List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives explained

Post:	Speaker
Body:	the Alaska House of Representatives
Insignia:	Seal of the State of Alaska.svg
Insigniacaption:	Alaskan state seal
Incumbentsince:	January 18, 2023
First:	Earnest B. Collins
Formation:	1913

This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).

Speakers

Territorial House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	Division	Term	Legislatures
1	Earnest B. Collins			Republican	Fox	4th	1913 – 1917	First, Second
2	Luther C. Hess			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1917 – 1919	Third
3	E. J. White			Democratic	Juneau	1st	1919 – 1921	Fourth
4	Andrew Nerland			Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1921 – 1923	Fifth
5	Cash Cole			Republican	Juneau	1st	1923 – 1925	Sixth
6	C. H. Wilcox			Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1925 – 1927	Seventh
7	Sumner S. Smith			Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1927 – 1929	Eighth
8	R. C. Rothenburg			Independent Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1929 – 1931	Ninth
9	Grover C. Winn			Republican	Juneau	1st	1931 – 1933	Tenth
10	Joe McDonald			Democratic	Ester Creek	4th	1933 – 1935	Eleventh
11	Joseph S. Hofman			Democratic	Seward	3rd	1935 – 1937	Twelfth
12	Joe Green			Democratic	Hyder	1st	1937 – 1939	Thirteenth
13	Howard Lyng			Democratic	Nome	2nd	1939 – 1941	Fourteenth
14	Herbert H. McCutcheon			Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1941 – 1943	Fifteenth
15	James V. Davis			Democratic	Juneau	1st	1943 – 1945	Sixteenth
16	Jesse D. Lander			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1945 – 1947	Seventeenth
17	Oscar S. Gill			Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1947 – 1949	Eighteenth
18	Stanley McCutcheon			Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1949 – 1951	Nineteenth
19	William A. Egan			Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1951 – 1953	Twentieth
20	George Miscovich			Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1953 – 1955	Twenty-First
21	Wendell P. Kay			Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1955 – 1957	Twenty-Second
22	Richard J. Greuel			Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1957 – 1959	Twenty-Third

State House

No.	Name	Image	Party	Hometown	District	Term	Legislatures
1	Warren A. Taylor			Democratic	Fairbanks	19	1959 – 1963	First, Second
2	Bruce Kendall			Republican	Anchorage	8	1963 – 1965	Third
3	Mike Gravel			Democratic	Anchorage	8	1965 – 1967	Fourth
4	William K. Boardman			Republican	Ketchikan	1	1967 – 1969	Fifth
5	Jalmar M. Kerttula			Democratic	Palmer	7	1969 – 1971	Sixth
6	Gene Guess			Democratic	Anchorage	8	1971 – 1973	Seventh
7	Tom Fink			Republican	Anchorage	8	1973 – 1975	Eighth
8	Mike Bradner			Democratic	Fairbanks	20	1975 – 1977	Ninth
9	Hugh Malone			Democratic	Kenai	13	1977 – 1979	Tenth
10	Terry Gardiner			Democratic	Ketchikan	1	1979 – 1981	Eleventh
11	Jim Duncan			Democratic	Juneau	4	1981 – 1981	Twelfth
12	Joseph L. Hayes			Republican	Anchorage	12, 9	1981 – 1985	Twelfth, Thirteenth
13	Ben F. Grussendorf			Democratic	Sitka	3	1985 – 1989	Fourteenth, Fifteenth
14	Samuel R. Cotten			Democratic	Eagle River	15	1989 – 1991	Sixteenth
15	Ben F. Grussendorf			Democratic	Sitka	3	1991 – 1993	Seventeenth
16	Ramona L. Barnes			Republican	Anchorage	22	1993 – 1995	Eighteenth
17	Gail Phillips			Republican	Homer	7	1995 – 1999	Nineteenth, Twentieth
18	Brian Porter			Republican	Anchorage	20	1999 – 2003	Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
19	Pete Kott			Republican	Eagle River	17	2003 – 2005	Twenty-Third
20	John Harris			Republican	Valdez	12	2005 – 2009	Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth
21	Mike Chenault			Republican	Nikiski	34	2009 – 2017	Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth
22	Bryce Edgmon			Democratic	Dillingham	37	2017 – 2021	Thirtieth, Thirty-first
				Independent
23	Louise Stutes			Republican	Kodiak	32	2021 – 2023	Thirty-second
23	Cathy Tilton			Republican	Wasilla	26	2023 – present	Thirty-third

See also

• List of Alaska state legislatures

External links

• Book: Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2013. 2013. Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. Juneau. Centennial. — contains photos of most speakers