List of Speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives
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This is a complete list of people who have served as Speakers of the Oregon House of Representatives
Oregon House of Representatives
The Oregon House of Representatives is the lower house of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. There are 60 members of the House, representing 60 districts across the state, each with a population of 57,000. The House meets at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem....

through the 2009 session. Oregon became a state on February 14, 1859, with prior sessions of the House organized under the territorial government and the provisional government. Prior to the adoption of the second set of Organic Laws
Organic Laws of Oregon
The Organic Laws of Oregon were two sets of laws passed in the 1840s that established a structure for government in the Oregon Country in the northwest corner of North America. These laws were created by a legislative committee formed after the Champoeg Meetings...

 in 1845, the legislative body of the provisional government was the legislative committee, and leaders of that body are not listed below.

Before statehood

Session Type Name District/County represented Political party
1845 Provisional Legislature Morton M. McCarver Tuality
1845 Provisional Legislature Robert Newell
Robert Newell (Oregon politician)
Robert "Doc" Newell , was an American politician and fur trapper in the Oregon Country. He was a frontier doctor in what would become the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he served in the Provisional Government of Oregon and later was a member of the Oregon State Legislature...


H. A. G. Lee
Champoeg
Clackamas
1846 Provisional Legislature Asa Lovejoy
Asa Lovejoy
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon...

Clackamas
1847 Provisional Legislature Robert Newell
Robert Newell
Robert Newell VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

Champoeg
1848-1849 Provisional Legislature Ralph Wilcox
Ralph Wilcox
Doctor Ralph Wilcox , was the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, United States. He also served in the Provisional Government of Oregon, was a legislator during both the territorial period and when Oregon became a state, and a judge of Twality County during the provisional...


Levi A. Rice
Tuality
Yamhill
1849 Territorial Legislature
Oregon Territorial Legislature
Oregon’s Territorial Legislature was a bicameral legislative body created by the United States Congress in 1848 as the legislative branch of the government of the Oregon Territory...

Asa Lovejoy
Asa Lovejoy
Asa Lawrence Lovejoy was an American pioneer and politician in the region that would become the U.S. state of Oregon. He is best remembered as a founder of the city of Portland, Oregon...

Clackamas
1850 Territorial Legislature Ralph Wilcox
Ralph Wilcox
Doctor Ralph Wilcox , was the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon, United States. He also served in the Provisional Government of Oregon, was a legislator during both the territorial period and when Oregon became a state, and a judge of Twality County during the provisional...

Washington
1851 Territorial Legislature William M. King Washington
1852 Territorial Legislature Benjamin F. Harding
Benjamin F. Harding
Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...

Marion Democrat
1853 Territorial Legislature Z. C. Bishop Washington Democrat
1854 Territorial Legislature L. F. Cartee Clackamas Democrat
1855 Territorial Legislature Delazon Smith
Delazon Smith
Delazon Smith was a Democratic Party politician who briefly represented the state of Oregon in the U.S. Senate in 1859. He served for less than one month , making his term among the shortest on record in the Senate...

Linn Democrat
1856 Territorial Legislature La Fayette Grover
La Fayette Grover
La Fayette Grover was a Democratic politician and lawyer from the US state of Oregon. He was the fourth Governor of Oregon, serving from 1870 to 1877...

Marion Democrat
1857 Territorial Legislature Ira F. M. Butler Polk Democrat
1858 Territorial Legislature

After statehood

Order Session Type Name County represented Political party
1. 1859 Special William G. T'Vault
William G. T'Vault
William Green T'Vault was a pioneer of the Oregon Country and the first editor of the first newspaper published west of the Missouri River. T'Vault led a wagon train of 300 that arrived in Oregon in 1845, after traveling on the Meek Cutoff, a branch of the Oregon Trail...

Jackson Democrat
2. 1860 Regular Benjamin F. Harding
Benjamin F. Harding
Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...

