List of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia

The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia is the presiding officer of the legislature. In the current house, the speaker is elected by the house for the term of the legislature, six years.[1] The Speaker may be removed from their position by a two-thirds majority. A Deputy Speaker is also elected, and, in the event of a vacancy in the speakership, serves as Speaker until the election of a replacement, which is to occur within sixty days. The Speaker is also responsible for appointing members to House Committees. This article lists the presiding officers of Liberia's lower house, which has been most often known as the House of Representatives.

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List

This is an incomplete list of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name Took office Left office Notes
James B. McGill 1848 1848 [2][3]
Daniel Bashiel Warner 1848 1849 [2]
Edward James Roye 1849 1850 [2]
Charles Henry 1850 1851 [2]
Beverly R. Wilson 1851 1853 [2]
Beverly V. R. James 1853 ? [2]
H. W. Erskine ? 1855 [4]
James M. Moore 1855 1856 [2][5]
Mathew A. Rand 1856 1857 - ? [2][6]
Robert H. Marshall 1859 1860 [2]
Anthony William Gardner 1860 1861 [2]
Ezra W. Wright December 1861 ? [2]
Henry Wesley Dennis 1863 1864 - ? [2][7]
Augustus Washington 1865 1869 [2]
William Spencer Anderson 1869 1871 [2]
D. F. Wilson 1871 1873 - ? [2][8]
Nathan E. Dixon 1876 1877 [2]
William David Coleman 1877 1879 [9][2]
A. J. Woods ? ? [2]
Dixon B. Brown ? ? [2]
William Draper ? ? [2]
Edward Lyles ? ? [2]
Henry B. Whitfield ? ? [2]
Daniel E. MacFarland ? ? [2]
Alexander Glen Tubman ? ? [2]
R. B. Richardson 1895 1896 - ? [10]
J. C. Johnson 1897 1898 [2]
Robert H. Marshall ? 1900 [11]
D. R. Worrell 1900 1901 [2]
James A. Toliver ? - 1903 1906 - ?
Samuel Alfred Ross 1907 ? [2]
J. J. Ellis ? - 1910 1910 - ? [2]
T. A. McCarthy ? - 1912 1912 - ? [12]
John Gottlieb A. Richards 1918 1919 [2]
Philip J. L. Brumskine 1919 1923 [2]
Stephen Allen Liberty ?-1925 1929 [2]
John N. Lewis 1929 1931 [2]
Clarence Lorenzo Simpson 1931 1934 [2]
Richard Wiles 1935 1936 [2]
Richard Wiles 1940 1940 [2]
Richard Wiles 1942 1945 [2]
Benjamin Green Freeman 1943 1951 [2]
Richard Abrom Henries, Sr. 1952 12 April 1980 [13][14][2]

This is a list of Speakers of the Interim National Assembly:

Name Took office Left office Notes
Nicholas Podier 1984 1984

This is a list of Presidents of the Interim National Assembly:

Name Took office Left office Notes
Samuel Doe 26 July 1984 1985 [15]

This is a list of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name Took office Left office Notes
Samuel Dualu Hill 1986 1990 [16][2]

This is a list of Speakers of the Interim National Assembly (ILA):

Name Took Office Left Office Notes
Bismarck Kuyon ? - 1992 1993 [17]

This is a list of Speakers of the Transitional National Assembly (TLA):

Name Took Office Left Office Notes
Morris Dukuly 11 March 1994 February 1997 [18]
Lusinee Kamara 27 February 1997 1997

This is a list of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name Took Office Left Office Notes
Nyudueh Morkonmana 1997 2003 [2][19]

This is a list of Speakers of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly of Liberia (NTLA):

Name Took Office Left Office Notes
George Dweh 20 October 2003 14 March 2005 [20]
George Koukou 17 March 2005 January 2006 [20]

This is a list of Speakers of the House of Representatives of Liberia:

Name Took Office Left Office Notes
Edwin Melvin Snowe 13 January 2006 18 January 2007 [21]
? 18 January 2007 29 January 2007
Edwin Melvin Snowe 29 January 2007 15 February 2007 [22]
Alex J. Tyler 7 April 2007 27 September 2016 [23][22][24]
James Emmanuel Nuquay October 2016 15 January 2018 [22]
Bhofal Chambers 15 January 2018 Incumbent [25]

References
  1. Captan, Monie R. (13 April 2016). Introduction to Liberian Government and Political System. Lulu Press, Inc. ISBN 9781483448787 – via Google Books.
  2. Dunn, D. Elwood (4 May 2011). The Annual Messages of the Presidents of Liberia 1848–2010: State of the Nation Addresses to the National Legislature. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783598441691 – via Google Books.
  3. African Repository and Colonial Journal. 1849 https://books.google.com/books?id=LKAoAAAAYAAJ. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "The African repository and colonial journal 31 (1855)". HathiTrust.
  5. "The African Repository". 1856.
  6. "The African Repository". 1857.
  7. "The African repository and colonial journal 40 (1864)". HathiTrust.
  8. "The African Repository". 1873.
  9. Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (20 December 2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9781461659310 – via Google Books.
  10. Heard, William H. (William Henry) (August 30, 1898). "The bright side of African life". Philadelphia, A. M. E. publishing house – via Internet Archive.
  11. https://books.google.fi/books?hl=fi&id=F8swAQAAIAAJ
  12. https://books.google.fi/books?id=lek-AQAAIAAJ
  13. Liberia Stories, April 2005
  14. http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/57481391205378858/wbg-archives-1772841.pdf
  15. Europa World Year Book 1985
  16. Liberia: the heart of darkness: account of Liberia's civil war
  17. The professor: A documentary short by Jason Price
  18. Former speaker to seek sensational seat?
  19. vips
  20. LIBERIA: Appeals for calm amid parliament corruption row. IRIN, March 17, 2005
  21. IPU PARLINE database: LIBERIA (House of Representatives). Last elections
  22. Sonpon, Leroy M.; III (11 September 2018). "Speaker Chambers Survives Ouster Attempts?".
  23. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2009-05-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Tyler Is New Speaker of the House. Liberia Broadcasting System, April 6, 2007
  24. Johnson, Thomas T. (28 September 2016). "Speaker No Longer".
  25. "IPU PARLINE database: LIBERIA (House of Representatives), General information". archive.ipu.org.
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