List of speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives information
The speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the lower chamber of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The speaker is elected by other members of the House for a two-year term. The current Speaker is Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville). Sexton was elected and took over from Acting-Speaker Bill Dunn, who assumed office upon the resignation of Glen Casada, effective August 2, 2019.[1]
Speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives[2]
Name
Term
Party
Life
Notes
David Wilson
1794–1795
c. 1752–1803
Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives
Joseph Hardin
1795–1796
1734–1801
Speaker of the Southwest Territory House of Representatives
James Stuart
1796–1799
c. 1751–1816
William Dickson
1799–1803
Democratic-Republican
1770–1816
James Stuart
1803–1805
c. 1751–1816
Robert Coleman Foster
1805–1807
1769–1844
John Tipton
1807–1809
1767-1831
Joseph Dickson
1809–1811
Federalist
1745–1825
Thomas Henderson [3]
1811-1812
Democratic-Republican
1742-c.1827/32
John Cocke
1812–1813
Democratic-Republican
1772–1854
Thomas Claiborne
1813–1815
Democratic
1780–1856
James Fentress
1815–1817
Democratic
1763–1843
Thomas Williamson
1817–1819
1767–1825
James Fentress
1819–1825
Democratic
1763–1843
William Brady
1825–1827
d. 1835
John H. Camp
1827–1829
1783–1829
Ephraim H. Foster
1829–1831
1794–1854
Frederick W. Huling
1831–1835
Democratic
Ephraim H. Foster
1835–1837
Whig
1794–1854
John Cocke
1837–1839
Whig
1772–1854
Jonas E. Thomas
1839–1841
Democratic
1803–1856
Burchet Douglass
1841–1842
Whig
1793–1849
Franklin Buchanan
1842–1843
Whig
c. 1813–1851
Daniel L. Barringer
1843–1845
Whig
1788–1852
Brookins Campbell
1845–1847
Democratic
1808–1853
Franklin Buchanan
1847–1849
Whig
c. 1813–1851
Landon Carter Haynes
1849–1851
Democratic
1816–1875
Jordan Stokes
1851–1853
Whig
1817–1886
William H. Wisener
1853–1855
Whig
1812–1882
Neill S. Brown
1855–1857
Whig
1818–1878
Daniel S. Donelson
1857–1859
Democratic
1801–1863
Washington C. Whitthorne
1859–1861
Democratic
1825–1891
Edwin A. Keeble
1861–1862
Democratic
1807–1868
The state government was replaced by a military government in 1862
William Heiskell
1865–1867
Conservative Republican
1788–1871
Confusion over apparent resignation in July 1866 for refusing to sign the 14th Amendment
F.S. Richardson
1867–1869
Radical Republican
William O'Neal Perkins
1869–1871
Conservative Republican
1815–1895
James D. Richardson
1871–1873
Democratic
1843–1914
New state constitution adopted in 1870
William S. McGaughey
1873–1875
Democratic
1821–1889
Lewis Bond
1875–1877
Democratic
1839–1878
Edwin T. Taliaferro
1877–1879
Democratic
1849–1919
Henry P. Fowlkes
1879–1881
Democratic
1843–1817
Henry B. Ramsey
1881–1883
Republican
1847–1897
Washington L. Ledgerwood
1883–1885
Democratic
1843–1911
James A. Manson
1885–1887
Democratic
1842–1901
Walter L. Clapp
1887–1891
Democratic
1850–1901
Thomas R. Myers
1891–1893
Democratic
1840–1919
Ralph Davis
1893
Democratic
1866–1952
Julius A. Trousdale
1893–1895
Democratic
1840–1899
John A. Tipton
1895–1897
Democratic
1858–1925
Morgan C. Fitzpatrick
1897–1899
Democratic
1868–1908
Joseph W. Byrns
1899–1901
Democratic
1869–1936
Edgar B. Wilson
1901–1903
Democratic
1874–1953
Lawrence Tyson
1903–1905
Democratic
1861–1929
William K. Abernathy
1905–1907
Democratic
1870–1940
John T. Cunningham
1907–1909
Democratic
1877–1945
Matthew H. Taylor
1909–1911
Democratic
1884–1965
Albert M. Leach
1911–1913
Democratic
1859–1926
William M. Stanton
1913–1915
Democratic
1890–1957
William P. Cooper
1915–1917
Democratic
1870–1961
Clyde Shropshire
1917–1919
Democratic
1866–1949
Seth M. Walker
1919–1921
Democratic
1892–1951
Andrew L. Todd Sr.
1921–1923
Democratic
1872–1945
Frank S. Hall
1923–1925
Democratic
1890–1958
William F. Barry
1925–1927
Democratic
1900–1967
Selden Maiden
1927–1929
Democratic
1883–1949
Charles H. Love
1929–1931
Democratic
1874–1950
Walter M. Haynes
1931–1933
Democratic
1897–1967
Frank W. Moore
1933–1935
Democratic
1905–1982
Walter M. Haynes
1935–1939
Democratic
1897–1967
John Ed O'Dell
1939–1943
Democratic
1906–1956
James J. Broome
1943–1945
Democratic
1884–1952
George Woods
1945–1947
Democratic
1913–1982
William Buford Lewallen
1947–1949
Democratic
1920–2003
McAllen Foutch
1949–1953
Democratic
1909–1996
James L. Bomar Jr.
1953–1963
Democratic
1914–2001
Dick Barry
1963–1967
Democratic
1926–2013
James H. Cummings
1967–1969
Democratic
1890–1979
Bill Jenkins
1969–1971
Republican
1936–
James R. McKinney
1971–1973
Democratic
1931–1992
Ned McWherter
1973–1987
Democratic
1930–2011
Ed Murray
1987–1991
Democratic
1928–2009
Jimmy Naifeh
1991–2009
Democratic
1939–
Kent Williams
2009–2011
Republican
1949–
Beth Harwell
2011–2019
Republican
1957–
First woman to serve as Speaker of the House
Glen Casada
2019
Republican
1959–
Resigned
Cameron Sexton
2019–present
Republican
1970–
Elected Speaker on August 23, 2019
^"After 3 months of scandal, Glen Casada is no longer speaker of the Tennessee House". The Tennessean.
^"Historical Constitutional Officers Of Tennessee 1796 - Present Territory South Of The River Ohio 1790 - 1796" (PDF). tn.gov. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
^Cressy-Kent, Rachel (June 15, 2020). Senator Thomas Henderson: A Man Who Helped Make America Great (1742-C. 1827/32). ISBN 9798654105332.
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