List of Parliamentary Speakers in the Americas in 1984

Parliamentary Speakers in the Americas in 1984. This article contains among others a list of speakers of parliaments of sovereign states, Canadian provinces, British dependent territories and French overseas departments.

Sovereign states

State		Title	Name	Entered office
Antigua and Barbuda		President of the Senate	W. K. Heath	1976
Antigua and Barbuda		Speaker of the House of Representatives	Bradley Carrott	1984 ?
	Barbuda	Chairman of the Barbuda Council	Hilbourne Frank	1979
Argentina		President of the Senate (The Vice President of Argentina)	Dr Victor Martínez	December 10, 1983
Argentina		Provisional President of the Senate	Dr Edison Otero	November 29, 1983
Argentina		President of the Chamber of Deputies	Dr Juan Carlos Pugliese	November 28, 1983
The Bahamas		President of the Senate	Edwin Coleby	1983
The Bahamas		Speaker of the House of Assembly	Sir Clifford Darling	1977
Barbados		President of the Senate	Sir Arnott Samuel Cato	1976
Barbados		Speaker of the House of Assembly	C. Lindsay Bolden[1]	1984
Belize		President of the Senate	Doris June Garcia[2]	1984
Belize		Speaker of the House of Representatives	Carlos Castilho (or Castillo)[3]	1984
Bolivia		President of the Senate	Julio Garrett	1980 ?
Bolivia		President of the Chamber of Deputies	?	?
Brazil		President of the Senate of Brazil	Senator Moacyr Dalla	1983
Brazil		President of the Chamber of Deputies	Flávio Marcilio	1983
Canada		Speaker of the Senate	Guy Charbonneau[4]	November 2, 1984
Canada		Speaker of the House of Commons	John Bosley[5]	November 6, 1984
	Alberta	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Gerard Amerongen	1972
	British Columbia	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Kenneth Walter Davidson	1982
	Manitoba	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Jim Walding	February 25, 1982
	New Brunswick	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	James Tucker	1981
	Newfoundland and Labrador	Speaker of the House of Assembly	James Russell	1982
	Nova Scotia	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Arthur R. Donahoe	1981
	Ontario	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	John M. Turner	April 21, 1981
	Prince Edward Island	Speaker of the Leguislative Assembly	Marion Reid	1983
	Quebec	President of the National Assembly	Richard Guay	March 23, 1983
	Saskatchewan	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Herbert Junior Swan	1982
	Northwest Territories	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Donald Morton Stewart	October 22, 1980
	Yukon	Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	Donald Taylor	1978
Colombia		President of the Senate	Dr José Name Terán[6]	July 20, 1984
Colombia		President of the Chamber of Representatives	Dr Daniel Mazuera Gómez[7]	1984
Costa Rica		President of the Legislative Assembly	Bernal Jímenez Monge[8]	1984
Cuba		President of the National Assembly of People's Power	Flavio Bravo Pardo	1981
Dominica		Speaker of the House of Assembly	Marie Davies-Pierre	August 13, 1980
Dominican Republic		President of Congreso Nacional	Noel Subervi Espinosa ?	1982 ?
Ecuador		President of Congreso Nacional	Raúl Barca Carvo ?	1984 ?
El Salvador		President of the National Constituent Assembly	Dr Maria Julia Castillo Rodas	1983
Grenada		President of the Senate	Larry Joseph	1984
Grenada		Speaker of the House of Representatives	Hudson Scipio	1984
Guatemala		President of the National Constituent Assembly	?	1984 ?
Guyana		Speaker of the National Assembly	Sase Narain	1971
Haiti		President of the National Assembly	Jaurès Lévêque ?	1984 ?
Honduras		President of the National Congress	Lic. Efrain Bu Girón	1982
Jamaica		President of the Senate	Jeanette Grant-Woodham	August 21, 1984
Jamaica		Speaker of the House of Representatives	Alva Ross	1983
Mexico		President of the Senate	Miguel González Avelar	1982
Mexico		President of the Federal Chamber of Deputies	?	?
Nicaragua		President of the National Constituent Assembly	Commdr Carlos Núñez Téllez	1984 ?
Panama		President of the National Assembly
Paraguay		President of the Senate	Dr Juan Rámon Chávez	1968
Paraguay		President of the Chamber of Deputies	?	?
Peru		President of the Senate	Dr Manuel Ulloa Elías[9]	July 26, 1984
Peru		President of the Chamber of Deputies	Dr Elías Mendoza Harbersperger[10]	July 26, 1984
Trinidad and Tobago		President of the Senate	Dr Wahid Ali	June 18, 1971
Trinidad and Tobago		Speaker of the House of Assembly	Matthew Ramcharan	November 27, 1961
	Tobago	Chairman of the House of Assembly	Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson	December 1980
USA		President of the Senate (The Vice President of the United States)	George Herbert Walker Bush	January 20, 1981
USA		President Pro Tempore	Strom Thurmond	January 3, 1981
USA		Speaker of the House of Representatives	Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.	January 4, 1977
	Puerto Rico	President of the Senate	Miguel Hernández Agosto	1981
	Puerto Rico	Speaker of the House of Representatives	Severo Colberg Ramírez[11]	February 28, 1982
	United States Virgin Islands	President of the Legislature	Hugo Dennis, Jr.[12]	March 1983
Venezuela		President of the Senate	Reinaldo Leandro Mora ?	1983 ?
Venezuela		President of the Chamber of Deputies	Leonardo Ferrer ?	1983 ?

Autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Country	Title	Name	Entered office
Netherlands Antilles	Speaker of the Staten	R. A. E. Markes	1982 ?

British dependent territories

Territory	Title	Name	Entered office
Anguilla	Speaker of the House of Assembly (The Governor)	Alastair Baillie	1982
Bermuda	President of the Senate	Hugh W. Richardson	1980
Bermuda	Speaker of the House of Assembly	F. John Barritt	1982 ?
British Virgin Islands	Speaker of the House of Assembly	Keith Flax	1983
Cayman Islands	President of the Legislative Assembly (The Governor)	George P. Lloyd	1982
Falkland Islands	President of the Legislative Council (The Civil Commissioner)	Sir Rex Hunt	June 26, 1982
Montserrat	Speaker of the Legislative Council	H. A. Fergus	1975
Turks and Caicos Islands	Speaker of the Legislative Council	W. H. Mills	1984 ?

French overseas departments

Department	Title	Name	Entered office
French Guiana	President of the General Council	Elie Castor	1983
French Guiana	President of the Regional Council	Georges Othily	1982
Guadeloupe	President of the General Council	Lucette Michaux-Chevry	March 24, 1982
Guadeloupe	President of the Regional Council	José Moustache	February 1983
Martinique	President of the General Council	Émile Maurice	1970
Martinique	President of the Regional Council	Aimé Césaire	February 1983
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	President of the General Council	Albert Pen	June 1968

Part of the Kingdom of Denmark

Part	Title	Name	Entered office
Greenland	Chairman of the Parliament	Jonathan Motzfeldt	1979

Footnotes

1. Bolden succeeded W. C. B. Hinds in 1984
2. Garcia succeeded Gadsby Ramos in 1984
3. Castilho succeeded Charles Bartlett Hyde in 1984
4. Charbonneau succeeded Maurice Riel in 1984
5. Previous speakers in 1984: Jeanne Sauvé (April 14, 1980 – January 15, 1984) and Cyril Lloyd Francis (January 16, 1984 – November 5, 1984)
6. Terán succeeded Joaquin Holguín Sardi in 1984
7. Mazuera succeeded Cesar Gaviria Trujlilo in 1984
8. Jimenez succeeded Jorge Luis Villanueva in 1984
9. Ulloa succeeded Ricardo Monteagudo Monteagudo in 1984
10. Mendoza succeeded Dagobert Láinez Vodanovic in 1984
11. Colberg left office on December 31, 1984
12. Dennis Jr. left office in 1984

Sources

• The Europa World Year Book 1985