressman (1863–67) |
| John Wesley Davis² | Democrat | Carlisle, Sullivan County | December 1, 1851 | June 21, 1852³ | (1799–1859) | (See note above) 3rd Term |
| William Hayden English² | Democrat | Lexington, Scott County | (See above) | (See above) | (1822–1896) | Later US Congressman (1853–61); Smithsonian Institution Regent (1853–61); 1880 Vice-Presidential Candidate |
| Oliver Brooks Torbet | Democrat | Dearborn County | January 6 | March 7, 18534 | (1827–1864) | Youngest Speaker (25); Died at 37 |
| David Kilgore | Fusion/Oppositionist5 | Delaware County | January 4 | March 5, 1855 | (1804–1879) | Later US Congressman (1857–61) |
| Ballard Smith | Democrat | Cannelton, Perry County | January 8 | March 9, 1857 | (1821–1866) | |
| Jonathan W. Gordon | Republican | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 6 | March 7, 18596 | (1820–1887) | 1872 Presidential Elector; Clerk of the State Supreme Court (1881–82) |
| Cyrus McCracken Allen | Republican | Vincennes, Knox County | January 10 | March 11, 18617 | (1817–1883) | 1860 Presidential Elector; 1864 Congressional Candidate |
| Samuel Hamilton Buskirk | Democrat | Monroe County | January 8 | March 9, 1863 | (1820–1879) | 1856 Presidential Elector; State Supreme Court Justice (1870–76) |
| John Upfold Pettit | Republican | Wabash, Wabash County | January 5 | March 6, 18658 | (1820–1881) | US Congressman (1855–61); Father of Speaker Henry Corbin Pettet |
| David Cummins Branham | Republican | Madison, Jefferson County | January 10 | March 11, 1867 | (1812–1877) | |
| Ambrose P. Stanton9 | Republican | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 7 | March 8, 1869 | (1834–1912) | |
| George Abraham Buskirk9 | Republican | Bloomington, Monroe County | April 8 | May 17, 1869 | (1829–1874) | |
| William Gray Mack | Democrat | Terre Haute, Vigo County | January 5 | February 27, 1871 | (1827–1898) | |
| William Kirkpatrick Edwards | Republican | Terre Haute, Vigo County | January 9 | March 10, 187310 | (1820–1878) | Mayor of Terre Haute (1853); 1860 Presidential Elector |
| David Turpie | Democrat | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 7 | March 8, 187511 | (1829–1909) | 1862, 1864 & 1866 Congressional Candidate; U.S. Senator (1863; 1887–1899); U.S. District Attorney for Indiana (1886–87) |
| John Overmyer | Republican | North Vernon, Jennings County | January 4 | March 5, 187712 | (1844–1919) | Later switched to Democratic party in 1892 |
| Henry Sullivan Cauthorn | January ? | March ?, 187913 | ||||
| William Marion Ridpath | Republican | Clay County | January 6 | March 7, 188114 | (1845–1914) | Moved to Dakota Territory after leaving Speakership |
| William D. Bynum | Democrat | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 4 | March 5, 1883 | (1846–1927) | Mayor of Washington, Indiana (1875–79); 1876 Presidential Elector; US Congressman (1885–95) |
| Charles LaFayette Jewett | Democrat | New Albany, Floyd County | January 8 | March 9, 188515 | (1848–1931) | |
| Warren Grover Sayre | Republican | Wabash, Wabash County | January 6 | March 7, 1887 | (1844–1931) | Mayor of Wabash (1868–76) |
| Mason Jenks Niblack | Democrat | Vincennes, Knox County | January 10, 1889 | March 9, 1891 | (1857–1926) | U.S. House Parliamentarian; First consecutively reelected Speaker since 1849 |
| James B. Curtis | Democrat | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 5 | March 6, 1893 | (1859–1922) | |
| Justus C. Adams | Republican | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 10 | March 11, 1895 | (1841–1904) | |
| Henry Corbin Pettit | Republican | Wabash, Wabash County | January 7 | March 8, 1897 | (1863–1913) | Mayor of Wabash (1888–90); Son of Speaker John Upfold Pettit |
| Frank Leslie Littleton | Republican | Indianapolis, Marion County | January 5 | March 6, 1899 | (1868–1935) | |
