List of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". This is a list of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House Resolution. As well as presiding over the body, the Speaker is also the chief leader, and controls the flow of legislation. Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the House. The current house speaker is Ronald Mariano.

Colonial period

House of Deputies of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Speaker Portrait Years ↑ Town Electoral history
William Hathorne 1644–1645 Salem
George Cooke 1645 Cambridge
William Hathorne 1646 Salem
Robert Bridges 1646 Lynn
Joseph Hills 1647 Mistick Side
William Hathorne 1648 Salem
Richard Russell 1648 Charlestown
Daniel Denison 1649 Ipswich
William Hathorne 1650 Salem
Daniel Gookin 1651 Cambridge
Daniel Denison 1651–1652 Ipswich
Humphrey Atherton 1653 Springfield
Richard Russell 1654 Charlestown
Edward Johnson 1655
Richard Russell 1656 Charlestown
William Hathorne 1657 Salem
Richard Russell 1658 Charlestown
Thomas Savage File:Major Thomas Savage.jpg 1659–1660
William Hathorne 1660–1661 Salem
Thomas Clarke 1662
John Leverett File:JohnLeverettInMilitaryUniform.jpg 1663–1664 Boston
Thomas Clarke 1665
Richard Waldron 1666–1668 Cocheco
Thomas Clarke 1669–1670
Thomas Savage 1671 Boston
Thomas Clarke 1672
Richard Waldron 1673 Cocheco
Joshua Hubbard 1673–1674
Richard Waldron 1674–1675 Cocheco
Peter Bulkeley 1675–1676 Concord
Thomas Savage 1677–1678 Boston
Richard Waldron 1679 Cocheco Town became part of New Hampshire
John Richards 1679–1680 Dorchester
Daniel Fisher 1680–1682 Dedham
Elisha Cooke Sr. File:Elisha Cooke SR.jpg 1683 Boston
John Waite 1684 Malden
Isaac Addington 1685 Boston
John Saffin 1686 Boston General Court adjourned May 21, 1686, did not convene until May or June 1689

Inter-Charter Period

Speaker Portrait Years ↑ Town Electoral history
Thomas Oakes 1689 Boston
John Bowles 1698–1690 Boston
Penn Townsend 1690–1691 Salem
William Bond 1691–1692 Watertown
Penn Townsend 1692 Salem

Second Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay

Speaker Portrait Years ↑ Town Electoral history
William Bond 1692–1693 Watertown
Nathaniel Byfield File:Nathaniel-Byfield 1730 John-Smibert.jpg 1693–1694 Boston
Nehemiah Jewett 1694–1695 Rowley
William Bond 1695–1696 Watertown
Penn Townsend 1696–1697 Salem
Nathaniel Byfield 1698 Rowley
James Converse 1699–1700 Woburn
John Leverett File:John Leverett.gif 1700–1701 Boston
Nehemiah Jewett 1701–1702 Rowley
James Converse 1702–1705 Woburn
Thomas Oakes 1705–1707 Boston
John Burrill 1707 Lynn
Thomas Oliver 1708–1709 Cambridge
John Clark 1709–1711 Boston
John Burrill 1711–1720 Lynn
Elisha Cooke Jr. File:ElishaCookeJr.jpg 1720
Timothy Lindall 1720–1721 Boston
John Clark 1721–1724 Boston
William Dudley 1724–1729 Roxbury
John Quincy 1729–1741 Mount Wollaston
William Fairfield 1741 Wenham
Thomas Cushing II 1742–1746 Boston
Thomas Hutchinson File:ThomasHutchinsonByEdwardTruman.jpg 1746–1748 Boston Resigned when appointed to the Governor's Council
Joseph Dwight 1748–1750 Brookfield
Thomas Hubbard 1750–1759 Waltham
Samuel White May 30, 1759 –
May 28, 1760 		Taunton
James Otis Sr. File:James-otis-1-large.jpg May 28, 1760 –
May 26, 1762 		Barnstable Resigned when appointed to the Governor's Council
Timothy Ruggles File:Timothy Ruggles.jpg May 26, 1762 –
May 25, 1764 		Rochester
Samuel White May 25, 1764 –
June 11, 1764 		Taunton
Thomas Clap pro tem June 11, 1764 –
May 29, 1765
Samuel White May 29, 1764 –
May 28, 1766 		Taunton
James Otis Jr. File:JamesOtisJr by Blackburn.jpg May 28, 1766 –
May 28, 1766 		Barnstable
Thomas Cushing File:Thomas Cushing, Member of Continental Congress.jpg May 28, 1766 –
1774 		Boston

