List of Speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives


The following is a List of Speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives, a position that was created with the state's constitution in 1889. The term indicated is the year of the legislative session in which the individual served as speaker. It is customary for the Speaker to serve for only one session. The Speaker is chosen from the party that has the majority in the given session.
#NameTermPartyDistrict
1David B. Wellman1889Republican
22
2William B. Allen1891Republican
25
3George H. Walsh1893Republican
6
4James C. Gill1895Republican
11
5Erastus A. Williams1897Republican
27
6Thomas Baker, Jr.1899Republican
9
7Robert M. Pollock1901Republican
9
8Thomas Baker, Jr.1903Republican
9
9George Piercy1905Republican
23
10Treadwell Twichell1907Republican
10
11Usher L. Burdick1909Republican
18
12James M. Hanley1911Republican
30
13John H. Fraine1913Republican
4
14Alfred P. Hanson1915Republican
38
15Howard R. Wood1917Republican
29
16L. L. Stair1919Republican
28
17Luther L. Twichell1921Republican
9
18Roy Johnson1923Republican
10
19Ben C. Larkin1925Republican
32
20John W. Carr1927Republican
23
21Edwin Traynor1929Republican
21
22Charles V. Freeman1931Republican
6
23Minnie D. Craig1933Republican-NPL
20
24William Crockett1935Republican-NPL
18
25Math Dahl1937Republican-NPL
26
26Oscar W. Hagen1939Republican-NPL
41
27Earl D. Symington1941Republican
1
28Ralph Beede1943Republican
47
29A. R. Bergesen1945Republican
9
30Vernon M. Johnson1947Republican
12
31Palmer Levin1949Republican
3
32Leo Sticka1951Republican
31
33Walter Bubel1953Republican
48
34Kenneth A. Fitch1955Republican
9
35Ben J. Wolf1957Republican
36
36Hjalmar C. Nygaard1959Republican
14
37R. Fay Brown1961Republican
27
38Stanley Saugstad1963Republican
29
39Arthur A. Link1965Democratic-NPL
41
40Gordon S. Aamoth1967Republican
21
41Ernest Norman Johnson1969Republican
23
42Howard Bier1971Republican
31
43Art Bunker1973Republican
21
44Robert F. Reimers1975Republican
29
45Oscar Solberg1977Democratic-NPL
9
46Vernon E. Wagner1979Republican
47
47James A. Peterson1981Republican
40
48Patricia Kelly1983Democratic-NPL
21
49Roy Hausauer1985Republican
25
50Richard Kloubec1987Republican
51
51William Kretschmar1989Republican
28
52Ronald A. Anderson1991Republican
39
53Rick Berg1993Republican
45
54Clarence Martin1995Republican
55
55Mike Timm1997Republican
5
56Francis J. Wald1999Republican
37
57LeRoy G. Bernstein2001Republican
45
58Janet Wentz2003Republican
3
59Matthew Klein2005Republican
40
60Jeff Delzer2007Republican
8
61David Monson2009Republican
10
62David Drovdal2011Republican
39
63Bill Devlin2013Republican
23
64Wesley Belter2015Republican
22
65Larry Bellew2017Republican
38
66Lawrence Klemin2019Republican
47