Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island
The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the presiding officer of the provincial legislature.
The Speakership is currently held by Buck Watts. The Deputy Speaker is Sonny Gallant.
Past speakers have included Wilbur MacDonald, Greg Deighan and Nancy Guptill.
List of Speakers
Speakers of the Colony of the Island of Saint John/Prince Edward Island
- Robert Stewart (1773–1779)
- David Higgins (1779–1780)
- Walter Berry (1780–1784)
- Alexander Fletcher (1785–1787)
- Phillips Callbeck (1788–1789)
- Alexander Fletcher (1790) 2nd time
- Joseph Robinson (1790–1794)
- John Stewart (1795–1801)
- James Curtis (1801–1805)
- Robert Hodgson (1806–1812)
- Ralph Brecken (1812–1813)
- James Curtis (1813–1818) 2nd time
- Angus Macaulay (1818–1825)
- John Stewart (1825–1831) 2nd time
- William McNeill (1831–1835) [1]
- George Dalrymple (1835–1839)
- William Cooper (1839–1843)
- Joseph Pope (1843–1850)
- Alexander Rae (1850–1854)
- John Jardine (1854)
- Edward Thornton (1854–1859)
- Donald Montgomery (1859–1863)
- Thomas Heath Haviland (1863–1867)
- Joseph Wightman (1867–1870)
- John Yeo (1871–1873)
Speakers since Confederation
- Stanislaus F. Perry (Poirier) 1873
- Cornelius Howatt (1874–1876)
- Henry Beer (1877–1878)
- John A. MacDonald (1879–1889)
- Patrick Blake (1890)
- Bernard Donald McLellan (1891–1893)
- James Cummiskey (1894–1900)
- Samuel E. Reid (1901–1904)
- Albert E. Douglas (1905–1908)
- Matthew Smith (1909)
- John Agnew (1909–1911)
- J. Edward Wyatt (1912–1915)
- John S. Martin (1916–1917)
- Albert P. Prowse (1918–1919)
- Gavan Duffy (1920–1923)
- Louis Jenkins (1924–1927)
- David McDonald (1928–1931)
- Walter Fitz-Alan Stewart (1931)
- Augustine A. MacDonald (1932–1934)
- Heath Strong (1934–1935)
- Stephen Hessian (1935–1939)
- Walter Fitz-Alan Stewart (1940–1944) 2nd time
- Thomas R. Cullen (1944–1947)
- Eugene Cullen (1948–1949)
- Forrest Phillips (1949–1955)
- Augustin Gallant (1956–1959)
- Edward Foley (1959)
- John R. McLean (1960–1964)
- Frank Myers (1965–1966)
- Prosper Arsenault (1966–1970)
- Cecil A. Miller (1970–1978)
- Russell Perry (1978)
- Daniel Compton (1979–1983)
- Marion Reid (1983–1986)
- Edward Clark (1986–1993)
- Nancy Guptill (1993–1996)
- Wilbur MacDonald (1997–2000)
- Mildred A. Dover (2000–2003)
- Gregory J. Deighan (2003–2007)
- Kathleen M. Casey (2007–2011)
- Carolyn Bertram (2011–2015)
- Buck Watts (2015–present)
See also
References
- ↑ "Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island" (PDF). gov.pe.ca/. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
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