Massachusetts Provincial Congress of Deputies

Speaker Portrait Years ↑ Electoral History
John Hancock File:John Hancock 1770-crop.jpg 1774-1775 Left office to attend the Second Continental Congress where he served as President
Joseph Warren File:JosephWarrenByCopley.jpeg 1775 Died at the Battle of Bunker Hill
James Warren File:James Warren.jpg 1775-1780

House of Representatives under the Massachusetts Constitution

# Portrait Speaker Party Years ↑ City or Town (District)1 Electoral history
1 File:Caleb Davis 1738-1797.jpg Caleb Davis None 1780–1782 Boston Resigned
2 File:Nathaniel Gorham.jpg Nathaniel Gorham None 1782–1783 Charlestown Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
3 File:Portrait of Tristram Dalton, 1st US Senator from Massachusetts.jpg Tristram Dalton None 1783–1784 Newbury Elected to State Senate
4 File:Gilbert Stuart, Samuel Alleyne Otis, 1811-1813, NGA 57542.jpg Samuel Allyne Otis None 1784–1785 Barnstable Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
5 File:Nathaniel Gorham.jpg Nathaniel Gorham None 1785–1786 Charlestown Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
6 File:Raphaelle Peale - Artemas Ward (1727-1800) - H835 - Harvard Art Museums.jpg Artemas Ward None 1786–1787 Shrewsbury Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
7 File:James Warren.jpg James Warren None 1787–1788 Plymouth Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
8 File:TheodoreSedgwick.jpg Theodore Sedgwick style="background:Template:Party color" | Pro-Administration 1788–1789 Sheffield Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
9 File:Gilbert Stuart - General David Cobb (page 229 crop).jpg David Cobb style="background:Template:Party color" | Pro-Administration 1789–1793 Taunton Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
10 File:Edward Hutchinson Robbins.jpg Edward Robbins Democratic-Republican 1793–1802 Boston Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
11 John Coffin Jones Federalist 1802–1803 Boston Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
12 File:Harrison Gray Otis by Chester Harding, 1833, oil on canvas, from the National Portrait Gallery - NPG-7700056A 2.jpg Harrison Gray Otis Federalist 1803–1805 Boston Elected to the State Senate
13 File:Timothy Bigelow, Jr. (1767).jpg Timothy Bigelow Federalist 1805–1806 Worcester Party lost majority
14 File:PerezMorton byFevretDeSaintMemin.png Perez Morton Democratic-Republican 1806–1808 Dorchester Party lost majority
15 File:Timothy Bigelow, Jr. (1767).jpg Timothy Bigelow Federalist 1808–1810 Worcester Party lost majority
16 File:PerezMorton byFevretDeSaintMemin.png Perez Morton Democratic-Republican 1810–1811 Dorchester Resigned
17 File:Daguerreotype of Joseph Story, 1844 (edit).jpg Joseph Story Democratic-Republican 1811–1812 Salem Resigned when appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
18 File:Eleazer-ripley.png Eleazer Ripley Democratic-Republican 1812 Waterville Joined United States Army
19 File:Timothy Bigelow, Jr. (1767).jpg Timothy Bigelow Federalist 1812–1820 Worcester Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
20 File:ElijahMills.jpg Elijah H. Mills Federalist 1820–1821 Northampton Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
21 File:Josiah Quincy.jpg Josiah Quincy III Federalist 1821–1822 Boston Resigned to become Judge of Boston Municipal Court
22 File:Luther Lawrence.jpg Luther Lawrence Federalist 1822 Lowell Party lost majority
23 File:LLincolnJr.jpg Levi Lincoln Jr. National Republican 1822–1823 Worcester Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
24 William C. Jarvis[1] National Republican 1823–1825 Woburn Party lost majority
25 File:Timothy Fuller.jpg Timothy Fuller Democratic-Republican 1825–1826 Cambridgeport Party lost majority
26 William C. Jarvis National Republican 1826–1828 Woburn Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
27 File:William Barron Calhoun.png William B. Calhoun National Republican 1828–1834 Springfield Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
28 File:JuliusRockwell.jpg Julius Rockwell style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1835–1837 Pittsfield Resigned when appointed commissioner of the Bank of Massachusetts
29 File:Robert Charles Winthrop - Brady-Handy (cropped).jpg Robert Charles Winthrop style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1838–1840 Boston Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
30 File:George Ashmun.png George Ashmun style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1841 Blandford Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
31 File:Judge Thomas Kinnicutt by Moses Wight.jpg Thomas H. Kinnicutt style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1842 Worcester Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
32 File:Daniel Putnam King (1801-1850).jpg Daniel P. King style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1843 South Danvers Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
33 File:Judge Thomas Kinnicutt by Moses Wight.jpg Thomas H. Kinnicutt style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1844 Worcester Resigned
34 Samuel H. Walley Jr. style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1844–1846 Boston Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
