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Speakers of the House of Representatives

Name the people who have served as the people of the U.S. House.
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Party
 
Answer
1789-1791
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PA
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
1791-1793
Federalist
CT
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
1793-1795
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PA
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
1795-1799
Federalist
NJ
Jonathan Dayton
1799-1801
Federalist
MA
Theodore Sedgwick
1801-1807
Democratic-Republican
NC
Nathaniel Macon
1807-1811
Democratic-Republican
MA
Joseph Bradley Varnum
1811-1814
Democratic-Republican
KY
Henry Clay
1814-1815
Republican
SC
Langdon Cheves
1815-1820
Democratic-Republican
KY
Henry Clay
1820-1821
Republican
NY
John W. Taylor
1821-1823
Republican
VA
Philip Pendleton Barbour
1823-1825
Democratic-Republican
KY
Henry Clay
1825-1827
Republican
NY
John W. Taylor
1827-1834
Jacksonian
VA
Andrew Stevenson
1834-1835
Democrat
TN
John Bell
1835-1839
Democrat
TN
James Polk
1839-1841
Democrat
VA
Robert M.T. Hunter
1841-1843
Whig
KY
John White
1843-1845
Democrat
VA
John Winston Jones
1845-1847
Democrat
IN
John Wesley Davis
1847-1849
Whig
MA
Robert Charles Winthrop
1849-1851
Democrat
GA
Howell Cobb
1851-1855
Democrat
KY
Linn Boyd
1855-1857
American
MA
Nathaniel Prentice Banks
1857-1859
Democrat
SC
James Lawrence Orr
1859-1861
Republican
NJ
William Pennington
1861-1863
Republican
PA
Galusha A. Grow
1863-1869
Republican
IN
Schuyler Colfax
1869
Republican
NY
Theodore Medad Pomeroy
1869-1875
Republican
ME
James G. Blaine
1875-1876
Democrat
IN
Michael Crawford Kerr
1876-1881
Democrat
PA
Samuel Jackson Randall
1881-1883
Republican
OH
Joseph Warren Keifer
1883-1889
Democrat
KY
John Griffin Carlisle
1889-1891
Republican
ME
Thomas Brackett Reed
1891-1895
Democrat
GA
Charles Frederick Crisp
1895-1899
Republican
ME
Thomas Brackett Reed
1899-1903
Republican
IA
David B. Henderson
1903-1911
Republican
IL
Joseph Gurney Cannon
1911-1919
Democrat
MO
James Beauchamp Clark
1919-1925
Republican
MA
Frederick Gillett
1925-1931
Republican
OH
Nicholas Longworth
1931-1933
Democrat
TX
John Nance Garner
1933-1935
Democrat
IL
Henry T. Rainey
1935-1936
Democrat
TN
Joseph Wellington Byrns
1936-1940
Democrat
AL
William Brockman Bankhead
1940-1947
Democrat
TX
Samuel T. Rayburn
1947-1949
Republican
MA
Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
1949-1953
Democrat
TX
Samuel T. Rayburn
1953-1955
Republican
MA
Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
1955-1961
Democrat
TX
Samuel T. Rayburn
1962-1971
Republican
MA
Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
1971-1977
Democrat
TX
Samuel T. Rayburn
1977-1987
Democrat
MA
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.
1987-1989
Democrat
TX
James C. Wright, Jr.
1989-1995
Democrat
WA
Thomas S. Foley
1995-1999
Republican
GA
Newt Gingrich
1999-2007
Democrat
IL
J. Dennis Hastert
2007-2011
Democrat
CA
Nancy Pelosi
2011-2015
Republican
OH
John Boehner
2015-2019
Republican
WI
Paul Ryan
2019-2023
Democrat
CA
Nancy Pelosi
2023
Republican
CA
Kevin McCarthy
2023-present
Republican
LA
Mike Johnson
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McCormack was speaker from 1962-1971, not Martin.