The Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives is elected by fellow members of the
Alabama House of Representatives
The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with ...
. Several Speakers have held more than one term including non-consecutive terms. Republican Speakers held office during some of the
Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was a period in History of the United States, US history that followed the American Civil War (1861-65) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the Abolitionism in the United States, abol ...
and then Democrats held the office until the 21st century.
Former Speakers
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Territorial Assembly
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Gabriel Moore
Gabriel Moore (1785 – August 6, 1844) was a Democratic-Republican, later Jacksonian and National Republican politician and fifth governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1829–1831).
Life and politics
Moore was born in Stokes County, North ...
(1818) Madison County
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John W. Walker (1818) Madison County
After statehood
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James Dellett (1819) Monroe County Whig
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George W. Owen 1820–1821) Monroe County
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James Dellett (1821)
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Arthur P. Bagby (1822–1823) Monroe County
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Samuel W. Oliver (1823) Conecuh Country, resigned
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William I. Adair (1824) Madison County
*Samuel Walker (1824) Madison County
*William Kelly (1825–1826) Madison County
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Samuel W. Oliver ((1826–1828) Conecuh County
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Clement C. Clay (1828–1829) Madison County
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John Gayle (Alabama politician)
John Gayle (September 11, 1792 – July 21, 1859) was the 7th Governor of Alabama, a United States representative from Alabama, a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for t ...
(1829–1830) Green County
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James Penn (1830–1832) Madison County
*Samuel W. Oliver (1832–1835), second stint
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James W. McClung (1835–1836) Madison County
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Arthur P. Bagby (1836–1837), second stint
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James W. McClung (1837–1839)
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John Dennis Phelan (1839–1840)
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Samuel Walker (Alabama politician)
*Robert A. Baker (1841), special session
*David Moore (1841) Madison County
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John Erwin (1842–1843) Greene County
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Andrew B. Moore (1843–1845)
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LeRoy Pope Walker (1847–1850) Lauderdale County
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John D. Rather (1851–1853) Morgan County
*William Garrett (1853–1854) Coosa County
*Richard W. Walker (1855–1856) Lauderdale County
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Crawford M. Jackson (1857–1858) Autauga County
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Alexander B. Meek (1859-1860 Mobile County
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Walter H. Crenshaw (1861–1865), Mobile County, also served as President of the Alabama Senate
*Thomas B. Cooper (1865–1867) Cherokee County
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B. B. McCraw Chambers County - Republican Party
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George F. Harrington (1868–1870) Mobile County - Republican
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John P. Hubbard (1870–1872) Pike County - Democrat
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Lewis M. Stone (1872–1873) Pickens County - Democrat
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Lewis E. Parsons (1872–1873) Coosa County - Republican
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Decatur C. Anderson (1874–1876) Mobile County - Democrat
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Newton Clements (1876–1877) Tuscaloosa County - Democrat
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David Clopton (1878–1879) Montgomery County - Democrat
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Nathaniel H. R. Dawson (1880–1881)
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Wilbur F. Foster (1882–1883) Macon County - Democrat, helped found Tuskegee Institute as a Normal School to train black teachers
*Henry Clay Armstrong (1884–1885) Lee County, Democrat
*Thomas G. Jones (1886–1887) Montgomery County - Democrat
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Clement Clay Shorter (1888–1889) Barbour County - Democrat
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Newton Clemonts (1890–1891)
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Francis L. Pettus (1892–1893) Dallas County
*Thomas H. Clark (1894–1895) Montgomery County
*Newtown Coemonts (1896–1897), second stint
*Charles E. Waller (1898–1899) Hale County - Democrat
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Francis L. Pettus
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Alfred M. Tunstall (1903) Hale County - Democrat
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Charles C. Adams (Alabama politician)
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Roberts H. Brown
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William L. Martin
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Archibald H. Carmichael (February 26, 1907 – January 10, 1911)
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Edward B. Almon (1911)
*Archibald H. Carmichael, second term as speaker (January 12, 1915 – January 14, 1919)
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Henry P. Merritt (1919) Macon County - Democrat
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Seybourn A. Lynne (1920–1921) Morgan County - Democrat
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Hugh D. Merrill (1923–1927) Calhoun County - Democrat
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J. Lee Long (1927) Butler County - Democrat
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Alfred M. Tunstall (1931–1935)
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Robert H. Walker (1935–1937) Limestone County
*Hugh Davis Merrill (1939), second stint
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George O. Miller (1942–1943) Sumpter County - Democrat
*Charles D. Norman (1945) Bullock County - Democrat
*William M. Beck (1947–1949) DeKalb County - Democrat
*Roberts H. Brown (1951–1953) Lee County - Democrat
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Rankin Fite
Ernest Rankin Fite (September 1, 1916 – November 6, 1980) was an Alabama state legislator and attorney.
Biography
Fite was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Ernest Baxter and Minnie Watt Fite. His grandfather, Bloomer Rankin Fite, established a ...
(1955–1957) Marion County - Democrat
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Charles C. Adams (Alabama politician) Tallapoosa County - Democrat
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Virgis M. Ashworth (1961) Bibb County - Democrat
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Albert Brewer (1963–1967) Morgan County - Democrat
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Rankin Fite
Ernest Rankin Fite (September 1, 1916 – November 6, 1980) was an Alabama state legislator and attorney.
Biography
Fite was born in Montgomery, Alabama to Ernest Baxter and Minnie Watt Fite. His grandfather, Bloomer Rankin Fite, established a ...
(1967–1971), second stint
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G. Sage Lyons (1971–1975) Mobile County - Democrat
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Joe McCorquodale (1975–1983) Clarke County - Democrat
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Tom Drake Cullman County - Democrat
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James S. Clark (1987–1999) Barber County - Democrat
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Seth Hammett (1999 – November 3, 2010) Covington County - Democrat
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Mike Hubbard (November 3, 2010 – June 10, 2016) Lee County - Republican
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Victor Gaston (June 10, 2016 – August 15, 2016) Acting Speaker - Republican
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Mac McCutcheon (August 15, 2016 – November 9, 2022) Madison County - Republican
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Nathaniel Ledbetter, current, DeKalb County - Republican
See also
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President of the Alabama Senate
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