List of Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives


The Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives is the Speaker or presiding officer of the Vermont House of Representatives, the lower house of the Vermont Legislature.
The Speaker presides over sessions of the Houses, recognizes members so that they may speak, and ensures compliance with House rules for parliamentary procedure. The Speaker also assigns members to the standing committees of the House and assigns committee chairpersons. The Speaker is second in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Vermont.

Vermont was admitted to the Union in 1791 as the fourteenth state, but its House of Representatives dates from 1778, when the Vermont Republic was created.
Vermont had a unicameral legislature until 1836, when the Governor's Council was abolished and the Vermont Senate was created.
The Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives earned $10,080 starting in 2005. Beginning in 2007, this amount receives an annual cost of living increase.
SpeakerTermParty
Joseph Bowker1778
Nathan Clark1778
Thomas Chandler, Jr.1778–1780
Samuel Robinson1780
Thomas Porter1780–1782
Increase Moseley1782–1783
Isaac Tichenor1783–1784Federalist
Nathaniel Niles1784–1785Democratic-Republican
Stephen R. Bradley1785–1786Democratic-Republican
John Strong1786Democratic-Republican
Gideon Olin1786–1793Democratic-Republican
Daniel Buck1793–1795Federalist
Lewis R. Morris1795–1797Federalist
Abel Spencer1797–1798Federalist
Daniel Farrand1798–1799Federalist
Amos Marsh1799–1802Federalist
Abel Spencer1802–1803Federalist
Theophilus Harrington1803–1804Democratic-Republican
Aaron Leland1804–1804Democratic-Republican
Dudley Chase1808–1813Democratic-Republican
Daniel Chipman1813–1815Federalist
William A. Griswold1815–1818Democratic-Republican
Richard Skinner1818–1819Democratic-Republican
William A. Griswold1819–1820Democratic-Republican
D. Azro A. Buck1820–1822Adams-Clay Republican
George E. Wales1822–1824Adams-Clay Republican
Isaac Fletcher1824Democratic-Republican
D. Azro A. Buck1825–1826Adams-Clay Republican
Robert B. Bates1826–1829Democratic-Republican
D. Azro A. Buck1829–1830Adams-Clay Republican
Robert B. Bates1830–1831Democratic-Republican
John Smith1831–1834Democratic-Republican
Ebenezer N. Briggs1834–1836Whig
Carlos Coolidge1836–1837Whig
Solomon Foot1837–1839Whig
Carlos Coolidge1839–1842Whig
Andrew Tracy1842–1845Whig
Ebenezer N. Briggs1845–1847Whig
Solomon Foot1847–1848Whig
William C. Kittredge1848–1850Whig
Thomas E. Powers1850–1853Whig
Horatio Needham1853–1854Free Soil Democratic
George W. Grandey1854–1857Republican
George F. Edmunds1857–1860Republican
Augustus P. Hunton1860–1862Republican
J. Gregory Smith1862–1863Republican
Abraham B. Gardner1863–1865Republican
John W. Stewart1865–1868Republican
George W. Grandey1868–1870Republican
Charles Herbert Joyce1870–1872Republican
Franklin Fairbanks1872–1874Republican
Horace Henry Powers1874Republican
Josiah Grout1874–1876Republican
John W. Stewart1876–1878Republican
James Loren Martin1878–1884Republican
James K. Batchelder1884–1886Republican
Josiah Grout1886–1890Republican
Henry R. Start1890Republican
Hosea A. Mann, Jr.1890–1892Republican
William Wallace Stickney1892–1896Republican
William A. Lord1896–1898Republican
Kittredge Haskins1898–1900Republican
Fletcher Dutton Proctor1900–1902Republican
John H. Merrifield1902–1906Republican
Thomas Charles Cheney1906–1910Republican
Frank E. Howe1910–1912Republican
Charles Albert Plumley1912–1915Republican
John E. Weeks1915–1917Republican
Stanley C. Wilson1917Republican
Charles S. Dana1917–1921Republican
Franklin S. Billings1921–1923Republican
Orlando L. Martin1923–1925Republican
Roswell M. Austin1925–1927Republican
Loren R. Pierce1927–1929Republican
Benjamin Williams1929–1931Republican
Edward H. Deavitt1931–1933Republican
George David Aiken1933–1935Republican
Ernest E. Moore1935–1937Republican
Mortimer R. Proctor1937–1939Republican
Oscar L. Shepard1939–1941Republican
Lee Earl Emerson1941–1943Republican
Asa S. Bloomer1943–1945Republican
Joseph H. Denny1945–1947Republican
Winston L. Prouty1947–1949Republican
J. Harold Stacey1949–1951Republican
Wallace M. Fay1951–1953Republican
Consuelo N. Bailey1953–1955Republican
John E. Hancock1955–1957Republican
Charles H. Brown1957–1959Republican
F. Ray Keyser, Jr.1959–1961Republican
Leroy Lawrence1961–1963Republican
Franklin S. Billings, Jr.1963–1965Republican
Richard Walker Mallary1965–1969Republican
John S. Burgess1969–1971Republican
Walter L. Kennedy1971–1975Republican
Timothy J. O'Connor, Jr.1975–1981Democratic
Stephan A. Morse1981–1985Republican
Ralph G. Wright1985–1995Democratic
Michael J. Obuchowski1995–2001Democratic
Walter E. Freed2001–2005Republican
Gaye Randolph Symington2005–2009Democratic
Shapleigh "Shap" Smith, Jr.2009–2017Democratic
Mitzi Johnson2017–presentDemocratic