List of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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This is a list of Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
House of Deputies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Speaker | Party | Years ↑ | Town | Electoral history |
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William Hathorne | 1644 – 1645 | Salem | ||
George Cooke | 1645 | Cambridge | ||
William Hathorne | 1646 | Salem | ||
Robert Bridges | 1646 | Lynn | ||
Joseph Hills | 1647 | Mistick Side | ||
William Hathorne | 1648 | Salem | ||
Richard Russell | 1648 | Charlestown | ||
Daniel Denison | 1649 | Ipswich | ||
William Hathorne | 1650 | Salem | ||
Daniel Gookin | 1651 | Cambridge | ||
Daniel Denison | 1651 – 1652 | Ipswich | ||
Humphrey Atherton | 1653 | Springfield | ||
Richard Russell | 1654 | Charlestown | ||
Edward Johnson | 1655 | |||
Richard Russell | 1656 | Charlestown | ||
William Hathorne | 1657 | Salem | ||
Richard Russell | 1658 | Charlestown | ||
Thomas Savage | 1659 – 1660 | |||
William Hathorne | 1660 – 1661 | Salem | ||
Thomas Clarke | 1662 | |||
John Leverett | 1663 – 1664 | Boston | ||
Thomas Clarke | 1665 | |||
Richard Waldron | 1666 – 1668 | Cocheco | ||
Thomas Clarke | 1669 – 1670 | |||
Thomas Savage | 1671 | Boston | ||
Thomas Clarke | 1672 | |||
Richard Waldron | 1673 | Cocheco | ||
Joshua Hubbard | 1673 – 1674 | |||
Richard Waldron | 1674 – 1675 | Cocheco | ||
Peter Buckley | 1675 – 1676 | Concord | ||
Thomas Savage | 1677 – 1678 | Boston | ||
Richard Waldron | 1679 | Cocheco | Town became part of New Hampshire | |
John Richards | 1679 – 1680 | Dorchester | ||
Daniel Fisher | 1680 – 1682 | Dedham | ||
Elisha Cooke | 1683 | Boston | ||
John Waite | 1684 | Malden | ||
Isaac Addington | 1685 | Boston | ||
John Saffin | 1686 | Boston | General Court adjourned May 21, 1686, did not convene until May or June 1689 |
Inter-Charter Period
Speaker | Party | Years ↑ | Town | Electoral history |
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Thomas Oakes | 1689 | Boston | ||
John Bowles | 1698 – 1690 | Boston | ||
Penn Townsend | 1690 – 1691 | Salem | ||
William Bond | 1691 – 1692 | Watertown | ||
Penn Townsend | 1692 | Salem |
Second Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay
Speaker | Party | Years ↑ | Town | Electoral history |
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William Bond | 1692 – 1693 | Watertown | ||
Nathaniel Byfield | 1693 – 1694 | Boston | ||
Nehemiah Jewett | 1694 – 1695 | Rowley | ||
William Bond | 1695 – 1696 | Watertown | ||
Penn Townsend | 1696 – 1697 | Salem | ||
Nehemiah Byfield | 1698 | Rowley | ||
James Converse | 1699 – 1700 | Woburn | ||
John Leverett | 1700 – 1701 | Boston | ||
Nehemiah Jewett | 1701 – 1702 | Rowley | ||
James Converse | 1702 – 1705 | Woburn | ||
Thomas Oakes | 1705 – 1707 | Boston | ||
John Burrill | 1707 | Lynn | ||
Thomas Oliver | 1708 – 1709 | Cambridge | ||
John Clark | 1709 – 1711 | Boston | ||
John Burrill | 1711 – 1720 | Lynn | ||
Elisha Cooke | 1720 | |||
Timothy Lindall | 1720 – 1721 | Boston | ||
John Clark | 1721 – 1724 | Boston | ||
William Dudley | 1724 – 1729 | Roxbury | ||
John Quincy | 1729 – 1741 | Mount Wollaston | ||
William Fairfield | 1741 | Wenham | ||
Thomas Cushing II | 1742 – 1746 | Boston | ||
Thomas Hutchinson | 1746 – 1748 | Boston | Resigned when appointed to the Governor's Council | |
Joseph Dwight | 1748 – 1750 | Brookfield | ||
Thomas Hubbard | 1750 – 1759 | Waltham | ||
Samuel White | May 30, 1759 – May 28, 1760 |
Taunton | ||
James Otis | May 28, 1760 – May 26, 1762 |
Barnstable | Resigned when appointed to the Governor's Council | |
Timothy Ruggles | May 26, 1762 – May 25, 1764 |
Rochester | ||
Samuel White | May 25, 1764 – June 11, 1764 |
Taunton | ||
Thomas Clap pro tem | June 11, 1764 – May 29, 1765 |
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Samuel White | May 29, 1764 – May 28, 1766 |
Taunton | ||
James Otis, Jr. | May 28, 1766 – May 28, 1766 |
Barnstable | ||
Thomas Cushing | May 28, 1766 – 1774 |
Boston | ||
James Warren | 1775 – 1778 | Plymouth | ||
John Pickering | 1778 – 1779 | Boston | ||
John Hancock | 1779 – 1780 | Quincy | Elected Governor of Massachusetts |
House of Representatives under the Massachusetts Constitution
Speaker | Party | Years ↑ | City or Town (District)1 | Electoral history |
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Caleb Davis | None | 1780 – 1782 | Boston | Resigned |
Nathaniel Gorham | None | 1782 – 1783 | Charlestown | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Tristram Dalton | None | 1783 – 1784 | Newbury | Elected to State Senate |
Samuel Allyne Otis | None | 1784 – 1785 | Barnstable | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Nathaniel Gorham | None | 1785 – 1786 | Charlestown | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Artemas Ward | None | 1786 – 1787 | Shrewsbury | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