35 Ebenezer Bradbury style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1847 Newburyport Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
36 Francis Crowninshield style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1848–1849 Boston Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
37 File:Ensign Hosmer Kellogg.png Ensign H. Kellogg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1850 Pittsfield Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
38 File:Nathaniel Prentice Banks.jpg Nathaniel Prentice Banks Democratic 1851–1852 Waltham Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
39 George Bliss style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1853 Springfield Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
40 Otis P. Lord style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Whig 1854 Salem Party lost majority
41 File:1855 Daniel Clarke Eddy Massachusetts House of Representatives US.png Daniel C. Eddy style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Know Nothing 1855 Lowell Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
42 Charles A. Phelps style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Know Nothing 1856–1857 Boston Elected to the Massachusetts Senate;[2] Party Lost election
43 File:JuliusRockwell.jpg Julius Rockwell style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1858 Pittsfield Resigned when appointed to the Massachusetts Superior Court
44 File:CharlesHale ca1861 Boston.png Charles Hale style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1859 Boston Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
45 John A. Goodwin style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1860–1861 Lowell Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
46 File:AlexanderBullock.jpg Alexander Hamilton Bullock style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1862–1865 Worcester Elected Governor of Massachusetts
47 James M. Stone style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1866–1867 Charlestown Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
48 File:1868 Harvey Jewell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Harvey Jewell style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1868–1871 Boston Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
49 File:1875 John Eliot Sanford Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John E. Sanford style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1872–1875 Taunton Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
50 File:JDLong.jpg John Davis Long style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1876–1878 Hingham Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
51 File:Levi Clifford Wade.png Levi C. Wade style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1879 Newton Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
52 File:Charles J. Noyes.png Charles J. Noyes style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1880–1882 Boston (14th Suffolk) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
53 File:George Augustus Marden.png George Augustus Marden style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1883–1884 Lowell Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
54 File:1878 John Quincy Adams Brackett Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John Q. A. Brackett style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican January 7, 1885 –
1886 		Boston (17th Suffolk)[3] Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
55 File:Charles J. Noyes.png Charles J. Noyes style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1887–1888 Boston (14th Suffolk) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
56 File:William Emerson Barrett.png William Emerson Barrett style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1889–1893 Melrose (11th Middlesex) Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
57 File:Portrait of George von Lengerke Meyer.jpg George von Lengerke Meyer style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1894–1896 Boston (9th Suffolk) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
58 File:JohnLBates.jpg John Lewis Bates style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1897–1899 Boston (1st Suffolk) Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
59 File:James J. Myers.png James J. Myers style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1900–1903 Cambridge (1st Middlesex) Retired
60 File:Louis Adams Frothingham.png Louis A. Frothingham style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1904–1905 Boston (11th Suffolk) Left House to run for governor
61 File:John N. Cole.png John N. Cole style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1906–1908 Andover (8th Essex) Left House to run for Lieutenant Governor
62 File:Joseph H. Walker (Massachusetts speaker).png Joseph Walker style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1909–1911 Brookline (2nd Norfolk) Left House to run for governor
63 File:Grafton Dulany Cushing.png Grafton D. Cushing style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1912–1914 Boston (11th Suffolk) Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
