List of Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives

The Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Texas House of Representatives.

For more information about the office and powers of the Speaker see Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.

Republic of Texas

Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Congresses of the Republic of Texas.

Name	Term in Office	Congress
Ira Ingram	1836–1837	1st
Branch Tanner Archer	1837	2nd
Joseph Rowe	1838
John M. Hansford	1838–1839	3rd
David Spangler Kaufman	1840–1841	4th
		5th
Kenneth Lewis Anderson	1841–1842	6th
Nicholas Henry Darnell	1842–1843	7th
Richardson A. Scurry	1843–1844	8th
John M. Lewis	1844–1846	9th

State of Texas

Seal of the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives

Speakers of the House of Representatives in the Legislatures of the State of Texas.

Name	Party	Term in Office	Legislative Sessions
William Crump	Democratic	16 February 1846 – 3 March 1846	1st
John Brown	Democratic	3 March 1846 – 9 March 1846
Edward Thomas Branch	Democratic	9 March 1846 – 16 March 1846
William Crump	Democratic	16 March 1846 – 1 May 1846
William H. Bourland	Democratic	1 May 1846–before 13 May 1846
Stephen W. Perkins	Democratic	before 13 May 1846 – 13 December 1847
J. W. Henderson	Democratic	13 December 1847 – 5 November 1849	2nd
Charles G. Keenan	Democratic	5 November 1849 – 3 November 1851	3rd
David Catchings Dickson	Democratic	3 November 1851 – 7 November 1853	4th
Hardin Richard Runnels	Democratic	7 November 1853 – 5 November 1855	5th
Hamilton Prioleau Bee	Democratic	5 November 1855 – 2 November 1857	6th
William S. Taylor	Democratic	2 November 1857 – 18 January 1858	7th
Matthew Fielding Locke	Democratic	18 January 1858 – 7 November 1859
M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	7 November 1859 – 4 November 1861	8th
Constantine W. Buckley	Democratic	4 November 1861 – 7 December 1861	9th
Nicholas Henry Darnell	Democratic	7 December 1861 – 1862[1]
Vacant[1]		1862–2 February 1863
Constantine W. Buckley	Democratic	2 February 1863 – 2 November 1863
M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	2 November 1863 – 6 August 1866	10th
Nathaniel Macon Burford	Unionist[2]	6 August 1866 – 25 April 1869[3]	11th
Vacant[3]		25 April 1869 – 8 February 1870
Ira Hobart Evans	Republican	8 February 1870 – 1871	12th
William Henry Sinclair	Republican	1871–14 January 1873
M. D. K. Taylor	Democratic	14 January 1873 – 13 January 1874	13th
Guy Morrison Bryan	Democratic	13 January 1874 – 1876	14th
Thomas Reuben Bonner	Democratic	1876–1879	15th
John Hughes Cochran	Democratic	1879–1881	16th
George Robertson Reeves	Democratic	1881–1883	17th
Charles Reese Gibson	Democratic	1883–1885	18th
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster	Democratic	1885–1887	19th
George Cassety Pendleton	Democratic	1887–1889	20th
Frank P. Alexander	Democratic	1889–1891	21st
Robert Teague Milner	Democratic	1891–1893	22nd
John Hughes Cochran	Democratic	1893–1895	23rd
Thomas Slater Smith	Democratic	1895–1897	24th
L. Travis Dashiell	Democratic	1897–1899	25th
James S. Sherrill	Democratic	1899–1901	26th
Robert E. Prince	Democratic	1901–1903	27th
Pat Morris Neff	Democratic	1903–1905	28th
Francis William Seabury	Democratic	1905–1907	29th
Thomas Bell Love	Democratic	1907–1909	30th
Austin Milton Kennedy	Democratic	1909	31st
John Wesley Marshall	Democratic	1909–1911
Sam Rayburn	Democratic	1911–1913	32nd
Chester H. Terrell	Democratic	1913–1915	33rd
John William Woods	Democratic	1915–1917	34th
Franklin Oliver Fuller	Democratic	1917–1919	35th
Robert Ewing Thomason	Democratic	1919–1921	36th
Charles Graham Thomas	Democratic	1921–1923	37th
Richard Ernest Seagler	Democratic	1923–1925	38th
Lee Satterwhite	Democratic	1925–1927	39th
Robert Lee Bobbitt	Democratic	1927–1929	40th
Wingate S. Barron	Democratic	1929–1931	41st
Fred Hawthorne Minor	Democratic	1931–1933	42nd
Coke R. Stevenson	Democratic	1933–1937	43rd
			44th
Robert Wilburn Calvert	Democratic	1937–1939	45th
Robert Emmett Morse	Democratic	1939–1941	46th
Homer Lakerby Leonard	Democratic	1941–1943	47th
Price Daniel	Democratic	1943–1945	48th
Claud H. Gilmer	Democratic	1945–1947	49th
William O. Reed	Democratic	1947–1949	50th
Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr.	Democratic	1949–1951	51st
Reuben E. Senterfitt	Democratic	1951–1955	52nd
			53rd
Jim T. Lindsey	Democratic	1955–1957	54th
Waggoner Carr	Democratic	1957–1961	55th
			56th
Jimmy Turman	Democratic	1961	57th
Byron M. Tunnell	Democratic	1963	58th
Ben F. Barnes	Democratic	1965–1969	59th
			60th
Gus Franklin Mutscher	Democratic	1969–1972	61st
			62nd
Rayford Price	Democratic	1972–1973[4]
Price Daniel, Jr.	Democratic	1973–1975	63rd
Bill W. Clayton	Democratic	1975–1983	64th
			65th
			66th
			67th
Gib Lewis	Democratic	1983–1993	68th
			69th
			70th
			71st
			72nd
Pete Laney	Democratic	1993–2003	73rd
			74th
			75th
			76th
			77th
Tom Craddick	Republican	2003–2009	78th
			79th
			80th
Joe Straus	Republican	2009–present	81st
			82nd
			83rd
			84th

Notes

1. Darnell resigned some time in 1862 to fight in the Civil War, and Buckley was apparently not re-elected until the beginning of the First Called Session on 2 February 1863
2. Two sources, one contemporary, say Burford was a Democrat:
   • Perez, Joan Jenkins. "Burford, Nathaniel Macon". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 2007-01-25. Burford was a Democrat…
   • "Burford, Nat. Macon". Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas. New York: Southern Publishing Co. 1880. pp. 72–3. OCLC 1843096. Retrieved 2007-01-25. In politics he has always been a firm and consistent Democrat of the true Jackson type.
3. Moneyhon, Carl H. "Reconstruction". Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved 2007-01-25. …every office filled by an elected official incapable of taking the Test Oath would be considered vacant on April 25, 1869
4. Price served as Speaker for the 2nd through the 4th Called Sessions

References

• Legislative Reference Library of Texas (2006-05-06). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives, 1846-present". Retrieved 2007-01-11.
• Sorensen, Stephanie S. (2006). "Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives". Retrieved 2007-01-23.