Marion Democrat
3. 1862 Regular Joel Palmer
Joel Palmer
General Joel Palmer was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. He was born in Canada, and spent his early years in New York and Pennsylvania before serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.Palmer traveled to the Oregon...

Yamhill Republican
4. 1864 Regular Isaac R. Moores, Jr.
Isaac R. Moores, Jr.
Isaac Ross Moores, Jr. was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of Isaac R. Moores, he was born in Illinois and moved to the Oregon Territory in 1852. In Oregon, he would serve in the Oregon House of Representatives, including as Speaker of that body.-Early...

Marion Republican
4. 1865 Special Isaac R. Moores, Jr. Marion Republican
5. 1866 Regular Francis A. Chenoweth
Francis A. Chenoweth
Francis A. Chenoweth was an American lawyer and politician in the Pacific Northwest. A native of Ohio, he lived in Iowa and Wisconsin before immigrating to the Oregon Territory. There he served in the legislature of the Oregon Territory and then the Washington Territory, including serving as...

Benton Republican
6. 1868 Regular John Whiteaker
John Whiteaker
John Whiteaker was an American politician, soldier, and judge primarily in Oregon. A native of Indiana, he joined the Army during the Mexican-American War and then prospected during the California Gold Rush. After moving to the Oregon Territory he served as a judge and member of the legislature...

Lane Democrat
7. 1870 Regular Benjamin Hayden Polk Democrat
8. 1872 Regular Rufus Mallory
Rufus Mallory
Rufus Mallory was an American educator, lawyer, and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of New York, he was a teacher in Iowa before moving to Oregon where he became an attorney. He was a district attorney before he served in the Oregon House of Representatives in the early 1860s. A...

Marion Republican
9. 1874 Regular John C. Drain Douglas Democrat
10. 1876 Regular James K. Weatherford Linn Democrat
11. 1878 Regular John M. Thompson Lane Democrat
12. 1880 Regular Zenas Ferry Moody
Zenas Ferry Moody
Zenas Ferry Moody was the seventh Governor of Oregon from 1882 to 1887.-Early life:Zenas Ferry Moody was born on May 27, 1832, in Granby, Massachusetts, to Thomas Hovey and Hannah Ferry. The family immigrated to Oregon Territory in 1851, traveling the Isthmus of Panama route...

Wasco Republican
13. 1882 Regular George W. McBride
George W. McBride
George Wycliffe McBride was a politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Oregon. An Oregon native, he served in the Oregon Legislative Assembly as Speaker of the House and as Oregon Secretary of State for two terms before election as United States Senator from Oregon. A Republican, he was...

Columbia Republican
14. 1885 Regular
Special
W. P. Keady Benton Republican
15. 1887 Regular J. T. Gregg Marion Republican
16. 1889 Regular E. L. Smith Hood River Republican
17. 1891 Regular Theodore Thurston Geer
Theodore Thurston Geer
Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Governor of Oregon, serving from January 9, 1899 to January 14, 1903. The Republican politician was in office when the legislature adopted the "Oregon System", Oregon's system of initiative and referendum...

Marion Republican
14. 1893 Regular W. P. Keady Multnomah Republican
18. 1895 Regular Charles B. Moores
Charles B. Moores
Charles Bruce Moores was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Missouri, he came from a family of politicians including his father John H. Moores, his grandfather Isaac R. Moores, and uncle Isaac R. Moores, Jr. who all served in the Oregon Legislature...

Marion Republican
1897 House did not organize E.J. Davis
Henry L. Benson
Henry L. Benson
Henry Lamdin Benson was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 44th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1915 to 1921 on the state's highest court...


both selected by rival factions
19. 1898 Special E. V. Carter Jackson Republican
19. 1899 Regular E. V. Carter Jackson Republican
20. 1901 Regular Levi Branson Reeder
Levi Branson Reeder
Levi Branson "Lee" Reeder was an attorney and Republican politician from Pendleton in the US state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1901–1903.-Early life:...

