Speakers of the House Quiz

How many Speakers of the House in US history can you name?
The first three are marked as independent since parties were not yet established
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Years Served and Party
Speaker Name
1789-1791, 1793-1795, Independent
Frederick Muhlenberg
1791-1793, Independent
Johnathan Trumbull
1795-1799, Federalist
Jonathan Dayton
1799-1801, Federalist
Theodore Sedgwick
1801-1807, Democratic-Republican
Nathaniel Macon
1807-1811, Democratic-Republican
Joseph Bradley Varnum
1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1823-1825, Democratic-Republican
Henry Clay
1814-1815, Democratic-Republican
Langdon Cheves
1820-1821, 1825-1827 Democratic-Republican, National Republican
John Taylor
1821-1823, Democratic-Republican
Philip Pendleton Barbour
1827-1833, Jacksonian Democrat
Andrew Stevenson
1834-1835, Jacksonian Democrat
John Bell
1835-1839, Jacksonian Democrat, Democrat
James Polk
1839-1841, Whig
Robert Hunter
1841-1843, Whig
John White
1843-1845, Democrat
John Jones
1845-1847, Democrat
John Davis
1847,1849, Whig
Robert Winthrop
1849-1851, Democrat
Howell Cobb
1851-1855, Democrat
Linn Boyd
1855-1857, Know Nothing
Nathaniel Banks
1857-1859, Democrat
James Orr
1860-1861, Republican
William Pennington
1861-1863, Republican
Galusha Grow
1863-1869, Republican
Schuyler Colfax
1869, Republican
Theodore Pomeroy
1869-1875, Republican
James Blaine
1875,1876, Democrat
Michael Kerr
Years Served and Party
Speaker Name
1876-1881, Democrat
Samuel Randall
1881-1883, Republican
J. Warren Keifer
1883-1889, Democrat
John Carlisle
1889-1891, 1895-1899, Republican
Thomas Reed
1891-1895, Democrat
Charles Crisp
1899-1903, Republican
David Henderson
1903-1911, Republican
Joseph Cannon
1911-1919, Democrat
Champ Clark
1919-1925, Republican
Frederick Gillett
1925-1931, Republican
Nicholas Longworth
1931-1933, Democrat
John Nance Garner
1933-1934, Democrat
Henry Rainey
1935-1936, Democrat
Jo Byrns
1936-1940, Democrat
William Bankhead
1940-1947, 1949-1953, 1955-1961 Democrat
Sam Rayburn
1947-1949, 1953-1955, Republican
Joseph Martin
1962-1971, Democrat
John McCormack
1971-1977, Democrat
Carl Albert
1977-1987, Democrat
Tip O'Neill
1987-1989, Democrat
Jim Wright
1989-1995, Democrat
Tom Foley
1995-1999, Republican
Newt Gingrich
1999-2007, Republican
Dennis Hastert
2007-2011, 2019-2023, Democrat
Nancy Pelosi
2011-2015, Republican
John Boehner
2015-2019
Paul Ryan
2023-Present, Republican
Kevin McCarthy
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