List of speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives
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List of speakers
[edit]Speaker | Party | Start of service | End of service |
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Noble Wimberly Jones | Whig | 1777 | May 2, 1778 |
James Whitefield[1] | Whig | May 2, 1778 | October 30, 1778 |
Noble Wimberly Jones | Whig | October 30, 1778 | November 15, 1778 |
**no quorum** | 1779 | 1779 | |
William Glascock | Whig | 1780 | 1780 |
Nathan Brownson | 1781 | 1781 | |
William Gibbons, Sr. | 1782 | 1782 | |
Samuel Saltus[2] | 1782 | 1782 | |
Joseph Clay | Federalist | 1782 1st Adjournment | 1782 1st Adjournment |
Joseph Habersham[3] | Independent | 1782 2nd Adjournment | 1782 3rd Adjournment |
John Houstoun | Whig | 1783 | 1783
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Noble Wimberly Jones | Whig | 1783 | 1783 1st Session |
William Gibbons, Sr. | 1783 2nd Session | 1783 2nd Session | |
James Habersham, Jr.[3] | 1784 | 1784 | |
Joseph Habersham[3] | Independent | 1785 | 1785 |
William Gibbons, Sr. | 1786 | 1787 | |
Nathan Brownson | 1788 | 1788 2nd Session | |
John Powell[4] | 1789 | 1789 | |
Seaborn Jones[5] | 1789 | 1790 | |
William Gibbons | 1791 | 1793 | |
Thomas Napier[6] | 1794 | 1795 | |
Thomas Stevens[7] | 1796 | 1796 | |
David Meriwether | Democratic-Republican | 1797 | 1801 |
Abraham Jackson[8] | 1802 | 1805 | |
Benjamin Whitaker[9] | 1806 | 1810 | |
Robert Iverson[9] | 1811 | 1811 | |
Benjamin Whitaker[9] | 1812 | 1818 | |
David Adams|[10] | 1819 | 1820 | |
David Witt[11] | 1821 | 1821 | |
David Adams[10] | 1821 | 1821 | |
Allen Daniel Jr.[12] | 1822 | 1822 | |
David Adams[10] | 1823 | 1823 | |
John Abercrombie[13] | 1824 | 1825 | |
Thomas W. Murray | Democratic-Republican | 1825 | 1825 |
Irby Hudson[14] | 1826 | 1828 | |
Warren Jourdan[15] | 1829 | 1829 | |
Asbury Hull | Democratic | 1830 | 1832 |
Thomas Glascock | 1833 | 1834 | |
Joseph Day | Democratic | 1836 | 1839 |
Charles J. Jenkins | Democrat | 1840 | 1840 |
William B. Wofford | 1841 | 1842 | |
Charles J. Jenkins | Whig | 1843 | 1848 |
John W. Anderson | Democrat | 1849 | 1850 |
James Archibald Meriwether | Democrat | 1851 | 1852 |
John Elliott Ward | Democrat | 1853 | 1854 |
William Henry Stiles | Democrat | 1855 | 1856 |
John H.W. Underwood | Democrat | 1857 | 1858 |
Isaiah Tucker Irvin | Democrat | 1859 | 1859 |
Charles J. Williams | Democrat | 1860 | 1860 |
Warren Akin Sr. | Democrat | 1861 | 1863 Extraordinary Session |
Thomas Hardeman, Jr. | Democrat | 1863 | 1866 Extraordinary Session |
Robert McWhorter | Republican | 1868 | 1870 Extraordinary Session |
James Milton Smith | Democrat | 1871 | 1871 |
Joseph B. Cumming | Democrat | 1872 | 1873 Late Adjournment |
Augustus Octavius Bacon | Democrat | 1873 | 1874 |
Thomas Hardeman, Jr. | Democrat | 1875 | 1876 |
Augustus Octavius Bacon | Democrat | 1877 | 1881 Late Adjournment |
Louis F. Garrard | Democrat | 1882 | 1883 Extraordinary Session |
William A. Little[16][17][18] | Democrat | 1884 | 1887 Late Adjournment |
Alexander S. Clay | Democratic | 1888 | 1889 Late Adjournment |
Clark Howell | Democratic | 1890 | 1891 Late Adjournment |
William Yates Atkinson | Democratic | 1892 | 1893 |
William H. Fleming | Democratic | 1894 | 1895 |
Hudson A. Jenkins | Democrat | 1896 | 1897 Late Adjournment |
John D. Little[17][18] | Democrat | 1898 | 1901 |
Newton Morris | Democratic | 1902 | 1904 |
John M. Slaton | Democratic | 1905 | 1908 Extraordinary Session |
John N. Holder | Democratic | 1909 | 1912 Extraordinary Session |
William H. Burwell | Democratic | 1913 | 1917 Extraordinary Session |
John N. Holder | Democratic | 1917 | 1920 |
William Cecil Neill | Democrat | 1921 | 1926 2nd Extraordinary Session |
Richard Russell Jr. | Democratic | 1927 | 1931 Extraordinary Session |
Arlie Daniel Tucker[19] | Democratic | 1931 | 1932 |
Eurith Dickerson Rivers | Democratic | 1933 | 1936 |
Roy V. Harris | Democratic | 1937 | 1940 Extraordinary Session |
Randall Evans, Jr. | Democratic | 1941 Extraordinary Session | 1942 |
Roy V. Harris | Democratic | 1943 | 1946 Extraordinary Session |
Frederick Barrow Hand[20] | Democratic | 1947 | 1954 |
Marvin E. Moate[21] | Democratic | 1955 | 1958 |
George L. Smith | Democratic | 1959 | 1962 Extraordinary Session |
George T. Smith | Democratic | 1963 | 1966 |
George L. Smith | Democratic | 1967 | 1972 |
Thomas B. Murphy | Democratic | 1973 | 2002 |
Terry Coleman | Democratic | 2003 | 2005 |
Glenn Richardson[22] | Republican | 2005 | 2010 (January 1) |
Mark Burkhalter[22] | Republican | 2010 Interim Speaker | 2010 |
David Ralston[22] | Republican | 2010 (January 11) | 2022 |
Jan Jones | Republican | 2022 (November 16) | 2023 |
Jon G. Burns | Republican | 2023 (January 9) |
See also
[edit]- List of minority leaders of the Georgia House of Representatives
- List of minority leaders of the Georgia State Senate
- List of presidents of the Georgia State Senate
- List of Georgia state legislatures
References
[edit]- ^ Georgia; Robert Watkins; George Watkins; Robert Aitken (1800). A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: From Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799. R. Aitken. p. 229.