Umatilla Republican
21. 1903 Regular
Special
Lawrence T. Harris
Lawrence T. Harris
Lawrence T. Harris was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon. He was the 45th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1914 to 1924. An a native Oregonian, he also served as a state court judge and in 1903 was the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives...

Lane Republican
22. 1905 Regular A. L. Mills Multnomah Republican
23. 1907 Regular Frank Davey Marion Republican
24. 1909 Regular
Special
Clifton N. McArthur
Clifton N. McArthur
Clifton Nesmith McArthur was a U.S. Representative from Oregon, and grandson of Senator James Willis Nesmith. His father was a member of the Oregon Supreme Court, and Clifton twice served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.-Early life:McArthur was born in The Dalles, Oregon on June...

Multnomah Republican
25. 1911 Regular John P. Rusk Wallowa Republican
24. 1913 Regular Clifton N. McArthur
Clifton N. McArthur
Clifton Nesmith McArthur was a U.S. Representative from Oregon, and grandson of Senator James Willis Nesmith. His father was a member of the Oregon Supreme Court, and Clifton twice served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.-Early life:McArthur was born in The Dalles, Oregon on June...

Multnomah Republican
26. 1915 Regular Ben Selling
Ben Selling
Ben Selling was a businessman, philanthropist, civil rights advocate, and politician Portland, Oregon, United States. He was a noted leader in the Jewish community, and he owned a clothing store in downtown Portland....

Multnomah Republican
27. 1917 Regular Robert N. Stanfield
Robert N. Stanfield
Robert Nelson Stanfield was an American politician and rancher from the state of Oregon. A native of the state, he was a rancher before entering politics and serving in the Oregon House of Representatives, including one session as Speaker...

Umatilla Republican
28. 1919 Regular Seymour Jones Marion Republican
28. 1920 Special Seymour Jones Marion Republican
29. 1921 Regular
Special
Louis E. Bean Lane Republican
30. 1923 Regular K. K. Kubli Multnomah Republican
31. 1925 Regular Denton G. Burdick Deschutes Republican
32. 1927 Regular John H. Carkin Jackson Republican
33. 1929
Thirty-fifth Oregon Legislative Assembly
The thirty-fifth Oregon Legislative Assembly convened in 1929 for its biennial regular session, starting January 14 and finishing March 4. Republicans not only controlled both chambers, but also held overwhelming majorities. Only four Democrats, two in the House and two in the Senate, were members...

Regular R. S. Hamilton
R. S. Hamilton
R.S. Hamilton, a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon, was the Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives for its 1929 regular session....

Deschutes Republican
34. 1931 Regular Frank J. Lonergan Multnomah Republican
35. 1933 Regular
Special
Earl Snell
Earl Snell
Earl Willcox Snell was an Oregon businessman American Republican politician, serving in the Oregon House of Representatives, as the Oregon Secretary of State, and as the 23rd Governor of Oregon....

Gilliam Republican
36. 1935 Regular John E. Cooter Lincoln Democrat
37. 1935 Special Howard Latourette Multnomah Democrat
38. 1937 Regular Harry D. Boivin
Harry D. Boivin
Harry Dolan Boivin was an Oregon lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives for four terms, from 1935 through 1942. He also served in the Oregon State Senate from 1955 to 1972...

Klamath Democrat
39. 1939 Regular Ernest R. Fatland Gilliam Republican
40. 1941 Regular Robert S. Farrell, Jr.
Robert S. Farrell, Jr.
Robert S. Farrell, Jr. was an American Republican politician in the state of Oregon.-Political career:He lived in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon and served as a Delegate to the Republican National Convention from Oregon in both 1940 and 1944. Farrell was elected as the Speaker of the Oregon...

Multnomah Republican
41. 1943 Regular William M. McAllister
William M. McAllister
William Menzies McAllister was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the 1940s, served on the Oregon Supreme Court, and was Chief Justice of the court for eight years beginning in 1959.-Early years:William...

