Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
The Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Picture | Name | Town | Political party | Term of service |
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David Plant | Stratford | Toleration Republican | 1819, 1820 | |
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Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | Toleration Republican | 1821 |
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Seth P. Beers | Litchfield | Toleration Republican | 1822, 1823 |
Ralph I. Ingersoll | New Haven | Toleration Republican | 1824 | |
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Samuel A. Foot | Cheshire | National Republican | 1825, 1826 |
Ebenezer Young | Killingly | National Republican | 1827, 1828 | |
Elisha Phelps | Simsbury | National Republican | 1829 | |
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Henry W. Edwards | New Haven | Jacksonian | 1830 |
Martin Welles | Wethersfield | National Republican | 1831, 1832 | |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Jacksonian | 1833 | |
Norwich | National Republican | 1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834) | ||
William L. Storrs | Middletown | National Republican | 1834 | |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835) | |
Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Democratic | 1835, 1836 | |
Middletown | Democratic | 1837 | ||
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William W. Boardman | New Haven | Whig | 1838, 1839 |
Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1840, 1841 | |
Middletown | Democratic | 1842 | ||
Noyes Billings | New London | Democratic | 1843 | |
Charles J. McCurdy | Lyme | Whig | 1844 | |
William W. Boardman | NewHaven | Whig | 1845 | |
Monroe | Democratic | 1846 | ||
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Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1847, 1848 |
Plymouth | Free Soil Democratic | 1849 | ||
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Origen S. Seymour | Litchfield | Democratic | 1850 |
Samuel Ingham | Saybrook | Democratic | 1851 | |
Woodbury | Democratic | 1852 | ||
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William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1853 |
Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Whig | 1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854) | |
Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1854 | |
Middletown | American | 1855 | ||
Green Kendrick | Waterbury | Whig | 1856 | |
Hartford | Union | 1857 | ||
Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1858 | |
Oliver H. Perry | Fairfield | Republican | 1859, 1860 | |
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Augustus Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1861 |
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Henry C. Deming | Hartford | Democratic | 1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861) |
Josiah M. Carter | Norwalk | Republican | 1862 | |
Chauncey F. Cleveland | Hampton | Republican | 1863 | |
John S. Rice | Farmington | Union | 1864 | |
Eleazer K. Foster | New Haven | Republican | 1865 | |
David Gallup | Plainfield | Union | 1866 | |
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John T. Wait | Norwich | Union | 1867 |
Charles Ives | East Haven | Republican | 1868 | |
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Orville H. Platt | Meriden | Republican | 1869 |
Lafayette S. Foster | Norwich | Republican | 1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870) | |
Alfred A. Burnham | Windham | Republican | 1870 | |
Killingly | Republican | 1871 | ||
Woodbridge | Republican | 1872 | ||
William W. Eaton | Hartford | Democratic | 1873 | |
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Tilton E. Doolittle | New Haven | Democratic | 1874 |
Derby | Republican | 1875 | ||
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Thomas M. Waller | New London | Democratic | 1876 |
Guilford | Republican | 1877 | ||
Enfield | Republican | 1878 | ||
Dexter R. Wright | New Haven | Republican | 1879 | |
Dwight Marcy | Vernon | Republican | 1880 | |
Granby | Republican | 1881 | ||
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John Manning Hall | Windham | Republican | 1882 |
Derby | Republican | 1883 | ||
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Henry B. Harrison | New Haven | Republican | 1884 |
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William Edgar Simonds | Canton | Republican | 1885 |
New London | Republican | 1886 | ||
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Heusted W. R. Hoyt | Greenwich | Republican | 1887 |
Fairfield | Republican | 1889 | ||
Huntington | Republican | 1891 | ||
Torrington | Republican | 1893 | ||
Samuel Fessenden | Stamford | Republican | 1895 | |
Hartford | Republican | 1897 | ||
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Frank B. Brandegee | New London | Republican | 1899 |
John H. Light | Norwalk | Republican | 1901 | |
Stamford | Republican | 1903 | ||
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Marcus H. Holcomb | Southington | Republican | 1905 |
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John Q. Tilson | New Haven | Republican | 1907 |
Fairfield | Republican | 1909 | ||
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Frederick A. Scott | Plymouth | Republican | 1911 |
Harwinton | Republican | 1913 | ||
Windsor Locks | Republican | 1915 | ||
Greenwich | Republican | 1917 | ||
Stamford | Republican | 1921 | ||
Cornwall | Republican | 1923 | ||
Killingly | Republican | 1925 | ||
John H. Hill | Shelton | Republican | 1927 | |
North Canaan | Republican | 1929 | ||
Suffield | Republican | 1931 | ||
William Hanna | Bethel | Republican | 1933, 1935 | |
Salisbury | Republican | 1937 | ||
Walter Howe | Litchfield | Republican | 1939 | |
Suffield | Republican | 1941 | ||
West Hartford | Republican | 1943 | ||
Old Lyme | Republican | 1945 | ||
Madison | Republican | 1947 | ||
Hamden | Republican | 1949 | ||
New Canaan | Republican | 1951 | ||
Woodbury | Republican | 1953 | ||
Farmington | Republican | 1955 | ||
Groton | Republican | 1957 | ||
Portland | Democratic | 1959 | ||
Simsbury | Republican | 1961 | ||
Old Lyme | Republican | 1963-1965 | ||
Bridgeport | Democratic | 1967 | ||
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William R. Ratchford | Danbury | Democratic | 1969-1973 |
Francis J. Collins | Brookfield Center | Republican | 1973-1975 | |
Hartford | Democratic | 1975-1979 | ||
Stamford | Democratic | 1979-1983 | ||
Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1983-1985 | |
R. E. Van Norstrand | Darien | Republican | 1985-1987 | |
Irving J. Stolberg | New Haven | Democratic | 1987-1989 | |
Richard J. Balducci | Newington | Democratic | 1989-1993 | |
Thomas D. Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 1993-1999 | |
Moira K. Lyons | Stamford | Democratic | 1999-2005 | |
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James A. Amann | Milford | Democratic | 2005-2009 |
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Christopher G. Donovan | Meriden | Democratic | 2009-2013 |
J. Brendan Sharkey | Hamden | Democratic | 2013-2017 | |
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Joe Aresimowicz | Berlin | Democratic | 2017-2021 |
Matthew Ritter | Hartford | Democratic | 2021- |
References[]
- "SOTS: Speakers of the House of Representatives". www.ct.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-13.
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