List of speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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The speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives holds the oldest statewide elected office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1] Since its first session under the Frame of Government in 1682, presided over by William Penn, over 130 House members have been elevated to the speaker's chair. The house cannot hold an official session in the absence of the speaker or his designated speaker pro tempore.
Speaker K. Leroy Irvis was the first African-American elected speaker of any state legislature in the United States since the Reconstruction era. Pennsylvania has never had a female speaker.
List of speakers of the Provincial Assembly[]
Speakers of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly (1682–1775) and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (following the 1776 Constitution).
| Name | Date elected |
|---|---|
| unknown (probably Wynne or More, below) | 1682 |
| Thomas Wynne | 1682/1683 |
| Nicholas More | 1684 |
| 1685/88 | |
| 1689 | |
| 1690/91 | |
| unknown | 1691 |
| 1692 | |
| 1693 | |
| David Lloyd | 1694 |
| Edward Shippen | 1695 |
| 1696 | |
| 1697 | |
| 1698 | |
| 1699 | |
| 1700 | |
| David Lloyd | 1703 |
| 1705 | |
| David Lloyd | 1706 |
| Richard Hill | 1710 |
| Isaac Norris | 1712 |
| 1713 | |
| David Lloyd | 1714 |
| 1715 | |
| Richard Hill | 1716 |
| William Trent | 1717 |
| Jonathan Dickinson | 1718 |
| William Trent | 1719 |
| Isaac Norris | 1720 |
| Jeremiah Langhorne | 1721 |
| 1722 | |
| David Lloyd | 1723 |
| 1724 | |
| David Lloyd | 1725 |
| Andrew Hamilton | 1729 |
| Jeremiah Langhorne | 1733 |
| Andrew Hamilton | 1734 |
| 1739 | |
| John Wright | 1745 |
| 1745/1746 | |
| Isaac Norris (II) | 1750 |
| 1758 | |
| Isaac Norris (II) | 1758 |
| 1759 | |
| Isaac Norris (II) | 1759 |
| Benjamin Franklin | 1764 |
| Isaac Norris (II) | 1764 |
| 1764 | |
| Joseph Galloway | 1766 |
| 1769 | |
| Joseph Galloway | 1769 |
| Edward Biddle | 1774 |
| John Morton | 1775 |
| (under the 1776 Constitution) | 1776 |
| John Bayard | 1777 |
| Frederick Muhlenberg | 1780 |
| George Gray | 1783 |
| John Bayard | 1784 |
| Thomas Mifflin | 1785 |
| Gerardus Wynkoop II[2] | 1786 (four days)[3] |
| Richard Peters | 1788 |
| William Bingham (under the 1790 constitution) | 1790 |
List of speakers of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives[]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Pennsylvania House of Representatives web site Archived 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Philadelphia, December 27". Freeman's Journal. 1786-12-27. p. 2.
- ^ Hiltzheimer, Jacob; Parsons, Jacob Cox (1893). Extracts from the diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer: of Philadelphia. 1765-1798. Press of W. F. Fell & co.
- ^ "Samuel D. Patterson". legis.state.pa.us. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
- Schmedlen, Jeanne Hearn (1998). Wisdom, Vision and Diplomacy: Speakers of the Pennsylvania House (A Biographical History of the Speakers of the Provincial Assembly and the House of Representatives, 1682-1998). Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania House of Representatives. ISBN 978-0-9667794-0-0. OCLC 40553654.
- "Speakers of the Provincial Assembly (1682-1790)" (PDF). The Pennsylvania Manual, Volume 117 (2005-2006 General Assembly). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of Publications. Retrieved 2007-03-01.
- "Speakers of the House of Representatives since 1791" (PDF). The Pennsylvania Manual, Volume 117 (2005-2006 General Assembly). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bureau of Publications. Retrieved 2007-03-01.
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