List of Speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives

The following is a List of Speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives, a position that was created with the state's constitution in 1889.[1] The term indicated is the year of the legislative session in which the individual served as speaker. It is customary for the Speaker to serve for only one session. The Speaker is chosen from the party that has the majority in the given session.

#	Name	Term	Party	District
1	David B. Wellman	1889	Republican	22
2	William B. Allen	1891	Republican	25
3	George H. Walsh	1893	Republican	6
4	James C. Gill	1895	Republican	11
5	Erastus A. Williams	1897	Republican	27
6	Thomas Baker, Jr.	1899	Republican	9
7	Robert M. Pollock	1901	Republican	9
8	Thomas Baker, Jr.	1903	Republican	9
9	George Piercy	1905	Republican	23
10	Treadwell Twichell	1907	Republican	10
11	Usher L. Burdick	1909	Republican	18
12	James M. Hanley	1911	Republican	30
13	John H. Fraine	1913	Republican	4
14	Alfred P. Hanson	1915	Republican	38
15	Howard R. Wood	1917	Republican	29
16	L. L. Stair	1919	Republican	28
17	Luther L. Twichell	1921	Republican	9
18	Roy Johnson	1923	Republican	10
19	Ben C. Larkin	1925	Republican	32
20	John W. Carr	1927	Republican	23
21	Edwin Traynor	1929	Republican	21
22	Charles V. Freeman	1931	Republican	6
23	Minnie D. Craig[2]	1933	Republican-NPL	20
24	William Crockett	1935	Republican-NPL	18
25	Math Dahl	1937	Republican-NPL	26
26	Oscar W. Hagen	1939	Republican-NPL	41
27	Earl D. Symington	1941	Republican	1
28	Ralph Beede	1943	Republican	47
29	A. R. Bergesen	1945	Republican	9
30	Vernon M. Johnson	1947	Republican	12
31	Palmer Levin	1949	Republican	3
32	Leo Sticka	1951	Republican	31
33	Walter Bubel	1953	Republican	48
34	Kenneth A. Fitch	1955	Republican	9
35	Ben J. Wolf	1957	Republican	36
36	Hjalmar C. Nygaard	1959	Republican	14
37	R. Fay Brown	1961	Republican	27
38	Stanley Saugstad	1963	Republican	29
39	Arthur A. Link	1965	Democratic-NPL	41
40	Gordon S. Aamoth	1967	Republican	21
41	Ernest Norman Johnson	1969	Republican	23
42	Howard Bier	1971	Republican	31
43	Art Bunker	1973	Republican	21
44	Robert F. Reimers	1975	Republican	29
45	Oscar Solberg	1977	Democratic-NPL	9
46	Vernon E. Wagner	1979	Republican	47
47	James A. Peterson	1981	Republican	40
48	Patricia Kelly	1983	Democratic-NPL	21
49	Roy Hausauer	1985	Republican	25
50	Richard Kloubec	1987	Republican	51
51	William Kretschmar	1989	Republican	28
52	Ronald A. Anderson	1991	Republican	39
53	Rick Berg	1993	Republican	45
54	Clarence Martin	1995	Republican	55
55	Mike Timm	1997	Republican	5
56	Francis J. Wald	1999	Republican	37
57	LeRoy G. Bernstein	2001	Republican	45
58	Janet Wentz	2003	Republican	3
59	Matthew Klein	2005	Republican	40
60	Jeff Delzer	2007	Republican	8
61	David Monson	2009	Republican	10
62	David Drovdal	2011	Republican	39
63	Bill Devlin	2013	Republican	23
64	Wesley Belter	2015	Republican	22
65	Larry Bellew	2017	Republican	38
66	Lawrence Klemin	2019	Republican	47

Notes

1. North Dakota Blue Book, 1989
2. Minnie Craig was the first female head of any legislative body in American history Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• State of North Dakota official website