Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
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 [1]
Speakers since 1818
| Picture | Name | Town | Political party | Term of service | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Plant | Stratford | Toleration Republican | 1819, 1820 | |
|  | Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | Toleration Republican | 1821 | 
|  | Seth P. Beers | Litchfield | Toleration Republican | 1822, 1823 | 
| Ralph I. Ingersoll | New Haven | Toleration Republican | 1824 | |
|  | Samuel A. Foot | Cheshire | National Republican | 1825, 1826 | 
| Ebenezer Young | Killingly | National Republican | 1827, 1828 | |
|  | Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | National Republican | 1829 | 
|  | Henry W. Edwards | New Haven | Jacksonian | 1830 | 
| Martin Welles | Wethersfield | National Republican | 1831, 1832 | |
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Jacksonian | 1833 | |
| Roger Huntington | Norwich | National Republican | 1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834) | |
| William L. Storrs | Middletown | National Republican | 1834 | |
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835) | |
| .jpg) | Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Democratic | 1835, 1836 | 
| Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1837 | |
| .jpg) | William W. Boardman | New Haven | Whig | 1838, 1839 | 
| Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1840, 1841 | |
| Stillman K. Wightman | Middletown | Democratic | 1842 | |
| Noyes Billings | New London | Democratic | 1843 | |
| Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1844 | |
| .jpg) | William W. Boardman | NewHaven | Whig | 1845 | 
| Cyrus H. Beardslee | Monroe | Democratic | 1846 | |
|  | Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1847, 1848 | 
| John C. Lewis | Plymouth | Free Soil Democratic | 1849 | |
|  | Origen S. Seymour | Litchfield | Democratic | 1850 | 
| Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1851 | |
| Charles B. Phelps | Woodbury | Democratic | 1852 | |
|  | William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1853 | 
|  | Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854) | 
| Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1854 | |
| Austin Baldwin | Middletown | American | 1855 | |
| Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1856 | |
| Eliphalet A. Bulkeley | Hartford | Republican[2] | 1857 | |
| Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1858 | |
| Oliver H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1859, 1860 | |
|  | Augustus Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1861 | 
|  | Henry C. Deming | Hartford | Democratic | 1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861) | 
| Josiah M. Carter | Norwalk | Republican | 1862 | |
| .jpg) | Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Republican | 1863 | 
| John S. Rice | Farmington | Union | 1864 | |
| Eleazer K. Foster | New Haven | Republican | 1865 | |
| David Gallup | Plainfield | Union | 1866 | |
|  | John T. Wait | Norwich | Union | 1867 | 
| Charles Ives | East Haven | Republican | 1868 | |
|  | Orville H. Platt | Meriden | Republican | 1869 | 
|  | Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Republican | 1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870) | 
| Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1870 | |
| Edwin H. Bugbee | Killingly | Republican | 1871 | |
| Amos S. Treat | Woodbridge | Republican | 1872 | |
|  | William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1873 | 
|  | Tilton E. Doolittle | New Haven | Democratic | 1874 | 
| Charles Durand | Derby | Republican | 1875 | |
| .jpg) | Thomas M. Waller | New London | Democratic | 1876 | 
| Lynde Harrison | Guilford | Republican | 1877 | |
| Charles H. Briscoe | Enfield | Republican | 1878 | |
| Dexter R. Wright | New Haven | Republican | 1879 | |
|  | Dwight Marcy | Vernon | Republican | 1880 | 
