List of speakers of the Utah House of Representatives explained

Post:	Speaker
Body:	Utah House of Representatives
Insignia:	Seal of Utah.svg
Insigniasize:	110px
Incumbent:	Mike Schultz
Incumbentsince:	November 15, 2023
Status:	Presiding officer
Appointer:	Utah House of Representatives
Seat:	Utah State Capitol, Salt Lake City
Inaugural:	Presley Denny

The following is a list of speakers of the Utah House of Representatives since statehood.

Speakers of the Utah House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
Presley Denny	1896–1897		Beaver County		^[1]
John M. Perkins	1897–1899		Weber County
William Roylance	1899–1901		Democratic	Utah County
William Glasmann	1901–1903		Republican	Weber County
Thomas Hull	1903–1907		Salt Lake County
Harry Joseph	1907–1909		Salt Lake County
Edward Robinson	1909–1913		Cache County
William J. Seely	1913–1915		Republican	Emery County		^[2]
Lewis R. Anderson	1915–1917		Republican	Sanpete County
John F. Tolton	1917–1919		Democratic	Beaver County
Charles C. Richards	1919–1921		Democratic	Salt Lake County
Edward R. Callister	1921–1923		Republican	Salt Lake County
William W. Seegmiller	1923–1925		Republican	Kane County
William E. McKell	1925–1927		Republican	Salt Lake County
Samuel M. Jorgensen	1927–1929		Republican	Sevier County
David Lowe Stine	1929–1931		Republican	Weber County
James C. Hacking	1931–1933		Republican	Uintah County
Isaac A. Smoot	1933–1935		Democratic	Salt Lake County
Walter K. Granger	1935–1937		Democratic	Iron County
Joseph W. Jensen	1937–1939		Democratic	Weber County
Heber Bennion Jr.	1939–1941		Democratic	Daggett County
Sheldon R. Brewster	1941–1943		Democratic	Salt Lake County
William Rulon White	1943–1947		Democratic	Weber County
Rendell Mabey	1947–1949		Republican	Salt Lake County
Ed J. McPolin	1949–1951		Democratic	Summit County
Clifton Kerr	1951–1953		Republican	Box Elder County
Merrill K. Davis	1953–1955		Republican	Salt Lake County
Charles Eric Peterson	1955–1957		Republican	Utah County
Jaren L. Jones	1957–1959		Republican	Salt Lake County
Sheldon R. Brewster	1959–1961		Democratic	Salt Lake County
Ernest H. Dean	1961–1963		Democratic	Utah County
Charles Welch Jr.	1963–1965		Republican	Salt Lake County
Kay C. Allen	1965–1967		Democratic	Salt Lake County
Franklin W. Gunnell	1967–1969		Republican	Cache County
Lorin N. Pace	1969–1971		Republican	Salt Lake County
Richard C. Howe	1971–1973		Democratic	Salt Lake County
Howard C. Nielson	1973–1975		Republican	Utah County
Ronald L. Rencher	1975–1977		Democratic	Weber County
Glade M. Sowards	1977–1979		Republican	Uintah County
James V. Hansen	1979–1981		Republican	Davis County
Norman H. Bangerter	1981–1985		Republican	Salt Lake County
Robert H. Garff	1985–1987		Republican	Davis County
Glen E. Brown	1987–1989		Republican	Summit County
Nolan E. Karras	1989–1991		Republican	Weber County
Craig Moody	1991–1993		Republican	Salt Lake County
Rob Bishop	1992–1994		Republican	Box Elder County
Melvin R. Brown	1994–1998		Republican	Summit County
Martin Stephens	1998–2005		Republican	Salt Lake County		^[3]
Greg Curtis	2005–2009		Republican	Salt Lake County
David Clark	2008–2011		Republican	Washington County
Rebecca D. Lockhart	2011–2015		Republican	Utah County
Greg Hughes	2015–2018		Republican	Salt Lake County
Brad Wilson	2019–2023		Republican	Davis County
Mike Schultz	2023–		Republican	Weber County

Speakers of the Utah Territorial House of Representatives

Speaker	Term	Party	County/Residence	Notes	Citation
William Wines Phelps	1851–1852		Great Salt Lake		^[4]
Jedediah M. Grant	1852–1854		Great Salt Lake
Hosea Stout	1856–1857		Great Salt Lake
John Taylor	1857–1862		Great Salt Lake		^[5]
Orson Pratt	1862–1863		Salt Lake
John Taylor	1863–1868		Great Salt Lake
Orson Pratt	1869–1880		Salt Lake
Francis M. Lyman	1881–1882		Tooele
James Sharp	1884–1886		Salt Lake
William W. Riter	1886–1890		Salt Lake		^[6]
James Sharp	1890–1892		Salt Lake		^[7]
William H. Seegmiller	1892–1894		Sevier
Albion B. Emery	1894–1896		Park City

Notes and References

1. Book: 9781496207852. Brown. Adam R.. 2018. University of Nebraska Press .
2. Book: 9780313302121. Sharp. James Roger. Sharp. Nancy Weatherly. 1999. Bloomsbury Academic .
3. Web site: House Speaker Stephens packs up with a smile. December 29, 2004. Deseret News.
4. Web site: Territory of Utah Legislative Assembly Rosters 1851-1894. Utah State Archives. 2007. December 21, 2023.
5. Web site: Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, of the ... annual session, for the years ... 1868.. HathiTrust.
6. Web site: Journal 1886.. HathiTrust.
7. Web site: House journal of the ... session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Sess. 29 (1890).. HathiTrust.