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Speaker of New Hampshire House of Representatives
Incumbent
Sherman Packard
since January 6, 2021
StatusPresiding officer
SeatNew Hampshire State House, Concord
AppointerNew Hampshire House of Representatives
Inaugural holderRichard Waldron Jr.

The following is a list of speakers of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from colonial period and since statehood in 1788.

Colonial period

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2023)
Speaker Term Party Residence Notes
Richard Waldron Jr. 1684–1692 Portsmouth
Richard Martin 1692 Portsmouth
John Gilman 1692–1693 Exeter
John Pickering 1693–1695 Portsmouth
George Jaffrey 1695–1696 Portsmouth
John Plaisted 1696–1697 Portsmouth
John Pickering 1697–1698 Portsmouth
Henry Dow 1698 Hampton
John Pickering 1698–1699 Portsmouth
Samuel Penhallow 1699–1702 Portsmouth
John Pickering 1702 Portsmouth
Daniel Tilton 1702–1703 Hampton
John Pickering 1703–1709 Portsmouth
Mark Hunking 1709–1710 Portsmouth
Richard Garrish 1710–1717 Portsmouth
John Plaisted 1717 Portsmouth
Thomas Packer 1717–1719 Portsmouth
Joshua Pierce 1719–1722 Portsmouth
Peter Weare 1722–1727 Hampton Falls
Nathaniel Weare 1727–1728 Hampton Falls
Andrew Wiggin 1728–1745 Stratham
Nathaniel Rogers 1745 Portsmouth
Ebenezer Stevens 1745–1749 Kingston
Richard Waldron 1749–1752 Hampton
Meshech Weare 1752–1755 Hampton Falls
Peter Sherburne 1755–1765 Portsmouth
Peter Gilman 1765–1771 Exeter
John Wentworth 1771–1776 Somersworth
Phillips White 1776 South Hampton
John Langdon 1776–1782 Portsmouth
John Dudley 1782–1784 Raymond
George Atkinson 1784–1785 Portsmouth
John Sullivan 1785–1786 Durham
John Langdon 1786–1787 Portsmouth
John Sparhawk 1787 Portsmouth