| William C. Case | Granby | Republican | 1881 | |
|  | John Manning Hall | Windham | Republican | 1882 | 
| Charles H. Pine | Derby | Republican | 1883 | |
| .jpg) | Henry B. Harrison | New Haven | Republican | 1884 | 
| .jpg) | William Edgar Simonds | Canton | Republican | 1885 | 
|  | John A. Tibbits | New London | Republican | 1886 | 
|  | Heusted W. R. Hoyt | Greenwich | Republican | 1887 | 
| John H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1889 | |
| Allen W. Paige | Huntington | Republican | 1891 | |
| Isaac W. Brooks | Torrington | Republican | 1893 | |
| Samuel Fessenden | Stamford | Republican | 1895 | |
| Joseph L. Barbour | Hartford | Republican | 1897 | |
|  | Frank B. Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1899 | 
| _(14803111273).jpg) | John H. Light | Norwalk | Republican | 1901 | 
| Michael Kenealy | Stamford | Republican | 1903 | |
| .jpg) | Marcus H. Holcomb | Southington | Republican | 1905 | 
|  | John Q. Tilson | New Haven | Republican | 1907 | 
| Elmore S. Banks | Fairfield | Republican | 1909 | |
|   | Frederick A. Scott | Plymouth | Republican | 1911 | 
| Morris C. Webster | Harwinton | Republican | 1913 | |
| Frank E. Healy | Windsor Locks | Republican | 1915 | |
| James F. Walsh | Greenwich | Republican | 1917 | |
| Frederick W. Huxford | Stamford | Republican | 1921 | |
| Leonard J. Nickerson | Cornwall | Republican | 1923 | |
| Elbert L. Darbie | Killingly | Republican | 1925 | |
| John H. Hill | Shelton | Republican | 1927 | |
| Samuel A. Eddy | North Canaan | Republican | 1929 | |
| Howard W. Alcorn | Suffield | Republican | 1931 | |
| William Hanna | Bethel | Republican | 1933, 1935 | |
| J. Mortimer Bell | Salisbury | Republican | 1937 | |
| Walter Howe | Litchfield | Republican | 1939 | |
| Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr. | Suffield | Republican | 1941 | |
| Harold E. Mitchell | West Hartford | Republican | 1943 | |
| E. Lea Marsh Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1945 | |
| Frederick H. Holbrook | Madison | Republican | 1947 | |
| John R. Thim | Hamden | Republican | 1949 | |
| Mansfield D. Sprague | New Canaan | Republican | 1951 | |
| Arthur E. B. Tanner | Woodbury | Republican | 1953 | |
| W. Sheffield Cowles | Farmington | Republican | 1955 | |
| Nelson C. L. Brown, II | Groton | Republican | 1957 | |
| William J. O'Brien Jr. | Portland | Democratic | 1959 | |
| Anthony E. Wallace | Simsbury | Republican | 1961 | |
| J. Tyler Patterson Jr. | Old Lyme | Republican | 1963-1965 | |
| Robert J. Testo | Bridgeport | Democratic | 1967 | |
|  | William R. Ratchford | Danbury | Democratic | 1969-1973 | 
| Francis J. Collins | Brookfield Center | Republican | 1973-1975 | |
| James J. Kennelly | Hartford | Democratic | 1975-1979 | |
| Ernest N. Abate | Stamford | Democratic | 1979-1983 | |
| Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1983-1985 | |
| R. E. Van Norstrand | Darien | Republican | 1985-1987 | |
| Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1987-1989 | |
| Richard J. Balducci | Newington | Democratic | 1989-1993 | |
| Thomas D. Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 1993-1999 | |
| Moira K. Lyons | Stamford | Democratic | 1999-2005 | |
|  | James A. Amann | Milford | Democratic | 2005-2009 | 
|  | Christopher G. Donovan | Meriden | Democratic | 2009-2013 | 
| J. Brendan Sharkey | Hamden | Democratic | 2013-2017 | |
|  | Joe Aresimowicz | Berlin | Democratic | 2017-2021 | 
| Matthew Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 2021- | 
References
- ^ Janicki, Mary M. (September 14, 1995). "Two-Term Precedent for Speakers of the House of Representatives of Connecticut". The Office of the House Clerk - Connecticut General Assembly. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Connecticut". The National Era. May 14, 1857.
- "SOTS: Speakers of the House of Representatives". www.ct.gov. Archived from the original on November 6, 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2015.