Post: | Speaker |
Body: | New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Insignia: | Seal of New Hampshire.svg |
Insigniasize: | 110px |
Incumbent: | Sherman Packard |
Incumbentsince: | January 6, 2021 |
Status: | Presiding officer |
Appointer: | New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Seat: | New Hampshire State House, Concord |
Inaugural: | Richard Waldron Jr. |
The following is a list of speakers of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from colonial period and since statehood in 1788.
Speaker | Term | Party | Residence | Notes | |
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Richard Waldron Jr. | 1684–1692 | Portsmouth | |||
Richard Martin | 1692 | Portsmouth | |||
John Gilman | 1692–1693 | Exeter | |||
John Pickering | 1693–1695 | Portsmouth | |||
George Jaffrey | 1695–1696 | Portsmouth | |||
John Plaisted | 1696–1697 | Portsmouth | |||
John Pickering | 1697–1698 | Portsmouth | |||
Henry Dow | 1698 | Hampton | |||
John Pickering | 1698–1699 | Portsmouth | |||
Samuel Penhallow | 1699–1702 | Portsmouth | |||
John Pickering | 1702 | Portsmouth | |||
Daniel Tilton | 1702–1703 | Hampton | |||
John Pickering | 1703–1709 | Portsmouth | |||
Mark Hunking | 1709–1710 | Portsmouth | |||
Richard Garrish | 1710–1717 | Portsmouth | |||
John Plaisted | 1717 | Portsmouth | |||
Thomas Packer | 1717–1719 | Portsmouth | |||
Joshua Pierce | 1719–1722 | Portsmouth | |||
Peter Weare | 1722–1727 | Hampton Falls | |||
Nathaniel Weare | 1727–1728 | Hampton Falls | |||
Andrew Wiggin | 1728–1745 | Stratham | |||
Nathaniel Rogers | 1745 | Portsmouth | |||
Ebenezer Stevens | 1745–1749 | Kingston | |||
Richard Waldron | 1749–1752 | Hampton | |||
Meshech Weare | 1752–1755 | Hampton Falls | |||
Peter Sherburne | 1755–1765 | Portsmouth | |||
Peter Gilman | 1765–1771 | Exeter | |||
John Wentworth | 1771–1776 | Somersworth | |||
Phillips White | 1776 | South Hampton | |||
John Langdon | 1776–1782 | Portsmouth | |||
John Dudley | 1782–1784 | Raymond | |||
George Atkinson | 1784–1785 | Portsmouth | |||
John Sullivan | 1785–1786 | Durham | |||
John Langdon | 1786–1787 | Portsmouth | |||
John Sparhawk | 1787 | Portsmouth |
Speaker | Term | Party | Residence | Notes | |
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Thomas Bartlett | 1787–1791 | Nottingham | |||
William Plumer | 1791–1793 | Epping | |||
Nathaniel Peabody | 1793–1794 | Atkinson | |||
John Prentice | 1794–1795 | Langdon | |||
Russell Freeman | 1795–1797 | Hanover | |||
William Plumer | 1797–1798 | Epping | |||
John Prentice | 1798–1805 | Langdon | |||
Samuel Bell | 1805–1807 | Chester | |||
Charles Cutts | 1807–1809 | Portsmouth | |||
George B. Upham | 1809–1810 | Claremont | |||
Charles Cutts | 1810–1811 | Portsmouth | |||
Clement Storer | 1811–1813 | Portsmouth | |||
Thomas W. Thompson | 1813–1815 | Concord | |||
George B. Upham | 1815–1816 | Claremont | |||
David L. Morrill | 1816–1817 | Concord | |||
Henry B. Chase | 1817–1818 | Warner | |||
Matthew Harvey | 1818–1821 | Hopkinton | |||
Ichabod Bartlett | 1821–1822 | Dover | |||
Charles Woodman | 1822–1823 | Bridgwater | |||
Andrew Pierce | 1823 | Democratic | Dover | ||
Edmund Parker | 1823–1825 | Democratic | Nashua | ||
Levi Woodbury | 1825 | Democratic | Portsmouth | ||
Henry Hubbard | 1825–1828 | Democratic | Charlestown | ||
James Wilson Jr. | 1828–1829 | Democratic | Keene | ||
James B. Thornton | 1827–1829 | Democratic | Merrimack | ||
Samuel Webster | 1829–1831 | Democratic | Kingston | ||
Franklin Pierce | 1831–1833 | Democratic | Hillsborough | ||
Charles G. Atherton | 1835–1837 | Democratic | Nashua | ||
Ira A. Eastman | 1837–1839 | Democratic | Gilmanton | ||
Moses Norris Jr. | 1839–1841 | Democratic | Pittsfield | ||
John S. Wells | 1841–1842 | Democratic | Lancaster | ||
Samuel Swasey | 1842–1844 | Democratic | Haverhill | ||
Harry Hibbard | 1844–1846 | Democratic | Bath | ||
John P. Hale | 1846–1847 | Democratic | Dover | ||
Moses Norris Jr. | 1847–1848 | Democratic | Pittsfield | ||
Samuel H. Ayer | 1848–1850 | Hillsborough | |||
Nathaniel B. Baker | 1850–1852 | Democratic | Concord | ||
George W. Kittredge | 1852–1853 | Democratic | Newmarket | ||
Jonathan Everett Sargent | 1853–1854 | Republican | Wentworth | ||
Francis R. Chase | 1854–1855 | Republican | Northfield | ||