| Samuel Raleigh Artman | Republican | Lebanon, Boone County | January 1901 | (1866–1930) | ||
| Henry Wright Marshall, Sr. | Republican | Lafayette, Tippecanoe County | January 1903 | (1865–1957) | Lived to age of 92. | |
| Emmett Forrest Branch | Republican | Martinsville, Morgan County | 1907 | 1909 | (May 16, 1874 - February 23, 1932) | Later Governor of Indiana (1924–1925) |
| Harry G. Leslie | Republican | Lafayette, Tippecanoe County | 1925 | 1927 | (April 6, 1878 - December 10, 1937) | Later Governor of Indiana (1929–1933) |
| Edward H. Stein | Democrat | Bloomfield, Greene County | 1935 | 1937 | (September 1, 1891 - October 1, 1965) | |
| Hobart Creighton | Republican | Atwood, Indiana, Kosciusko County | 1942 | 1948 | (1896-1976) | Republican Gubernatorial Candidate (1948) |
| J. Roberts Dailey | Republican | January 1981 | (June 22, 1919 – August 13, 2005) | |||
| Michael K. Phillips | Democrat | Boonville, Warrick County | 1990 | 1995 | ||
| John R. Gregg | Democrat | Sandborn, Knox County | 1996 | 2002 | ||
| B. Patrick Bauer | Democrat | South Bend, St. Joseph County | January 2003 | January 2005 | ||
| Brian C. Bosma | Republican | January 2005 | January 2007 | |||
| B. Patrick Bauer | Democrat | January 2007 | January 2011 | |||
| Brian C. Bosma | Republican | January 2011 | present |
See also
References
- 1. No party labels from 1816–1823, as there were no organized partisan political groups in the state during this period (although all federal officeholders during this period were Democrat-Republicans).
- 2. Reference sources list the 36th General Assembly having 2 Speakers (Davis & English)
- 3. The 36th General Assembly had two separate sessions, the first from December 1, 1851 until March 10, 1852 and April 20, 1852 until June 21, 1852. This was the first time the legislature convened outside of the late fall and winter.
- 4. Beginning in 1853, regular legislature sessions convened every 2 years.
- 5. The Fusionists were the remaining members of differing factions of former Whigs, Free-Soilers, anti-slavery Democrats, most of whom would become Republicans.
- 6. A special session of the 40th General Assembly was convened previously to the regular session from November 20 to December 25, 1858.
- 7. A special session of the 41st General Assembly was convened after the regular session from April 24 to June 2, 1861. This session was mistakenly considered the 42nd General Assembly, but was later considered a special session. Because of this error, the following regular session became the 43rd General Assembly, hence there was no official 42nd General Assembly convened.
- 8. A special session of the 44th General Assembly was convened after the regular session from November 13 to December 22, 1865.
- 9. Ambrose P. Stanton only served as Speaker during the regular session of the 46th General Assembly. George Buskirk served as Speaker during the special session.
- 10. A special session of the 48th General Assembly was convened before the regular session from November 13 to December 22, 1872.
- 11. A brief special session of the 49th General Assembly was convened the day after the regular session ended, from March 9 to March 15, 1875.
- 12. A brief special session of the 50th General Assembly was convened the day after the regular session ended, from March 6 to March 15, 1877.
- 13. A special session of the 51st General Assembly was convened the day after the regular session ended, from March 11 to March 31, 1879.
- 14. A special session of the 51st General Assembly was convened the day after the regular session ended, from March 8 to April 16, 1881.
- 15. A special session of the 53rd General Assembly was convened the day after the regular session ended, from March 10 to April 13, 1885.
- Source: A Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly
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