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List of speakers of the Georgia House of Representatives

List of speakers

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Speaker Party Start of service End of service
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
  • retired after "several days"
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)

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Allen Daniel Candler (1908). The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia ... Franklin-Turner Company. p. 397.
  3. ^ a b c "Habersham Family". New Georgia Encyclopedia (University of Georgia). September 11, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Lucian Lamar Knight (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. Lewis publishing Company. p. 2452.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ a b c Lucian Lamar Knight (1917). A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians. Lewis publishing Company. pp. 2536–2537.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ Harriett Nicholls. "General Allen Daniel: Statesman, Soldier, and Namesake of Fort Daniel" (PDF). TheFortDanielFoundation.org. pp. 62–63. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates (1827). Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Commonwealth of Virginia. pp. 9–18.
  15. ^ Georgia (1830). Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia November and December 1829. J. Johnston. pp. 1–202.
  16. ^ "Nominated by the President.; TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES". The New York Times. April 1, 1896. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  17. ^ a b Georgia's Public Men 1902-1904. Byrd Printing Company. 1902. p. 216.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "Georgia's Official Register - 1955-1956" (PDF). State of Georgia - Department of Archives and History. p. 120. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ "Georgia's Official Register - 1955-1956" (PDF). State of Georgia - Department of Archives and History. p. 319. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
  22. ^ a b c Dave Williams (December 3, 2009). "Ga. House Speaker Richardson resigns". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
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