John J. Prentiss | 1855–1856 | Republican | Claremont | ||
Edward H. Rollins | 1856–1858 | Republican | Concord | ||
Napolean B. Bryant | 1858–1860 | Republican | Plymouth | ||
Charles H. Bell | 1860–1861 | Republican | Exeter | ||
Edward A. Rollins | 1861–1863 | Republican | Great Falls | ||
William E. Chandler | 1863–1865 | Republican | Concord | ||
Austin F. Pike | 1865–1867 | Republican | Franklin | ||
Simon G. Griffin | 1867–1869 | Republican | Keene | ||
Samuel M. Wheeler | 1869–1871 | Republican | Dover | ||
William H. Gove | 1871–1872 | Republican | Weare | ||
Asa Fowler | 1872–1873 | Republican | Concord | ||
James Emery | 1873–1874 | Republican | Hudson | ||
Albert R. Hatch | 1874–1875 | Republican | Portsmouth | ||
Charles P. Sanborn | 1875–1877 | Republican | Concord | ||
Augustus A. Woolson | 1877–1879 | Republican | Lisbon | ||
Henry H. Huse | 1879–1881 | Republican | Manchester | ||
Chester B. Jordan | 1881–1883 | Republican | Lancaster | ||
Samuel C. Eastman | 1883–1885 | Republican | Concord | ||
Edgar Aldrich | 1885–1887 | Republican | Colebrook | ||
Alvin Burleigh | 1887–1889 | Republican | Plymouth | ||
Hiram D. Upton | 1889–1891 | Republican | Jaffrey | ||
Frank G. Clarke | 1891–1893 | Republican | Peterborough | ||
Robert N. Chamberlain | 1893–1895 | Republican | Berlin | ||
Stephen S. Jewett | 1895–1897 | Republican | Laconia | ||
James F. Briggs | 1897–1899 | Republican | Manchester | ||
Frank D. Currier | 1899–1901 | Republican | Canaan | ||
Cyrus H. Little | 1901–1903 | Republican | Manchester | ||
Harry N. Cheney | 1903–1905 | Republican | Lebanon | ||
Rufus N. Elwell | 1905–1907 | Republican | Exeter | ||
Bertram Ellis | 1907–1909 | Republican | Keene | ||
Frank A. Musgrove | 1911–1913 | Republican | Hanover | [1] [2] | |
William J. Britton | 1913–1915 | Republican | Wolfeboro | ||
Olin H. Chase | 1915 | Republican | Newport | ||
Edwin C. Bean | 1915 | Republican | Belmont | ||
Arthur P. Morrill | 1915–1919 | Republican | Concord | ||
Charles W. Tobey | 1919–1921 | Republican | Temple | ||
Fred A. Jones | 1921–1923 | Republican | Lebanon | ||
William J. Ahern | 1923–1925 | Democratic | Concord | ||
George A. Wood | 1925–1927 | Republican | Portsmouth | ||
Harold K. Davison | 1927–1929 | Republican | Haverhill | ||
George A. Foster | 1929–1931 | Republican | Concord | ||
Harold M. Smith | 1931–1933 | Republican | Portsmouth | ||
Louis P. Elkins | 1933–1935 | Republican | Concord | ||
Amos N. Blandin | 1935–1937 | Democratic | Bath | ||
Oren V. Handerson | 1937–1939 | Republican | Durham | ||
Ansel N. Sanborn | 1939–1941 | Republican | Wakefield | ||
Charles H. Barnard | 1941–1943 | Republican | Manchester | ||
Sherman Adams | 1943–1945 | Republican | Lincoln | ||
Norris Cotton | 1945–1947 | Republican | Lebanon | ||
J. Walker Wiggin | 1947–1949 | Republican | Manchester | ||
Richard F. Upton | 1949–1951 | Republican | Concord | ||
Lane Dwinell | 1951–1953 | Republican | Lebanon | ||
Raymond K. Perkins | 1953 | Republican | Concord | ||
Norman A. McMeekin | 1954 | Republican | Haverhill | ||
Charles Griffin | 1955 | Republican | Lincoln | ||
Doug Scamman Sr. | 1957–1958 | Republican | Stratham | ||
Stewart Lamprey | 1959–1965 | Republican | Moultonborough | ||
Walter R. Peterson Jr. | 1965–1969 | Republican | Peterborough | ||
Marshall W. Cobleigh | 1969–1973 | Republican | Manchester | ||
James E. O'Neill | 1973–1975 | Republican | Chesterfield | ||
George B. Roberts Jr. | 1975–1981 | Republican | Alton | ||
John B. Tucker | 1981–1987 | Republican | Claremont | ||
Doug Scamman Jr. | 1987–1990 | Republican | Stratham | [3] | |
Harold W. Burns | 1990–1996 | Republican | Whitefield | ||
Donna Sytek | 1996–2000 | Republican | Salem | ||
Gene Chandler | 2000–2004 | Republican | Bartlett | ||
Doug Scamman Jr. | 2004–2006 | Republican | Stratham | ||
Terie Norelli | 2006–2010 | Democratic | Portsmouth | ||
William L. O'Brien | 2010–2012 | Republican | Mont Vernon | ||
Terie Norelli | 2012–2014 | Democratic | Portsmouth | ||
Shawn Jasper | 2014–2017 | Republican | Hudson | ||
Gene Chandler | 2017–2018 | Republican | Bartlett | ||
Steve Shurtleff | 2018–2020 | Democratic | Concord | ||
Dick Hinch | 2020 | Republican | Merrimack | ||
Sherman Packard | 2021– | Republican | Londonderry |