List of speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives

The speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives is the speaker or presiding officer of the Vermont House of Representatives, the lower house of the Vermont Legislature.

The speaker presides over sessions of the Houses, recognizes members so that they may speak, and ensures compliance with House rules for parliamentary procedure. The speaker also assigns members to the standing committees of the House and assigns committee chairpersons. The speaker is second (behind the lieutenant governor) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Vermont.

Vermont was admitted to the Union in 1791 as the fourteenth state, but its House of Representatives dates from 1778, when the Vermont Republic was created.

Vermont had a unicameral legislature until 1836, when the Governor's Council was abolished and the Vermont Senate was created.

The speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives earned $10,080 starting in 2005. Beginning in 2007, this amount receives an annual cost of living increase.

Speaker Term Party Joseph Bowker 1778 Nathan Clark 1778 Thomas Chandler Jr. 1778–1780 Samuel Robinson 1780 Thomas Porter 1780–1782 Increase Moseley 1782–1783 Isaac Tichenor 1783–1784 Federalist Nathaniel Niles 1784–1785 Democratic-Republican Stephen R. Bradley 1785–1786 Democratic-Republican John Strong 1786 Democratic-Republican Gideon Olin 1786–1793 Democratic-Republican Daniel Buck 1793–1795 Federalist Lewis R. Morris 1795–1797 Federalist Abel Spencer 1797–1798 Federalist Daniel Farrand 1798–1799 Federalist Amos Marsh 1799–1802 Federalist Abel Spencer 1802–1803 Federalist Theophilus Harrington 1803–1804 Democratic-Republican Aaron Leland 1804–1808 Democratic-Republican Dudley Chase 1808–1813 Democratic-Republican Daniel Chipman 1813–1815 Federalist William A. Griswold 1815–1818 Democratic-Republican Richard Skinner 1818–1819 Democratic-Republican William A. Griswold 1819–1820 Democratic-Republican D. Azro A. Buck 1820–1822 Adams-Clay Republican George E. Wales 1822–1824 Adams-Clay Republican Isaac Fletcher 1824 Democratic-Republican D. Azro A. Buck 1825–1826 Adams-Clay Republican Robert B. Bates 1826–1829 Democratic-Republican D. Azro A. Buck 1829–1830 Adams-Clay Republican Robert B. Bates 1830–1831 Democratic-Republican John Smith 1831–1834 Democratic-Republican Ebenezer N. Briggs 1834–1836 Whig Carlos Coolidge 1836–1837 Whig Solomon Foot 1837–1839 Whig Carlos Coolidge 1839–1842 Whig Andrew Tracy 1842–1845 Whig Ebenezer N. Briggs 1845–1847 Whig Solomon Foot 1847–1848 Whig William C. Kittredge 1848–1850 Whig Thomas E. Powers 1850–1853 Whig Horatio Needham 1853–1854 Free Soil Democratic George W. Grandey 1854–1857 Republican George F. Edmunds 1857–1860 Republican Augustus P. Hunton 1860–1862 Republican J. Gregory Smith 1862–1863 Republican Abraham B. Gardner 1863–1865 Republican John W. Stewart 1865–1868 Republican George W. Grandey 1868–1870 Republican Charles Herbert Joyce 1870–1872 Republican Franklin Fairbanks 1872–1874 Republican Horace Henry Powers 1874 Republican Josiah Grout 1874–1876 Republican John W. Stewart 1876–1878 Republican James Loren Martin 1878–1884 Republican James K. Batchelder 1884–1886 Republican Josiah Grout 1886–1890 Republican Henry R. Start 1890 Republican Hosea A. Mann Jr. 1890–1892 Republican William Wallace Stickney 1892–1896 Republican William A. Lord 1896–1898 Republican Kittredge Haskins 1898–1900 Republican Fletcher Dutton Proctor 1900–1902 Republican John H. Merrifield 1902–1906 Republican Thomas Charles Cheney 1906–1910 Republican Frank E. Howe 1910–1912 Republican Charles Albert Plumley 1912–1915 Republican John E. Weeks 1915–1917 Republican Stanley C. Wilson 1917 Republican Charles S. Dana 1917–1921 Republican Franklin S. Billings 1921–1923 Republican Orlando L. Martin 1923–1925 Republican Roswell M. Austin 1925–1927 Republican Loren R. Pierce 1927–1929 Republican Benjamin Williams 1929–1931 Republican Edward H. Deavitt 1931–1933 Republican George David Aiken 1933–1935 Republican Ernest E. Moore 1935–1937 Republican Mortimer R. Proctor 1937–1939 Republican Oscar L. Shepard 1939–1941 Republican Lee Earl Emerson 1941–1943 Republican Asa S. Bloomer 1943–1945 Republican Joseph H. Denny 1945–1947 Republican Winston L. Prouty 1947–1949 Republican J. Harold Stacey 1949–1951 Republican Wallace M. Fay 1951–1953 Republican Consuelo N. Bailey 1953–1955 Republican John E. Hancock 1955–1957 Republican Charles H. Brown 1957–1959 Republican F. Ray Keyser Jr. 1959–1961 Republican Leroy Lawrence 1961–1963 Republican Franklin S. Billings Jr. 1963–1965 Republican Richard Walker Mallary 1965–1969 Republican John S. Burgess 1969–1971 Republican Walter L. Kennedy 1971–1975 Republican Timothy J. O'Connor Jr. 1975–1981 Democratic Stephan A. Morse 1981–1985 Republican Ralph G. Wright 1985–1995 Democratic Michael J. Obuchowski 1995–2001 Democratic Walter E. Freed 2001–2005 Republican Gaye Randolph Symington 2005–2009 Democratic Shapleigh "Shap" Smith Jr. 2009–2017 Democratic Mitzi Johnson 2017–2021 Democratic Jill Krowinski 2021- Democratic

See also List of Vermont General Assemblies

References