Famous Speakers of the House

Can you name these well-known and recent Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives from the clues given?

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Speakership	Home State	Clue	Speaker
1789-1791, 1793-1795	Pennsylvania	First Speaker	Frederick Muhlenberg
1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1823-1825	Kentucky	Unsuccesfully ran for president 3 times; member of the "Great Triumvirate"	Henry Clay
1834-1835	Tennessee	Ran for president on the Constitutional Union ticket in 1860	John Bell
1835-1839	Tennessee	Only Speaker to be elected president	James K. Polk
1863-1869	Indiana	Grant's first Vice President; involved in the Crédit Mobilier scandal	Schuyler Colfax
1869-1875	Maine	Leader of the Half-Breeds who lost the 1884 election to Cleveland, when he was called the "continental liar from the state of Maine"	James G. Blaine
1931-1933	Texas	Franklin D. Roosevelt's 2-term Vice President	John Nance Garner
1940-1947, 1949-1953,1955-1961	Texas	Longest-serving Speaker; mentor to LBJ who helped pass some Civil Rights legislation	Sam Rayburn
1977-1987	Massachusetts	Reagan said he and this man were friends "after 6 pm"	Tip O'Neill
1989-1995	Washington	Passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Brady Bill, and NAFTA implementation; only Speaker to be defeated in a re-election campaign	Tom Foley
1995-1999	Georgia	First Republican Speaker in 40 years; architect of the "Contract With America"; undermined political decorum	Newt Gingrich
1999-2007	Illinois	Imprisoned for molesting children as a high school wrestling coach	Dennis Hastert
2007-2011, 2019-present	California	Current Speaker and first female Speaker; passed Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank; impeached Trump	Nancy Pelosi
2011-2015	Ohio	Contributed to the 2013 government shutdown due to opposition to funding the Affordable Care Act; resigned due to conservative opposition	John Boehner
2015-2019	Wisconsin	Mitt Romney's running mate; passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act	Paul Ryan