Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives, 1846 - present

Name	Biography*	Party	Years in Office	Sessions	Election documents
Joe Straus	HOUSE	Republican	2009-Present	81st - 83rd	View
Tom Craddick	HOUSE	Republican	2003-2009	78th - 80th	View
James E. "Pete" Laney	POTL	Democrat	1993-2003	73rd - 77th	View
Gibson D. "Gib" Lewis	POTL	Democrat	1983-1993	68th - 72nd	View
Bill Wayne Clayton	POTL	Democrat	1975-1983	64th - 67th	View
Marion Price Daniel, Jr.	HTO	Democrat	1973-1975	63rd	View
William Rayford Price	POTL	Democrat	1972-1973	62nd 2nd - 4th Called Sessions	View
Gus F. Mutscher ¹	POTL	Democrat	1969-1972	61st, 62nd	View
Ben F. Barnes	POTL	Democrat	1965-1969	59th, 60th	View
Byron M. Tunnell	TSC	Democrat	1963	58th	View
James A. Turman	POTL	Democrat	1961	57th	View
Waggoner Carr	POTL	Democrat	1957-1961	55th, 56th	View
Jim T. Lindsey	POTL	Democrat	1955-1957	54th	View
Reuben E. Senterfitt	POTL	Democrat	1951-1955	52nd, 53rd	View
Thomas Durwood Manford, Jr.	TSC	Democrat	1949-1951	51st	View
William O. Reed	POTL	Democrat	1947-1949	50th	View
Claud H. Gilmer	POTL	Democrat	1945-1947	49th	View
Marion Price Daniel	HTO	Democrat	1943-1945	48th	View
Homer LaKirby Leonard	TSC	Democrat	1941-1943	47th	View
Robert Emmett Morse	POTL	Democrat	1939-1941	46th	View
Robert Wilburn Calvert	TSC	Democrat	1937-1939	45th	View
Coke Robert Stevenson	HTO	Democrat	1933-1937	43rd, 44th	View
Fred Hawthorne Minor	HTO	Democrat	1931-1933	42nd	View
Wingate S. Barron	POTL	Democrat	1929-1931	41st	View
Robert Lee Bobbitt	POTL	Democrat	1927-1929	40th	View
Robert Lee Satterwhite	POTL	Democrat	1925-1927	39th	View
Richard Ernest Seagler	HTO	Democrat	1923-1925	38th	View
Charles Graham Thomas	HTO	Democrat	1921-1923	37th	View
Robert Ewing Thomason	HTO	Democrat	1919-1921	36th	View
Franklin Oliver Fuller	HTO	Democrat	1917-1919	35th	View
John William Woods	HTO	Democrat	1915-1917	34th	View
Chester H. Terrell	HTO	Democrat	1913-1915	33rd	View
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn	HTO	Democrat	1911-1913	32nd	View
John Wesley Marshall	POTL	Democrat	1909-1911	31st	View
Austin Milton Kennedy	POTL	Democrat	1909	31st	View
Thomas Bell Love	HTO	Democrat	1907-1909	30th	View
Francis William Seabury	POTL	Democrat	1905-1907	29th	View
Pat Morris Neff	HTO	Democrat	1903-1905	28th	View
Robert E. Prince	POTL	Democrat	1901-1903	27th	View
J. S. Sherrill	POTL	Democrat	1899-1901	26th	View
L. Travis Dashiell	HTO	Democrat	1897-1899	25th	View
Thomas Slater Smith	HTO	Democrat	1895-1897	24th	View
John Hughes Cochran	HTO	Democrat	1893-1895	23rd	View
Robert Teague Milner	HTO	Democrat	1891-1893	22nd	View
Frank P. Alexander	POTL	Democrat	1889-1891	21st	View
George Cassety Pendleton	HTO	Democrat	1887-1889	20th	View
Lafayette Lumpkin Foster	HTO	Democrat	1885-1887	19th	View
Charles Reese Gibson	HTO	Democrat	1883-1885	18th	View
George Robertson Reeves	HTO	Democrat	1881-1883	17th	View
John Hughes Cochran	HTO	Democrat	1879-1881	16th	View
Thomas Reuben Bonner	HTO	Democrat	1876-1879	15th	View
Guy Morrison Bryan	HTO	Democrat	1874-1876	14th	View
Marion DeKalb Taylor	HTO	Democrat	1873-1874	13th	View
William Henry Sinclair	POTL	Republican	1871-1873	12th	View
Ira Hobart Evans	HTO	Republican	1870-1871	12th	View
Nathaniel Macon Burford	HTO	Unionist	1866-1870	11th	View
Marion DeKalb Taylor	HTO	Democrat	1863-1866	10th	View
Constantine W. Buckley	HTO	Democrat	1863	9th	View
Nicholas Henry Darnell	HTO	Democrat	1861-1862	9th	View
Constantine W. Buckley	HTO	Democrat	1861	9th	View
Marion DeKalb Taylor	HTO	Democrat	1859-1861	8th	View
Matthew Fielding Locke	POTL	Democrat	1858-1859	7th	View
William S. Taylor	POTL	Democrat	1857-1858	7th	View
Hamilton Prioleau Bee	HTO	Democrat	1855-1857	6th	View
Hardin Richard Runnels	HTO	Democrat	1853-1855	5th	View
David Catchings Dickson	HTO	Democrat	1851-1853	4th	View
Charles G. Keenan	HTO	Democrat	1849-1851	3rd	View
James Wilson Henderson	HTO	Democrat	1847-1849	2nd	View
Stephen W. Perkins	HTO	Democrat	1846	1st	View
William H. Bourland	HTO	Democrat	1846-1847	1st	View
Edward Thomas Branch	HTO	Democrat	1846	1st	View
John Brown	HTO	Democrat	1846	1st	View
William E. Crump	POTL	Democrat	1846	1st	View

*Key to abbreviations:
HOUSE=Texas House of Representatives; HTO=Handbook of Texas Online; POTL=Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature 1846-1991; TSC=Texas State Cemetery

1. In a letter dated 3/27/1972, Gus Mutscher resigned as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, effective upon the election of his successor by the Second Called Session of the 62nd Legislature. Pursuant to Rule I, Section 10 of the Rules of the Texas House of Representatives of the 62nd Legislature, Gus Mutscher appointed James Slider to call the House to order on the first day of the Second Called Session and to preside over the House pending the election of the Speaker.

Sources:
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845, Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-1992. [Austin, Tex.]: Senate Engrossing and Enrolling, Senate Reproduction, [1992].
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature 1846-1991. [Austin, Tex.]: Texas Legislative Council, 1991.
The Handbook of Texas Online [Austin, Tex.]: Texas State Historical Association and The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin, [1999].