James Warren | None | 1787 – 1788 | Plymouth | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Theodore Sedgwick | Pro-Administration | 1788 – 1789 | Sheffield | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
David Cobb | Pro-Administration | 1789 – 1793 | Taunton | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Edward Robbins | Democratic-Republican | 1793 – 1802 | Boston | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
John Coffin Jones | Federalist | 1802 – 1803 | Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Harrison Gray Otis | Federalist | 1803 – 1805 | Boston | Elected to the State Senate |
Timothy Bigelow | Federalist | 1805 – 1806 | Worcester | Party lost majority |
Perez Morton | Democratic-Republican | 1806 – 1808 | Dorchester | Party lost majority |
Timothy Bigelow | Federalist | 1808 – 1810 | Worcester | Party lost majority |
Perez Morton | Democratic-Republican | 1810 – 1811 | Dorchester | Resigned |
Joseph Story | Democratic-Republican | 1811 – 1812 | Salem | Resigned when appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
Eleazer Ripley | Democratic-Republican | 1812 | Waterville | Joined United States Army |
Timothy Bigelow | Federalist | 1812 – 1820 | Worcester | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Elijah H. Mills | Federalist | 1820 – 1821 | Northampton | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Josiah Quincy III | Federalist | 1821 – 1822 | Boston | Resigned to become Judge of Boston Municipal Court |
Luther Lawrence | Federalist | 1822 | Lowell | Party lost majority |
Levi Lincoln, Jr. | National Republican | 1822 – 1823 | Worcester | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
William C. Jarvis | National Republican | 1823 – 1825 | Woburn | Party lost majority |
Timothy Fuller | Democratic-Republican | 1825 – 1826 | Cambridgeport | Party lost majority |
William C. Jarvis | National Republican | 1826 – 1828 | Woburn | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
William B. Calhoun | National Republican | 1828 – 1834 | Springfield | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Julius Rockwell | Whig | 1835 – 1837 | Pittsfield | Resigned when appointed commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts |
Robert Charles Winthrop | Whig | 1838 – 1840 | Boston | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
George Ashmun | Whig | 1841 | Blandford | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Thomas H. Kinnicutt | Whig | 1842 | Worcester | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Daniel P. King | Whig | 1843 | South Danvers | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Thomas H. Kinnicutt | Whig | 1844 | Worcester | Resigned |
Samuel H. Walley, Jr. | Whig | 1844 – 1846 | Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Ebenezer Bradbury | Whig | 1847 | Newburyport | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Francis Crowninshield | Whig | 1848 – 1849 | Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Ensign H. Kellogg | Whig | 1850 | Pittsfield | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Nathaniel Prentice Banks | Democratic/Free Soil Coalition | 1851 – 1852 | Waltham | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
George Bliss | Whig | 1853 | Springfield | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Otis P. Lord | Whig | 1854 | Salem | Party lost majority |
Daniel C. Eddy | Know Nothing | 1855 | Lowell | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Charles A. Phelps | Know Nothing | 1856 – 1857 | Boston | Elected to the Massachusetts Senate;[1] Party Lost election |
Julius Rockwell | Republican | 1858 | Pittsfield | Resigned when appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court |
Charles Hale | Republican | 1859 | Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John A. Goodwin | Republican | 1860 – 1861 | Lowell | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Alexander Hamilton Bullock | Republican | 1862 – 1865 | Worcester | Elected Governor of Massachusetts |
James M. Stone | Republican | 1866 – 1867 | Charlestown | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Harvey Jewell | Republican | 1868 – 1871 | Boston | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John E. Sanford | Republican | 1872 – 1875 | Taunton | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John Davis Long | Republican | 1876 – 1878 | Hingham | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
Levi C. Wade | Republican | 1879 | Newton | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
Charles J. Noyes | Republican | 1880 – 1882 | Boston (14th Suffolk) | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
George Augustus Marden | Republican | 1883 – 1884 | Lowell | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John Q. A. Brackett | Republican | January 7, 1885 – 1886 |