Since statehood

Speaker Term Party Residence Notes
Thomas Bartlett 1787–1791 Nottingham
William Plumer 1791–1793 Epping
Nathaniel Peabody 1793–1794 Atkinson
John Prentice 1794–1795 Langdon
Russell Freeman 1795–1797 Hanover
William Plumer 1797–1798 Epping
John Prentice 1798–1805 Langdon
Samuel Bell 1805–1807 Chester
Charles Cutts 1807–1809 Portsmouth
George B. Upham 1809–1810 Claremont
Charles Cutts 1810–1811 Portsmouth
Clement Storer 1811–1813 Portsmouth
Thomas W. Thompson 1813–1815 Concord
George B. Upham 1815–1816 Claremont
David L. Morrill 1816–1817 Concord
Henry B. Chase 1817–1818 Warner
Matthew Harvey 1818–1821 Hopkinton
Ichabod Bartlett 1821–1822 Dover
Charles Woodman 1822–1823 Bridgwater
Andrew Pierce 1823 Democratic Dover
Edmund Parker 1823–1825 Democratic Nashua
Levi Woodbury 1825 Democratic Portsmouth
Henry Hubbard 1825–1828 Democratic Charlestown
James Wilson Jr. 1828–1829 Democratic Keene
James B. Thornton 1827–1829 Democratic Merrimack
Samuel Webster 1829–1831 Democratic Kingston
Franklin Pierce 1831–1833 Democratic Hillsborough
Charles G. Atherton 1835–1837 Democratic Nashua
Ira A. Eastman 1837–1839 Democratic Gilmanton
Moses Norris Jr. 1839–1841 Democratic Pittsfield
John S. Wells 1841–1842 Democratic Lancaster
Samuel Swasey 1842–1844 Democratic Haverhill
Harry Hibbard 1844–1846 Democratic Bath
John P. Hale 1846–1847 Democratic Dover
Moses Norris Jr. 1847–1848 Democratic Pittsfield
Samuel H. Ayer 1848–1850 Hillsborough
Nathaniel B. Baker 1850–1852 Democratic Concord
George W. Kittredge 1852–1853 Democratic Newmarket
Jonathan Everett Sargent 1853–1854 Republican Wentworth
Francis R. Chase 1854–1855 Republican Northfield
John J. Prentiss 1855–1856 Republican Claremont
Edward H. Rollins 1856–1858 Republican Concord
Napolean B. Bryant 1858–1860 Republican Plymouth
Charles H. Bell 1860–1861 Republican Exeter
Edward A. Rollins 1861–1863 Republican Great Falls
William E. Chandler 1863–1865 Republican Concord
Austin F. Pike 1865–1867 Republican Franklin
Simon G. Griffin 1867–1869 Republican Keene
Samuel M. Wheeler 1869–1871 Republican Dover
William H. Gove 1871–1872 Republican Weare
Asa Fowler 1872–1873 Republican Concord
James Emery 1873–1874 Republican Hudson
Albert R. Hatch 1874–1875 Republican Portsmouth
Charles P. Sanborn 1875–1877 Republican Concord
Augustus A. Woolson 1877–1879 Republican Lisbon
Henry H. Huse 1879–1881 Republican Manchester
Chester B. Jordan 1881–1883 Republican Lancaster
Samuel C. Eastman 1883–1885 Republican Concord
Edgar Aldrich 1885–1887 Republican Colebrook
Alvin Burleigh 1887–1889 Republican Plymouth
Hiram D. Upton 1889–1891 Republican Jaffrey
Frank G. Clarke 1891–1893 Republican Peterborough
Robert N. Chamberlain 1893–1895 Republican Berlin
Stephen S. Jewett 1895–1897 Republican Laconia
James F. Briggs 1897–1899 Republican Manchester
Frank D. Currier 1899–1901 Republican Canaan
Cyrus H. Little 1901–1903 Republican Manchester
Harry N. Cheney 1903–1905 Republican Lebanon
Rufus N. Elwell 1905–1907 Republican Exeter
Bertram Ellis 1907–1909 Republican Keene
Frank A. Musgrove 1911–1913 Republican Hanover
William J. Britton 1913–1915 Republican Wolfeboro
Olin H. Chase 1915 Republican Newport
Edwin C. Bean 1915 Republican Belmont
Arthur P. Morrill 1915–1919 Republican Concord
Charles W. Tobey 1919–1921 Republican Temple
Fred A. Jones 1921–1923 Republican Lebanon
William J. Ahern 1923–1925 Democratic Concord
George A. Wood 1925–1927 Republican Portsmouth
Harold K. Davison 1927–1929 Republican Haverhill
George A. Foster 1929–1931 Republican Concord
Harold M. Smith 1931–1933 Republican Portsmouth
Louis P. Elkins 1933–1935 Republican Concord
Amos N. Blandin 1935–1937 Democratic Bath
Oren V. Handerson 1937–1939 Republican Durham
Ansel N. Sanborn 1939–1941 Republican Wakefield
Charles H. Barnard 1941–1943 Republican Manchester
Sherman Adams 1943–1945 Republican Lincoln
Norris Cotton 1945–1947 Republican Lebanon
J. Walker Wiggin 1947–1949 Republican Manchester
Richard F. Upton 1949–1951 Republican Concord
Lane Dwinell 1951–1953 Republican Lebanon
Raymond K. Perkins 1953 Republican Concord
Norman A. McMeekin 1954 Republican Haverhill
Charles Griffin 1955 Republican Lincoln
Doug Scamman Sr. 1957–1958 Republican Stratham
Stewart Lamprey 1959–1965 Republican Moultonborough
Walter R. Peterson Jr. 1965–1969 Republican Peterborough
Marshall W. Cobleigh 1969–1973 Republican Manchester
James E. O'Neill 1973–1975 Republican Chesterfield
George B. Roberts Jr. 1975–1981 Republican Alton
John B. Tucker 1981–1987 Republican Claremont
Doug Scamman Jr. 1987–1990 Republican Stratham
Harold W. Burns 1990–1996 Republican Whitefield
Donna Sytek 1996–2000 Republican Salem
Gene Chandler 2000–2004 Republican Bartlett
Doug Scamman Jr. 2004–2006 Republican Stratham
Terie Norelli 2006–2010 Democratic Portsmouth
William L. O'Brien 2010–2012 Republican Mont Vernon
Terie Norelli 2012–2014 Democratic Portsmouth
Shawn Jasper 2014–2017 Republican Hudson
Gene Chandler 2017–2018 Republican Bartlett
Steve Shurtleff 2018–2020 Democratic Concord
Dick Hinch 2020 Republican Merrimack
Sherman Packard 2021– Republican Londonderry

See also

References

  1. ^ Stark, Robert L. (1965). State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court No. 39 (PDF). Concord, New Hampshire: Department of State of New Hampshire. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
  2. ^ Sharp, Nancy Weatherly; Sharp, James Roger (August 30, 2000). American Legislative Leaders in the Northeast, 1911-1994. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780313032080 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Gardner, William M. (2005). State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court No. 59. Concord, New Hampshire: Department of State of New Hampshire. Retrieved December 15, 2023.
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