The Political Graveyard: California: Assembly Speakers

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California: Assembly Speakers

Speakers of the California State Assembly, 1856-2010 (May be incomplete!)
James T. Farley 1856 Edward A. Stevenson 1860 Frank L. Coombs 1891 Frank H. Gould 1893 Frank L. Coombs 1897 Frank C. Prescott 1905-06 Arthur Hathaway Hewitt 1911-12 C. C. Young 1913-18 Henry W. Wright 1919-22 Frank F. Merriam 1923-26 Edgar C. Levey 1927-32 Walter J. Little 1933-34 Forsythe Charles Clowdsley 1934 Edward Craig 1935 William Moseley Jones 1937-38 Paul Peek 1939 Gordon Hickman Garland 1940-42 Charles W. Lyon 1943-46 Sam L. Collins 1947-52 James W. Silliman 1953-54 Luther H. Lincoln 1955-58 Ralph M. Brown 1959-61 Jesse M. Unruh 1962-68 Bob Monagan 1969-70 Bob Moretti 1971-74 Leo T. McCarthy 1974-80 Willie L. Brown, Jr. 1981-95 Antonio R. Villaraigosa 1990 Doris Allen 1995 Brian Setencich 1995-96 Cruz Bustamante 1997-98 Herb J. Wesson, Jr. 2000 Karen R. Bass 2008-10

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