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Rhode Island: House Speakers

Speakers of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives, 1797-2010 (May be incomplete!)
Archibald Crary 1797 George Champlin 1797-98 William Bradford 1798-1802 Elisha R. Potter 1802 Constant Taber 1802-05 Isaac Wilbour 1805-06 Elisha R. Potter 1806-09 William Jones 1809-10 Nathaniel Hazard 1810 William Jones 1810-11 William Hunter 1811-12 James B. Mason 1812-14 James Burrill, Jr. 1814-16 Benjamin Hazard 1816-18 Nathaniel Hazard 1818-19 James De Wolf 1819-21 Albert C. Greene 1821 Elisha Mathewson 1821 Albert C. Greene 1821-22 Elisha Mathewson 1822 Albert C. Greene 1822-25 Nathaniel Bullock 1825-26 Samuel W. Bridgham 1826 Nathan B. Sprague 1826-27 Job Durfee 1827-29 Joseph L. Tillinghast 1829-32 William Sprague 1832-35 Henry Y. Cranston 1835 Christopher Allen 1835-36 Samuel Y. Atwell 1836-37 George Curtis 1837-39 Henry Y. Cranston 1839-41 Charles Jackson 1841-42 Richard K. Randolph 1842 Alfred Bosworth 1842-44 Samuel Ames 1844-45 George G. King 1845-46 Robert B. Cranston 1846-47 William S. Patten 1847-48 Sylvester G. Shearman 1848-49 James C. Hidden 1849-51 Alfred Bosworth 1851-53 Thomas Steere 1853-54 Benjamin F. Thurston 1854 Henry Y. Cranston 1854 Sylvester G. Shearman 1854-55 Henry Y. Cranston 1855 Benjamin Fessenden 1855-56 Benjamin F. Thurston 1856-57 Sullivan Ballou 1857-58 Charles C. Van Zandt 1858-59 Wingate Hayes 1859-60 Caesar A. Updike 1860-62 Francis W. Miner 1862-63 Thomas Durfee 1863-64 Benjamin F. Thurston 1864-65 Alexander Farnum 1865 George L. Clarke 1865-66 Charles C. Van Zandt 1866-69 Benjamin T. Eames 1869-70 Amos Barstow 1870-71 Charles C. Van Zandt 1871-73 Edwin Metcalf 1873-74 Edward L. Freeman 1874-76 Nelson W. Aldrich 1876-77 Dexter B. Potter 1877-79 Henry J. Spooner 1879-81 John P. Sanborn 1881-82 Francello G. Jillson 1883-85 Ellery H. Wilson 1885-87 Charles E. Gorman 1887-88 George H. Utter 1888-89 Augustus S. Miller 1889-91 Adin B. Capron 1891-93 Franklin P. Owen 1893-94 Samuel W. K. Allen 1894-97 J. Edward Studley 1897-98 Frank E. Holden 1898-1901 James H. Armington 1901-03 Joseph P. Burlingame 1903-06 Arthur W. Dennis 1906-07 Roswell B. Burchard 1907-11 William C. Bliss 1911-12 Ambrose Kennedy 1912-13 Frank F. Davis 1913-15 Frank H. Hammill 1915-19 Arthur P. Summer 1919-20 William R. Fortin 1920-23 Philip C. Joslin 1923-27 Roy Rawlings 1927-33 William E. Reddy 1933-37 James H. Kiernan 1937-39 Hugo A. Clason 1939-41 Harry F. Curvin 1941-64 Alfred U. Menard 1964-65 John J. Wrenn 1965-69 Joseph A. Bevilacqua 1969-76 John J. Skiffington, Jr. 1976-77 Edward P. Manning 1977-80 Matthew J. Smith 1980-88 Joseph DeAngelis 1988-92 John B. Harwood 1993-2002 William J. Murphy 2003-10 Gordon D. Fox 2010-

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