List of Speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
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Mike Chenault is the incumbent speaker, serving in the position since 2009. A large wood carving depicting the state seal hangs on the wall behind the speaker's chair.
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State seal of Alaska.
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The front entrance to the Speaker's chambers in the Alaska State Capitol.
This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).
Speakers
Territorial House
No. | Name | Image | Party | Hometown | Division | Term | Legislatures |
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1 | Earnest B. Collins | Republican | Fox | 4th | 1913 – 1917 | First, Second | |
2 | Luther C. Hess | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1917 – 1919 | Third | |
3 | E. J. White | Democratic | Juneau | 1st | 1919 – 1921 | Fourth | |
4 | Andrew Nerland | Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1921 – 1923 | Fifth | |
5 | Cash Cole | Republican | Juneau | 1st | 1923 – 1925 | Sixth | |
6 | C. H. Wilcox | Democratic | Valdez | 3rd | 1925 – 1927 | Seventh | |
7 | Sumner S. Smith | Republican | Anchorage | 3rd | 1927 – 1929 | Eighth | |
8 | R. C. Rothenburg | Independent Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1929 – 1931 | Ninth | |
9 | Grover C. Winn | Republican | Juneau | 1st | 1931 – 1933 | Tenth | |
10 | Joe McDonald | Democratic | Ester Creek | 4th | 1933 – 1935 | Eleventh | |
11 | Joseph S. Hofman | Democratic | Seward | 3rd | 1935 – 1937 | Twelfth | |
12 | Joe Green | Democratic | Hyder | 1st | 1937 – 1939 | Thirteenth | |
13 | Howard Lyng | Democratic | Nome | 2nd | 1939 – 1941 | Fourteenth | |
14 | Herbert H. McCutcheon | Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1941 – 1943 | Fifteenth | |
15 | James V. Davis | Democratic | Juneau | 1st | 1943 – 1945 | Sixteenth | |
16 | Jesse D. Lander | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1945 – 1947 | Seventeenth | |
17 | Oscar S. Gill | Republican | Anchorage | 3rd | 1947 – 1949 | Eighteenth | |
18 | Stanley J. McCutcheon | Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1949 – 1951 | Nineteenth | |
19 | William A. Egan | ![]() |
Democratic | Valdez | 3rd | 1951 – 1953 | Twentieth |
20 | George J. Miscovich | Republican | Fairbanks | 4th | 1953 – 1955 | Twenty-First | |
21 | Wendell P. Kay | Democratic | Anchorage | 3rd | 1955 – 1957 | Twenty-Second | |
22 | Richard J. Greuel | Democratic | Fairbanks | 4th | 1957 – 1959 | Twenty-Third |
State House
No. | Name | Image | Party | Hometown | District | Term | Legislatures |
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1 | Warren A. Taylor | Democratic | Fairbanks | 19 | 1959 – 1963 | First, Second | |
2 | Bruce Kendall | Republican | Anchorage | 8 | 1963 – 1965 | Third | |
3 | Mike Gravel | ![]() |
Democratic | Anchorage | 8 | 1965 – 1967 | Fourth |
4 | William K. Boardman | Republican | Ketchikan | 1 | 1967 – 1969 | Fifth | |
5 | Jalmar M. Kerttula | ![]() |
Democratic | Palmer | 7 | 1969 – 1971 | Sixth |
6 | Gene Guess | Democratic | Anchorage | 8 | 1971 – 1973 | Seventh | |
7 | Tom Fink | ![]() |
Republican | Anchorage | 8 | 1973 – 1975 | Eighth |
8 | Mike Bradner | ![]() |
Democratic | Fairbanks | 20 | 1975 – 1977 | Ninth |
9 | Hugh Malone | ![]() |
Democratic | Kenai | 13 | 1977 – 1979 | Tenth |
10 | Terry Gardiner | ![]() |
Democratic | Ketchikan | 1 | 1979 – 1981 | Eleventh |
11 | Jim Duncan | ![]() |
Democratic | Juneau | 4 | 1981 – 1981 | Twelfth |
12 | Joe L. Hayes | ![]() |
Republican | Anchorage | 12, 9 | 1981 – 1985 | Twelfth, Thirteenth |
13 | Ben F. Grussendorf | Democratic | Sitka | 3 | 1985 – 1989 | Fourteenth, Fifteenth | |
14 | Samuel R. Cotten | ![]() |
Democratic | Eagle River | 15 | 1989 – 1991 | Sixteenth |
15 | Ben F. Grussendorf | Democratic | Sitka | 3 | 1991 – 1993 | Seventeenth | |
16 | Ramona L. Barnes | ![]() |
Republican | Anchorage | 22 | 1993 – 1995 | Eighteenth |
17 | Gail Phillips | Republican | Homer | 7 | 1995 – 1999 | Nineteenth, Twentieth | |
18 | Brian Porter | Republican | Anchorage | 20 | 1999 – 2003 | Twenty-First, Twenty-Second | |
19 | Pete Kott | Republican | Eagle River | 17 | 2003 – 2005 | Twenty-Third | |
20 | John Harris | Republican | Valdez | 12 | 2005 – 2009 | Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth | |
21 | Mike Chenault | ![]() |
Republican | Nikiski | 34 | 2009 – present | Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth |
External links
- Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2013 (PDF) (Centennial ed.). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2013. — contains photos of most speakers
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