Jackson Republican
42. 1945 Regular Eugene E. Marsh Yamhill Republican
43. 1947 Regular John Hubert Hall
John Hubert Hall
John Hubert Hall was an American Republican politician from the US state of Oregon. He was Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in 1947, fourth in line to the governorship, when the governor, secretary of state, and senate president were all killed in a plane crash...

Multnomah Republican
44. 1949 Regular Frank Van Dyke Jackson Republican
45. 1951 Regular John F. Steelhammer
John F. Steelhammer
John F. Steelhammer was an American politician in the state of Oregon. He attended Western Oregon College , and graduated from the Willamette University College of Law with a doctorate in law. He was an attorney, lobbyist, and served in the Oregon House of Representatives, including one term as...

Marion Republican
46. 1953 Regular Rudie Wilhelm, Jr. Multnomah Republican
47. 1955 Regular Edward A Geary Klamath Republican
48. 1957 Regular
Special
Pat Dooley Multnomah Democrat
49. 1959 Regular Robert B. Duncan
Robert B. Duncan
Robert Blackford Duncan was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he served multiple terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as a U.S. congressman from Oregon. In the Oregon House of Representatives he served as speaker for four years, and in the U.S. House he...

Jackson Democrat
49. 1961 Regular Robert B. Duncan
Robert B. Duncan
Robert Blackford Duncan was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he served multiple terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly and as a U.S. congressman from Oregon. In the Oregon House of Representatives he served as speaker for four years, and in the U.S. House he...

Jackson Democrat
50. 1963 Regular
Special
Clarence Barton Coos Democrat
51. 1965 Regular
Special
F. F. Montgomery Lane Republican
51. 1967 Regular
Special
F. F. Montgomery Lane Republican
52. 1969 Regular Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman "Bob" Smith in Portland, Oregon, is an American politician.-Early life:Smith grew up in Burns, Oregon. He attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, graduating in 1953 with an agricultural degree...

Harney Republican
52. 1971 Regular
Special
Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman Smith
Robert Freeman "Bob" Smith in Portland, Oregon, is an American politician.-Early life:Smith grew up in Burns, Oregon. He attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, graduating in 1953 with an agricultural degree...

Harney Republican
53. 1973
57th Oregon Legislative Assembly
The 57th Oregon Legislative Assembly convened for its regular session from January 8 to July 6, 1973. There was also a special session from January 24 to February 24, 1974....

Regular Richard O. Eymann
Richard O. Eymann
Richard O. Eymann was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Alberta, Canada, he served as an airman during World War II and then graduated from Dartmouth College...

Lane Democrat
53. 1974
57th Oregon Legislative Assembly
The 57th Oregon Legislative Assembly convened for its regular session from January 8 to July 6, 1973. There was also a special session from January 24 to February 24, 1974....

Special Richard O. Eymann
Richard O. Eymann
Richard O. Eymann was an American businessman and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Alberta, Canada, he served as an airman during World War II and then graduated from Dartmouth College...

Lane Democrat
54. 1975 Regular Philip D. Lang Multnomah Democrat
54. 1977 Regular Philip D. Lang Multnomah Democrat
54. 1978 Special Philip D. Lang Multnomah Democrat
55. 1979 Regular Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers is a lawyer and Democratic politician who served three terms as attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States...

Multnomah Democrat
55. 1980 Special Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers is a lawyer and Democratic politician who served three terms as attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States...

Multnomah Democrat
55. 1981 Regular
Special
Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers
Hardy Myers is a lawyer and Democratic politician who served three terms as attorney general of the state of Oregon, United States...

Multnomah Democrat
56. 1983 Regular
Special
Grattan Kerans
Grattan Kerans
Grattan Kerans is an American politician from Oregon. He was a member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in the House of Representatives from 1974 through 1984, and in the Oregon State Senate from 1986 to 1993. He held the position of Speaker of the House during the 1983 legislative...

Lane Democrat
57. 1985 Regular Vera Katz
Vera Katz
Vera Katz is a Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon's most populous city. Growing up in New York City, she moved to Portland in 1962 and was elected to the Oregon...

