List of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives

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Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives
Alaskan state seal
Incumbent Cathy Tilton since January 18, 2023
Formation	1913
First holder	Earnest B. Collins

This is a list of speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives. The speaker is the presiding officer of the Alaska House of Representatives. This list covers both the territorial House (convened mostly biennially between 1913 and 1957) and the state House (convened annually since 1959).

Speakers

Territorial House

No.	Name	Party	Hometown	Division	Term	Legislatures
1	Earnest B. Collins	Republican	Fox	4th	1913 – 1917	First, Second
2	Luther C. Hess	Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1917 – 1919	Third
3	E. J. White	Democratic	Juneau	1st	1919 – 1921	Fourth
4	Andrew Nerland	Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1921 – 1923	Fifth
5	Cash Cole	Republican	Juneau	1st	1923 – 1925	Sixth
6	C. H. Wilcox	Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1925 – 1927	Seventh
7	Sumner S. Smith	Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1927 – 1929	Eighth
8	R. C. Rothenburg	Independent Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1929 – 1931	Ninth
9	Grover C. Winn	Republican	Juneau	1st	1931 – 1933	Tenth
10	Joe McDonald	Democratic	Ester Creek	4th	1933 – 1935	Eleventh
11	Joseph S. Hofman	Democratic	Seward	3rd	1935 – 1937	Twelfth
12	Joe Green	Democratic	Hyder	1st	1937 – 1939	Thirteenth
13	Howard Lyng	Democratic	Nome	2nd	1939 – 1941	Fourteenth
14	Herbert H. McCutcheon	Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1941 – 1943	Fifteenth
15	James V. Davis	Democratic	Juneau	1st	1943 – 1945	Sixteenth
16	Jesse D. Lander	Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1945 – 1947	Seventeenth
17	Oscar S. Gill	Republican	Anchorage	3rd	1947 – 1949	Eighteenth
18	Stanley McCutcheon	Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1949 – 1951	Nineteenth
19	William A. Egan	Democratic	Valdez	3rd	1951 – 1953	Twentieth
20	George Miscovich	Republican	Fairbanks	4th	1953 – 1955	Twenty-First
21	Wendell P. Kay	Democratic	Anchorage	3rd	1955 – 1957	Twenty-Second
22	Richard J. Greuel	Democratic	Fairbanks	4th	1957 – 1959	Twenty-Third

State House

No.	Name	Party	Hometown	District	Term	Legislatures
1	Warren A. Taylor	Democratic	Fairbanks	19	1959 – 1963	First, Second
2	Bruce Kendall	Republican	Anchorage	8	1963 – 1965	Third
3	Mike Gravel	Democratic	Anchorage	8	1965 – 1967	Fourth
4	William K. Boardman	Republican	Ketchikan	1	1967 – 1969	Fifth
5	Jalmar M. Kerttula	Democratic	Palmer	7	1969 – 1971	Sixth
6	Gene Guess	Democratic	Anchorage	8	1971 – 1973	Seventh
7	Tom Fink	Republican	Anchorage	8	1973 – 1975	Eighth
8	Mike Bradner	Democratic	Fairbanks	20	1975 – 1977	Ninth
9	Hugh Malone	Democratic	Kenai	13	1977 – 1979	Tenth
10	Terry Gardiner	Democratic	Ketchikan	1	1979 – 1981	Eleventh
11	Jim Duncan	Democratic	Juneau	4	1981 – 1981	Twelfth
12	Joseph L. Hayes	Republican (Tri-Partisan Coalition)	Anchorage	12, 9	1981 – 1985	Twelfth, Thirteenth
13	Ben F. Grussendorf	Democratic	Sitka	3	1985 – 1989	Fourteenth, Fifteenth
14	Samuel R. Cotten	Democratic	Eagle River	15	1989 – 1991	Sixteenth
15	Ben F. Grussendorf	Democratic	Sitka	3	1991 – 1993	Seventeenth
16	Ramona L. Barnes	Republican (Republican majority coalition)	Anchorage	22	1993 – 1995	Eighteenth
17	Gail Phillips	Republican	Homer	7	1995 – 1999	Nineteenth, Twentieth
18	Brian Porter	Republican	Anchorage	20	1999 – 2003	Twenty-First, Twenty-Second
19	Pete Kott	Republican	Eagle River	17	2003 – 2005	Twenty-Third
20	John Harris	Republican	Valdez	12	2005 – 2009	Twenty-Fourth, Twenty-Fifth
21	Mike Chenault	Republican	Nikiski	34	2009 – 2017	Twenty-Sixth, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth, Twenty-Ninth
22	Bryce Edgmon	Democratic	Dillingham	37	2017 – 2021	Thirtieth, Thirty-first
22	Bryce Edgmon	Independent (Democratic majority coalition)	Dillingham	37	2017 – 2021	Thirtieth, Thirty-first
23	Louise Stutes	Republican (Democratic majority coalition)	Kodiak	32	2021 – 2023	Thirty-second
23	Cathy Tilton	Republican (Republican majority coalition)	Wasilla	26	2023 – present	Thirty-third

External links

Alaska State Legislature Roster of Members 1913–2013 (PDF) (Centennial ed.). Juneau: Alaska Legislative Affairs Agency. 2013. — contains photos of most speakers

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v t e Speakers of the Alaska House of Representatives
Territorial (1912–59)	Collins Hess White Nerland Cole Wilcox Smith Rothenburg Winn McDonald Hofman Green Lyng H. McCutcheon Davis Lander Gill S. McCutcheon Egan Miscovich Kay Greuel
State (since 1959)	Taylor Kendall Gravel Boardman Kerttula Guess Fink Bradner Malone Gardiner Duncan Hayes Grussendorf Cotten Grussendorf Barnes Phillips Porter Kott Harris Chenault Edgmon Patkotak (Acting) Stutes Tilton

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