Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives explained

The Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the Connecticut House of Representatives.

Speakers, 1699-1818

A list of speakers of the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1699 to 1818 is available at ^[1]

Speakers since 1818

Picture	Name	Town	Political party	Term of service
	David Plant	Stratford	Toleration Republican	1819, 1820	-		Elisha Phelps	Simsbury	Toleration Republican	1821	-		Seth P. Beers	Litchfield	Toleration Republican	1822, 1823	-		Ralph I. Ingersoll	New Haven	Toleration Republican	1824	-		Samuel A. Foot	Cheshire	National Republican	1825, 1826	-		Ebenezer Young	Killingly	National Republican	1827, 1828	-		Elisha Phelps	Simsbury	National Republican	1829	-		Henry W. Edwards	New Haven	Jacksonian	1830	-		Martin Welles	Wethersfield	National Republican	1831, 1832	-		Samuel Ingham	Saybrook	Jacksonian	1833	-		Roger Huntington	Norwich	National Republican	1834 (Resigned May 24, 1834)	-		William L. Storrs	Middletown	National Republican	1834	-		Samuel Ingham	Saybrook	Democratic	1835 (Resigned May 15, 1835)	-		Chauncey F. Cleveland	Hampton	Democratic	1835, 1836	-		Stillman K. Wightman	Middletown	Democratic	1837	-		William W. Boardman	New Haven	Whig	1838, 1839	-		Charles J. McCurdy	Lyme	Whig	1840, 1841	-		Stillman K. Wightman	Middletown	Democratic	1842	-		Noyes Billings	New London	Democratic	1843	-		Charles J. McCurdy	Lyme	Whig	1844	-		William W. Boardman	NewHaven	Whig	1845	-		Cyrus H. Beardslee	Monroe	Democratic	1846	-		Lafayette S. Foster	Norwich	Whig	1847, 1848	-		John C. Lewis	Plymouth	Free Soil Democratic	1849	-		Origen S. Seymour	Litchfield	Democratic	1850	-		Samuel Ingham	Saybrook	Democratic	1851	-		Charles B. Phelps	Woodbury	Democratic	1852	-		William W. Eaton	Hartford	Democratic	1853	-		Lafayette S. Foster	Norwich	Whig	1854 (Resigned June 8, 1854)	-		Green Kendrick	Waterbury	Whig	1854	-		Austin Baldwin	Middletown	American	1855	-		Green Kendrick	Waterbury	Whig	1856
	Eliphalet A. Bulkeley	Hartford	Union	1857	-		Alfred A. Burnham	Windham	Republican	1858	-		Oliver H. Perry	Fairfield	Republican	1859, 1860	-		Augustus Brandegee	New London	Republican	1861	-		Henry C. Deming	Hartford	Democratic	1861 (Elected Oct. 9, 1861)	-		Josiah M. Carter	Norwalk	Republican	1862	-		Chauncey F. Cleveland	Hampton	Republican	1863
	John S. Rice	Farmington	Union	1864	-		Eleazer K. Foster	New Haven	Republican	1865
	David Gallup	Plainfield	Union	1866
	John T. Wait	Norwich	Union	1867	-		Charles Ives	East Haven	Republican	1868	-		Orville H. Platt	Meriden	Republican	1869	-		Lafayette S. Foster	Norwich	Republican	1870 (Resigned June 16, 1870)	-		Alfred A. Burnham	Windham	Republican	1870	-		Edwin H. Bugbee	Killingly	Republican	1871	-		Amos S. Treat	Woodbridge	Republican	1872	-		William W. Eaton	Hartford	Democratic	1873	-		Tilton E. Doolittle	New Haven	Democratic	1874	-		Charles Durand	Derby	Republican	1875	-		Thomas M. Waller	New London	Democratic	1876	-		Lynde Harrison	Guilford	Republican	1877	-		Charles H. Briscoe	Enfield	Republican	1878	-		Dexter R. Wright	New Haven	Republican	1879	-		Dwight Marcy	Vernon	Republican	1880	-		William C. Case	Granby	Republican	1881