- ^ Allen Daniel Candler (1908). The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia ... Franklin-Turner Company. p. 397.
- ^ a b c "Habersham Family". New Georgia Encyclopedia (University of Georgia). September 11, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ^ Georgia; Robert Watkins; George Watkins; Robert Aitken (1800). A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: From Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799. R. Aitken. p. 386.
- ^ William J. Northen; John Temple Graves (1910). Men of Mark in Georgia: A Complete and Elaborate History of the State from Its Settlement to the Present Time, Chiefly Told in Biographies and Autobiographies of the Most Eminent Men of Each Period of Georgia's Progress and Development. A. B. Caldwell. p. 241.
- ^ Lucian Lamar Knight (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. Lewis publishing Company. p. 2452.
- ^ Georgia; Robert Watkins; George Watkins; Robert Aitken (1800). A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: From Its First Establishment as a British Province Down to the Year 1798, Inclusive, and the Principal Acts of 1799. R. Aitken. p. 616.
- ^ Georgia; Augustin Smith Clayton; Thomas W. Adams; Duyckinck (1812). A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Political Year 1800, to the Year 1810, Inclusive: Containing All the Laws, Whether in Force Or Not, Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged in a Chronological Order, with Comprehensive References to Those Laws Or Parts of Laws, that are Amended, Suspended Or Repealed : Together with an Appendix, Comprising Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions, as are of a General Operative Nature, and as Relate to the Duty of Officers, the Relief of Individuals, and the Settlement of Boundary Between Counties, and this State with North Carolina : Concluding with a Copious Index to the Whole. Adams & Duyckinck. pp. 68–304.
- ^ a b c Donald A. DeBats (August 1990). "The Journal of Southern History - An Uncertain Arena: The Georgia House of Representatives, 1808-1861". The Journal of Southern History. 56 (3). Southern Historical Association: 423–456. doi:10.2307/2210285. JSTOR 2210285.
- ^ a b c Lucian Lamar Knight (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. Lewis publishing Company. pp. 2536–2537.
- ^ Georgia; William Crosby Dawson (1831). A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829, Inclusive: Comprising All the Laws Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged Under Titles, with Marginal Notes, and Notes of Reference to the Laws, Or Parts of Laws, which are Amended Or Repealed : to which are Added, Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions, as are Either of General, Local, Or Private Nature : Concluding with a Full and Ample Index to the Laws, and a Separate One to the Resolutions. Grantland and Orme. pp. 417–418.
- ^ Harriett Nicholls. "General Allen Daniel: Statesman, Soldier, and Namesake of Fort Daniel" (PDF). TheFortDanielFoundation.org. pp. 62–63. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ Georgia; William Crosby Dawson (1831). A Compilation of the Laws of the State of Georgia, Passed by the Legislature Since the Year 1819 to the Year 1829, Inclusive: Comprising All the Laws Passed Within Those Periods, Arranged Under Titles, with Marginal Notes, and Notes of Reference to the Laws, Or Parts of Laws, which are Amended Or Repealed : to which are Added, Such Concurred and Approved Resolutions, as are Either of General, Local, Or Private Nature : Concluding with a Full and Ample Index to the Laws, and a Separate One to the Resolutions. Grantland and Orme. pp. 319–324.
- ^ Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates (1827). Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Commonwealth of Virginia. pp. 9–18.
- ^ Georgia (1830). Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia November and December 1829. J. Johnston. pp. 1–202.
- ^ "Nominated by the President.; TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES". The New York Times. April 1, 1896. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ^ a b Georgia's Public Men 1902-1904. Byrd Printing Company. 1902. p. 216.
- ^ a b "Men of mark in Georgia : a complete and elaborate history of the state from its settlement to the present time, chiefly told in biographies and autobiographies of the most eminent men of each period of Georgia's progress and development". A. B. Caldwell (Atlanta). 1912. pp. 236–238. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ "Georgia's Official Register - 1955-1956" (PDF). State of Georgia - Department of Archives and History. p. 120. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ Frederick B. Hand, III (1988). "Hand Family and Business Records (c1872-1985) - Manuscript Collection No. 89". Troup County Archives - Troup County Historical Society. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
- ^ "Georgia's Official Register - 1955-1956" (PDF). State of Georgia - Department of Archives and History. p. 319. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- ^ a b c Dave Williams (December 3, 2009). "Ga. House Speaker Richardson resigns". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved November 25, 2018.