64 File:Channing H Cox.png Channing H. Cox style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1915–1918 Boston (10th Suffolk) Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
65 File:Joseph E. Warner.png Joseph E. Warner style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1919–1920 Taunton (4th Bristol) Lost primary for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts to Alvan Fuller
66 File:Benjamin Loring Young.png Benjamin Loring Young style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1921–1924 Weston (13th Middlesex) Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
67 File:John Carpenter Hull.png John C. Hull style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1925–1928 Leominster (11th Worcester) Appointed First Securities Director in the wake of The Great Depression (1930–36)
68 File:LeverettSaltonstall.jpg Leverett Saltonstall style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1929–1936 Chestnut Hill (5th Middlesex) Defeated for election as Lieutenant Governor by Francis E. Kelly [4]
69 File:1935 Horace Cahill Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Horace T. Cahill style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1937–1938 Braintree (6th Norfolk) Elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
70 File:Christian Archibald Herter (politician).jpg Christian Herter style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1939–1942 Boston (5th Suffolk) Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
71 File:1939 Rudolph King Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Rudolph King style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1943–1944 Millis (8th Norfolk) Resigned to run become Registrar of Motor Vehicles
72 File:1945 Frederick Willis Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Frederick Willis style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1945–1948 Saugus (10th Essex) Party lost majority
73 File:Tip O'Neill 1978 (retouched).jpg Thomas P. O'Neill style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1949–1952 Cambridge (3rd Middlesex) Party lost majority; O'Neill elected to U.S. House of Representatives
74 File:1953 Charles Gibbons Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Charles Gibbons style="background-color:Template:Republican Party (US)/meta/shading" | Republican 1953–1954 Stoneham (22nd Middlesex) Party lost majority
75 File:1945 Michael Skerry Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Michael F. Skerry style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1955–1957 Medford (27th Middlesex) Resigned when appointed Clerk of the Malden District Court
76 File:1953 John Forbes Thompson Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John F. Thompson style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1958–1964 Ludlow (2nd Hampden) Resigned after being indicted on charges of conspiracy and bribery
77 File:1967 John Davoren Massachusetts House of Representatives.png John Davoren style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1965–1967 Milford (9th Worcester) Resigned when appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth
78 File:Rob Quinn (13560397264).jpg Robert H. Quinn style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1967–1969 Boston (9th Suffolk) Elected Massachusetts Attorney General
79 File:David M Bartley.jpg David M. Bartley style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1969–1975 Holyoke (7th Hampden) Resigned to become President of Holyoke Community College
80 File:Thomas W. McGee.jpg Thomas W. McGee style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1975–1984 Lynn (20th Essex) Defeated by Keverian in leadership challenge
81 File:George Keverian 1980s Massachusetts USA 9519694698.png George Keverian style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1985–1990 Everett (39th Middlesex) Retired to run for State Treasurer
82 File:1983 Charles Flaherty Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Charles Flaherty style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic 1991 –
April 9, 1996 		Cambridge (27th Middlesex) Resigned: pleaded guilty to tax evasion
83 File:1995 Thomas Finneran Massachusetts House of Representatives.png Thomas Finneran style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic April 9, 1996 –
September 28, 2004 		Mattapan (12th Suffolk) Resigned after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice
84 File:Salvatore F. DiMasi.jpg Salvatore DiMasi style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic September 28, 2004 –
January 27, 2009 		Boston (3rd Suffolk) Resigned: convicted of conspiracy, honest services fraud, and extortion
85 File:Robert A. DeLeo.jpg Robert DeLeo style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic January 27, 2009 – December 29, 2020 Winthrop (19th Suffolk) Resigned to accept position at Northeastern University
86 File:Speaker Ronald Mariano.jpg Ron Mariano style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Democratic December 30, 2020 – present Quincy (3rd Norfolk) Current speaker

See also

Notes

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