	John Manning Hall	Windham	Republican	1882	-		Charles H. Pine	Derby	Republican	1883	-		Henry B. Harrison	New Haven	Republican	1884	-		William Edgar Simonds	Canton	Republican	1885	-		John A. Tibbits	New London	Republican	1886	-		Heusted W. R. Hoyt	Greenwich	Republican	1887	-		John H. Perry	Fairfield	Republican	1889	-		Allen W. Paige	Huntington	Republican	1891	-		Isaac W. Brooks	Torrington	Republican	1893	-		Samuel Fessenden	Stamford	Republican	1895	-		Joseph L. Barbour	Hartford	Republican	1897	-		Frank B. Brandegee	New London	Republican	1899	-		John H. Light	Norwalk	Republican	1901	-		Michael Kenealy	Stamford	Republican	1903	-		Marcus H. Holcomb	Southington	Republican	1905	-		John Q. Tilson	New Haven	Republican	1907	-		Elmore S. Banks	Fairfield	Republican	1909	-		Frederick A. Scott	Plymouth	Republican	1911	-		Morris C. Webster	Harwinton	Republican	1913	-		Frank E. Healy	Windsor Locks	Republican	1915	-		James F. Walsh	Greenwich	Republican	1917	-		Frederick W. Huxford	Stamford	Republican	1921	-		Leonard J. Nickerson	Cornwall	Republican	1923	-		Elbert L. Darbie	Killingly	Republican	1925	-		John H. Hill	Shelton	Republican	1927	-		Samuel A. Eddy	North Canaan	Republican	1929	-		Howard W. Alcorn	Suffield	Republican	1931	-		William Hanna	Bethel	Republican	1933, 1935	-		J. Mortimer Bell	Salisbury	Republican	1937	-		Walter Howe	Litchfield	Republican	1939	-		Hugh Meade Alcorn, Jr.	Suffield	Republican	1941	-		Harold E. Mitchell	West Hartford	Republican	1943	-		E. Lea Marsh, Jr.	Old Lyme	Republican	1945	-		Frederick H. Holbrook	Madison	Republican	1947	-		John R. Thim	Hamden	Republican	1949	-		Mansfield D. Sprague	New Canaan	Republican	1951	-		Arthur E. B. Tanner	Woodbury	Republican	1953	-		W. Sheffield Cowles	Farmington	Republican	1955	-		Nelson C. L. Brown, II	Groton	Republican	1957	-		William J. O'Brien, Jr.	Portland	Democratic	1959	-		Anthony E. Wallace	Simsbury	Republican	1961	-		J. Tyler Patterson, Jr.	Old Lyme	Republican	1963-1965	-		Robert J. Testo	Bridgeport	Democratic	1967	-		William R. Ratchford	Danbury	Democratic	1969-1973	-		Francis J. Collins	Brookfield Center	Republican	1973-1975	-		James J. Kennelly	Hartford	Democratic	1975-1979	-		Ernest N. Abate	Stamford	Democratic	1979-1983	-		Irving J. Stolberg	New Haven	Democratic	1983-1985	-		R. E. Van Norstrand	Darien	Republican	1985-1987	-		Irving J. Stolberg	New Haven	Democratic	1987-1989	-		Richard J. Balducci	Newington	Democratic	1989-1993	-		Thomas D. Ritter	Hartford	Democratic	1993-1999	-		Moira K. Lyons	Stamford	Democratic	1999-2005	-		James A. Amann	Milford	Democratic	2005-2009	-		Christopher G. Donovan	Meriden	Democratic	2009-2013	-		J. Brendan Sharkey	Hamden	Democratic	2013-2017	-		Joe Aresimowicz	Berlin	Democratic	2017-2021	-		Matthew Ritter	Hartford	Democratic	2021-

References

• Web site: SOTS: Speakers of the House of Representatives. www.ct.gov. 2015-12-13.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Two-Term Precedent for Speakers of the House of Representatives of Connecticut . Janicki . Mary M. . 14 September 1995 . The Office of the House Clerk - Connecticut General Assembly . 14 October 2023 .