Multnomah Democrat
57. 1987 Regular Vera Katz
Vera Katz
Vera Katz is a Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon's most populous city. Growing up in New York City, she moved to Portland in 1962 and was elected to the Oregon...

Multnomah Democrat
57. 1989 Regular
Special
Vera Katz
Vera Katz
Vera Katz is a Democratic politician in the state of Oregon. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives and was the 45th mayor of Portland, Oregon's most populous city. Growing up in New York City, she moved to Portland in 1962 and was elected to the Oregon...

Multnomah Democrat
58. 1991 Regular Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell (Oregon politician)
Larry L. Campbell a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon, served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the early 1990s, representing Eugene....

Lane Republican
58. 1993 Regular Larry Campbell
Larry Campbell (Oregon politician)
Larry L. Campbell a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oregon, served as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives in the early 1990s, representing Eugene....

Lane Republican
59. 1995 Regular
Special
Bev Clarno Deschutes Republican
60. 1997 Regular Lynn Lundquist Deschutes Republican
61. 1999 Regular
Special
Lynn Snodgrass
Lynn Snodgrass
Lynn Snodgrass is a politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. She served in the Oregon House of Representatives. A Republican, she was elected Speaker in 1998, succeeding fellow Republican Lynn Lundquist. At the time, many Republicans felt Lundquist was too accommodating to Democratic Governor John...

Clackamas Republican
62. 2001 Regular
Special
Mark Simmons Union Republican
63. 2003 Regular Karen Minnis
Karen Minnis
Karen Minnis is a Oregon Republican politician in United States. She was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1998 to 2009, and served as Speaker of the House from 2003 to 2006.-Early life:...

Multnomah Republican
63. 2005
Seventy-third Oregon Legislative Assembly
The seventy-third Oregon Legislative Assembly was the Oregon Legislative Assembly 's period from 2005 to 2006. The seventy-third Oregon Legislative Assembly was the Oregon Legislative Assembly (OLA)'s period from 2005 to 2006. The seventy-third Oregon Legislative Assembly was the Oregon Legislative...

Regular Karen Minnis
Karen Minnis
Karen Minnis is a Oregon Republican politician in United States. She was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from 1998 to 2009, and served as Speaker of the House from 2003 to 2006.-Early life:...

Multnomah Republican
64. 2007 Regular Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
Jeffrey Alan "Jeff" Merkley is the junior United States Senator from Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party, Merkley was a five-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County within the Portland city limits...

Multnomah Democrat
65. 2009
Seventy-fifth Oregon Legislative Assembly
The seventy-fifth Oregon Legislative Assembly convened beginning on , for its biennial regular session. All of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives and half of the 30 seats in the State Senate were up for election in 2008; the general election for those seats took place on .Democrats took...

Regular Dave Hunt
Dave Hunt (Oregon politician)
Dave Hunt is an American politician in the state of Oregon. A Democrat, he is the State Representative for District 40 of the Oregon House of Representatives. He was elected House Majority Leader for the 2006–2008 session, succeeding Minority Leader Jeff Merkley, who was chosen as Speaker...

Clackamas Democrat
66. 2011
76th Oregon Legislative Assembly
The 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly convened beginning on , for its regular session. All of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives and 16 of the 30 seats in the State Senate were up for election in 2010; the general election for those seats took place on .In 2010, Oregon voters passed Ballot...

Regular Bruce Hanna
Bruce Hanna
Bruce Hanna is a Republican politician from Roseburg in the US state of Oregon. He serves in the Oregon House of Representatives, representing District 7, which spans Lane and Douglas counties...

 (Co-Speaker)
Roseburg Republican
Arnie Roblan
Arnie Roblan
Arnold L. "Arnie" Roblan is a former educator and a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. He has served in the Oregon House of Representatives representing District 9, which spans the southern Oregon Coast, since 2005...

(Co-Speaker)
Coos Bay Democrat
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