Boston (17th Suffolk)[2] | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
Charles J. Noyes | Republican | 1887 – 1888 | Boston (14th Suffolk) | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
William Emerson Barrett | Republican | 1889 – 1893 | Melrose (11th Middlesex) | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
George von Lengerke Meyer | Republican | 1894 – 1896 | Boston (9th Suffolk) | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John Lewis Bates | Republican | 1897 – 1899 | Boston (1st Suffolk) | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
James J. Myers | Republican | 1900 – 1903 | Cambridge (1st Middlesex) | Retired |
Louis A. Frothingham | Republican | 1904 – 1905 | Boston (11th Suffolk) | Left House to run for governor |
John N. Cole | Republican | 1906 – 1908 | Andover (8th Essex) | Left House to run for Lieutenant Governor |
Joseph H. Walker | Republican | 1909 – 1911 | Brookline (2nd Norfolk) | Left House to run for governor |
Grafton D. Cushing | Republican | 1912 – 1914 | Boston (11th Suffolk) | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
Channing H. Cox | Republican | 1915 – 1918 | Boston (10th Suffolk) | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
Joseph E. Warner | Republican | 1919 – 1920 | Taunton (4th Bristol) | Lost primary for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts to Alvan Fuller |
Benjamin Loring Young | Republican | 1921 – 1924 | Weston (13th Middlesex) | [Data unknown/missing. You can help!] |
John C. Hull | Republican | 1925 – 1929 | Leominster (11th Worcester) | Retired |
Leverett Saltonstall | Republican | 1929 – 1936 | Chestnut Hill (5th Middlesex) | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Horace T. Cahill | Republican | 1937 – 1938 | Braintree (6th Norfolk) | Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts |
Christian Herter | Republican | 1939 – 1942 | Boston (5th Suffolk) | Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives |
Rudolph King | Republican | 1943 – 1944 | Millis (8th Norfolk) | Resigned to run become Registrar of Motor Vehicles |
Frederick Willis | Republican | 1945 – 1948 | Saugus (10th Essex) | Party lost majority |
Thomas P. O'Neill | Democratic | 1949 – 1952 | Cambridge (3rd Middlesex) | Party lost majority; O'Neill elected to U.S. House of Representatives |
Charles Gibbons | Republican | 1953 – 1954 | Stoneham (22nd Middlesex) | Party lost majority |
Michael F. Skerry | Democratic | 1955 – 1957 | Medford (27th Middlesex) | Resigned when appointed Clerk of the Malden District Court |
John F. Thompson | Democratic | 1958 – 1964 | Ludlow (2nd Hampden) | Resigned after being indicted on charges of conspiracy and bribery |
John Davoren | Democratic | 1965 – 1967 | Milford (9th Worcester) | Resigned when appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth |
Robert H. Quinn | Democratic | 1967 – 1969 | Boston (9th Suffolk) | Elected Massachusetts Attorney General |
David M. Bartley | Democratic | 1969 – 1975 | Holyoke (7th Hampden) | Resigned to become President of Holyoke Community College |
Thomas W. McGee | Democratic | 1975 – 1984 | Lynn (20th Essex) | Defeated by Keverian in leadership challenge |
George Keverian | Democratic | 1985 – 1990 | Everett (39th Middlesex) | Retired to run for State Treasurer |
Charles Flaherty | Democratic | 1991 – April 9, 1996 |
Cambridge (27th Middlesex) | Resigned: pleaded guilty to tax evasion |
Thomas Finneran | Democratic | April 9, 1996 – September 28, 2004 |
Mattapan (12th Suffolk) | Resigned due to allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice |
Salvatore DiMasi | Democratic | September 28, 2004 – January 27, 2009 |
Boston (3rd Suffolk) | Resigned: convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and extortion |
Robert DeLeo | Democratic | January 27, 2009 – Present |
Winthrop (19th Suffolk) | Current Speaker |
Notes
- 1.^ Prior to 1857, representatives were selected by a majority of votes at a town meeting. Since 1857, representatives have been elected by district.[3]
Sources
- "Organization of the Legislature Since 1780". Manual for the General Court. Massachusetts General Court. 2005 – 06. pp. 338–350. Check date values in:
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References
- ↑ Castle, William Richards (December 1902), The Harvard Graduates' Magazine Vol XI No. 42, Boston, Massachusetts: The Harvard Graduates' Magazine Association, p. 305.
- ↑ Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1890). "History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol. 1". Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO.: lviii.
- ↑ Duane Hamilton Hurd, ed. (1888). History of Essex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1. J. W. Lewis & Company. p. 414. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
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